Art History
Bachelor of Arts (Degree with Honours)Specialisation (formal)Year: 2020
Art History
Contact information
Coordinator
Mark Erdmann
Email: merdmann@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
Overview
A major in Art History with an average of at least H2A (75%) in second and third-year subjects within the major, or equivalent.
Last updated: 18 December 2020
Structure
100 credit points
Students undertaking pure honours in art history must complete:
- AHIS40023 Art History Thesis Part 1, and AHIS40024 Art History Thesis Part 2 (50 points);
- MULT50001 Research Principles & Practices (*see note below) (12.5 points);
- 37.5 points of subjects, with at least 25 points of subjects from the advanced research in art history list of subjects
Students undertaking combined honours in art history and another discipline must complete:
- AHIS40023 Art History Thesis Part 1, and AHIS40024 Art History Thesis Part 2 (50 points);
- MULT50001 Research Principles & Practices (*see note below) (12.5 points);
- three honours subjects in the combining discipline (37.5 points)
or
- honours thesis in the combining discipline (50 points);
- research methods subject in the combining discipline (12.5 points);
- three subjects from the advanced research in art history list of subjects (37.5 points)
*Note: Students must undertake MULT50001 Research Principles and Practices in the first semester of their Art History Thesis enrolment.
Subject Options
Compulsory subjects:
Note: Art History Thesis requires two consecutive semesters of enrolment.
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
AHIS40023 | Art History Thesis Part 1 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
AHIS40024 | Art History Thesis Part 2 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
MULT50001 | Research Principles and Practices |
Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Advanced research in art history subjects:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
AHIS40006 | Postcolonial Visual Art | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
AHIS40008 | Twentieth-Century Italian Art: 1909-1969 | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
AHIS40013 | Contemporary Art in China | Not available in 2020 | 25 |
AHIS40016 | Aboriginal Art in the Northern Territory | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
AHIS40019 | The Book: Late Antiquity to Renaissance | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
AHIS40020 | Museology in Florence | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
AHIS40005 | Trauma & Spectacle: Postwar European Art | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
AHIS40007 | The Artist's Body | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
AHIS40022 | Studying Contemporary Art Overseas | Not available in 2020 | 25 |
AHIS40002 | Indigenous Australian Art Histories | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
AHIS40015 | Histories and Theories of Conservation | No longer available | |
AHIS90008 | Writing About Art and the Moving Image | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Additional subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
AHIS90005 | History and Philosophy of Museums | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
AHIS90004 | The Print Room | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ACUR90005 | Interpreting Exhibitions | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
AHIS90007 | Biennales, Triennales and Documentas | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Links
http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/study/art-history
Last updated: 18 December 2020