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HA4588: HISTORY OF ART DISSERTATION (2015-2016)

Last modified: 25 Mar 2016 11:35


Course Overview

Your dissertation is intended to give you the opportunity to carry out a piece of sustained research on a topic of your own choice and to demonstrate to the examiners your ability to present the results of such research in a proper, scholarly manner. Your research may be of various kinds.  It may address works of art (or a single work of art) directly, through first-hand study in galleries, museums, or private collections, or it may be of a more literary kind, addressing critical or theoretical problems.  Or it might involve both. For further information please see course guide.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 4
Term Second Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus None. Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Mr John Gash

Qualification Prerequisites

None.

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • History Of Art (HA) (Studied)
  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Programme Level 4

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course requires 8,000-10,000-word dissertation on an art-historical topic of the student's choice, selected after discussion with the course convener and with the student's allocated supervisor. The topic may deal with painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative or applied arts. It need not necessarily be restricted to the areas taught within History of Art.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

1st Attempt: One 8,000/10,000 word dissertation (100%).

Resit: Normally no resit available.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

Feedback takes the form of :
  1. Regular supervision meetings with a supervisor, at which the student is given oral feedback on their developing ideas.
  2. Comments by the supervisor and other students in response to a seminar presentation given by the candidates at the beginning of the second half-session of their fourth year.
  3. Written and oral comments by the supervisor on a critical bibliography submitted by students before the end of February in their final year.
  4. Written comments on a specimen piece of dissertation writing submitted by the student in the first eight weeks of teaching in the second half-session of their final year.
  5. Feedback on the dissertation will be issued to students.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

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