How will I learn?
Modules are taught by a mixture of lectures, seminars and workshops. In your first year, core modules introduce you to the study of art history. You will write essays, give presentations to the tutor and other students, keep portfolios of your work, and undertake group projects. There is a study trip abroad for all second-year students, during which students keep a logbook to record work, through both text and illustration (refer to Trips and events). In your second and final years, you can chose from a list of options. You write longer essays, work individually towards a dissertation and do assessed presentations. All these help to pull together your skills of organising text and communicating with visual material.
What will I learn?
Art history at Sussex is not a simple list of great artists but a real exploration of the problems, issues and complexities that lie behind image-making. We cover a wide range of topics from Byzantium to African masks, Renaissance Florence and 1990s Britain.
What skills will I develop?
A degree in Art History, like all liberal arts degrees, gives you very flexible skills. You become an articulate, expressive graduate able to construct arguments clearly and present yourself effectively. In addition, working with visual images equips you with another important skill. In a world where we now communicate so often through pictures and images, understanding how they are produced and received is a significant career advantage.
