Art History with Creative Writing BA (Hons)
Study and develop your skills in artistic expression. Combine architecture, landscape & painting with short fiction, journalism, poetry & scriptwriting.
Courses
In each year of your undergraduate programme, you will study the equivalent of four, 30-credit, courses for your honours degree, plus three non-credit bearing courses for your NCH Diploma.
The courses that run in each academic year are subject to change in line with faculty availability and student demand so there is no guarantee every course will be delivered. For further information, please see here and speak to your admissions contact.
In your first year
The Art of the Byzantine World
Learn about the architecture and material culture of the Eastern Roman Empire… Read More
Artists and Their Materials
This course will examine a range of works in different media… Read More
Introduction to the History of European Art
An orientation course guiding students how to approach & understand works of art… Read More
The Writer’s Craft
An introduction to the underlying concepts and principles of the creative writing… Read More
The NCH Diploma
Critical Reasoning
Studied in Michaelmas term, introduces students to formal and informal logic… Read More
LAUNCH: Introductory Capabilities
LAUNCH provides students with an understanding of the world of work… Read More
In your second year
The Industry of Art: Renaissance & Baroque Patrons, Artists, Objects & Consumers
The development of European Art from 1300 to 1650, focusing on Italy in particular… Read More
Theory & Methodology for Art History
Critical and reflective consideration of how we engage in art historical study.… Read More
One course from:
The City in Contemporary History
Learn how to talk about the built environment that you move through every day… Read More
European Painting: Chardin to Matisse
A wide-ranging introduction to European painting between 1700 and 1930… Read More
Plus:
The Writer’s Voice: Influence & Innovation
Foregrounds two related aspects of central importance to the creative writing process… Read More
The NCH Diploma
Science Literacy
Physics, Cosmology, Evolutionary Biology and Neuroscience literacy… Read More
LAUNCH: Applied Capabilities
Advanced Capabilities course runs over students’ final two years at the College… Read More
In your third year
Art History Dissertation
In the final year, each student taking Art History as a Major writes a dissertation… Read More
Modern Art and Architecture: 1850 to Present*
*Subject to approval. This course looks at key works, buildings, urban projects and… Read More
One course from:
The Art of the Islamic World
Study the art of the Near and Middle East from the 7th century to the 17th century… Read More
The Elegiac Landscape
Survey the evolution of the Elegiac Landscape from 1750 to the present… Read More
Plus:
Final Year Project & Publishing Horizons
Undertaking of a single, sustained, self-directed creative writing project… Read More
The NCH Diploma
Applied Ethics
A series of lectures on major ethical challenges and alternative responses… Read More
LAUNCH: Applied Capabilities
Advanced Capabilities course runs over students’ final two years at the College… Read More