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Level 2 - 12 credits - autumn term
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V4018 Methods and Approaches course document 2009-10
Course description
Course outline
The Methods and Approaches lectures aim to introduce you to methods of study that have shaped the discipline of art history, and to debates that have influenced the nature of at history. How has art been written about? Why has it been written about in these ways? Over the 10 week course, you will be considering some of these issues: why has art history been a history of artists? how has art been defined and categorised? What tools have been devised to talk about images? What assumptions have shaped the discipline? How and why are these being rethought? What happens when one assumption from Renaissance art history is applied to the art of another period - the Modern, for example?
Through a series of lectures on five key themes, we will examine questions such as these, both by exploring writings about art history and by looking at actual images to see how our views of these things change depending on the way we are taught to think about them.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, a successful student should:
1) be familiar with a diversity of perspectives within the discipline of art history;
2) have considered a range of selected texts and interpretative strategies;
3) have considered actual works of art in the context of these perspectives;
4) be aware of the contested nature of art history as a discipline;
5) be able to engage critically with historiographic material.
Assessments
| Type | Timing | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | 100.00% | |
| Test | Autumn Week 10 (2 hours ) | equal weighting |
Resit mode of assessment
| Type | Timing | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Unseen Examination | Summer Vacation (1 hour 30 minutes) | 100.00% |
Timing
Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.
Weighting
Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.
Teaching methods
| Term | Method | Duration | Week pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autumn Term | LECTURE | 2 hours | 1111111111 |
How to read the week pattern
The numbers indicate the weeks of the term and how many events take place each week.
Contact details
Dr Steve Wharton
Assess convenor, Convenor
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cultural/profile89411.html
Dr Geoffrey Quilley
Assess convenor
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/arthistory/profile213932.html
Dr Meaghan Clarke
Convenor
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/arthistory/profile92542.html