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Art history is housed in the School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology. The first department of its kind in Australia, it was founded in 1948. The School develops joint projects with many Australian museums including the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Students of art history have the opportunity to undertake fieldwork overseas. Subjects taught in Rome and New York provide unrivalled access to major art collections such as those of the Uffizi gallery and the Museum of Modern Art. Alliances with the Potter Institute of Conservation and Ian Potter Museum also bolster the preeminent position of the School within the academic community of the Asia-Pacific region. Students benefit directly from these close links with industry and the arts community and are able to develop a wide range of transferable skills. Graduates of the art history program occupy key curatorial, museum and administrative positions in the arts throughout Australia and overseas. Students have the opportunity to further explore their academic interests and develop specialist knowledge in art history through an articulated structure of higher degree options at the University of Melbourne.
Art history is concerned with the visual and material aspects of culture and how painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, design, photography and museums, may be interpreted. Students of art history should develop critical and historical skills about the work of art as a physical object and the representation of subject matter. Art history subjects cover a broad spectrum from ancient classical art to the art of the postmodern. The School has particular research and teaching strengths in the study of Australian culture and Aboriginal art, the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods and in Asian art, including a unique course on Japanese art and architecture.
There are no prerequisites for first year subjects in art history.
The prerequisite for a second/third year subject in art history is usually a first year subject in art history (12.5 points). Students who believe they have completed suitable alternative first year subjects are advised to consult with the school for permission to enrol. Exemptions may also be granted where second/third year subjects are taken as part of an approved interdepartmental program with its own entry requirements.
The prerequisite for a third/fourth year art history subject is usually three second/third year subjects in art history (37.5 points).
A major in art history usually consists of nine 12.5 point subjects, totalling 112.5 points. It comprises:
two first year subjects in art history (25 points) and;
Second/third year subjects in art history (totalling 87.5 points). Two of these subjects (totalling 25 points) may be in other areas of study in the School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology.
It is advisable for students to choose subjects from different periods of art history.
The prerequisites for entry to Fourth Year Honours in Art History are:
completion of all the requirements of the BA and;
completion of a major in art history and;
an average grade of H2B or higher over the second/third year subjects within the major.
Entry to honours must be approved by the honours coordinator of the School and the Faculty of Arts honours course adviser. Forms to be submitted to the School are available at the School Office in May and September each year.
Honours coordinator: Dr Parshia Lee-Stecum
Students undertaking pure honours in art history must complete:
107-519 Art History Thesis or 107-520 Art History Thesis (MYE) (37.5 points) and;;
107-044 Research Methods (12.5 points) and;
four honours subjects in art history (totalling 50 points).
With the approval of the honours coordinator, one of these subjects may be in cinema studies, or classical studies and archeology.
Students undertaking combined honours in art history and another area of study must complete:
107-519 Art History Thesis or 107-520 Art History Thesis (MYE) (37.5 points) and;
107-044 Research Methods (12.5 points) and;
one honours subject in art history (totalling 12.5 points) and;
three honours subjects in the combined area of study (totalling 37.5 points).
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honours thesis in the combined area of study (37.5 points) and;
two Honours subjects in the combined area of study (totalling 25 points) and;
107-044 Research Methods (12.5 points) and;
two honours subjects in art history (totalling 25 points).
combined Honours students may replace 107-044 Research Methods with an approved research methods seminar in the other discipline.
The School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology teaches a number of art history subjects in Europe and the United States as one-month intensive fieldwork programs in the Summer Semester or winter non-teaching period. See individual subject entries for details:
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A BA with a major in art history can lead to a Graduate Diploma in Art History, a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Art History and cinema studies) or Masters in Art Curatorship & Museum Management.
An Honours degree in art history can lead to MA or PhD degrees.
Career opportunities for graduates in art history are to be found in teaching and in academic research, in the arts industry as curators, administrators, and directors of art galleries and museums, in the commercial sphere of dealerships and auction houses, and as critics, journalists and arts writers.
School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archeology
Old Pathology Building
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Tel: +61 3 8344 5565
Email: fine.arts@finearts.unimelb.edu.au
Web: http://www.sfca.unimelb.edu.au
107-018 Art History A: The Work of Art
107-019 Art History B: Artist & Audience
103-006 Multimedia Authoring
107-021 The Age of Michelangelo
107-030 Contemporary Aboriginal Art
107-036 Nineteenth Century French Art
107-038 Modernist Avant-Gardes
107-040 Histories and Theories of Conservation
107-046 Contemporary Australian Art
107-048 Art, Society & Ritual in Medieval Italy
107-063 Watteau and 18th Century Art 1700-1770
107-106 Roman Art and Architecture
131-044 Medieval and Renaissance Nuremberg
107-119 The Parthenon
110-138 Japanese Art: Zen Painting to Edo Prints
107-519 Art History Thesis
107-520 Art History Thesis (MYE)
107-044 Research Methods
107-125 Illuminated Manuscripts
107-150 The Virtual Print Room
107-151 The Visual Culture of Colonial Australia
107-050 Fine Arts 4A
107-055 The History and Philosophy of Museums
107-056 Theory and Discourse in Art History
107-506 Program of Language Study
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