Major Overview
- Description
Art is not a singular entity, but changes in time and space as cultures, that produce it, change. The History of Art major introduces you to art within the whole spectrum of our visual experience. It encompasses studies in visual arts, literature, film and new media, architecture, landscape architecture and the impact of other art and design practice on the history of cultures. Learning to experience aesthetic pleasure through emotional intuition and intellectual learning is an essential means of exploring the serious issues of past and present cultures from many parts of the world including Europe, America, Asia and Australia.
- Outcomes
Students are able to:
- analyse a range of images, texts and items of visual culture and their social, political, economic, religious or aesthetic contexts
- apply the key concepts, theories and methodologies of the discipline of Art History in the study of art
- show a good general knowledge of several periods in the history of art as well as more detailed knowledge of particular subject areas studied in the major
- communicate by reasoned argument in written texts and general discussion the ideas and approaches of the discipline
- undertake independent research in the discipline of Art History
- demonstrate understanding of the significance of the visual arts and complex images in the construction of identities, ideologies, social formations and our place in the world
- demonstrate understanding of the key contemporary issues of the discipline and their relevance to the study of art of diverse periods and cultures.
- Broadening guidelines
All students studying towards a Bachelor's Degree at UWA are required to Broaden their studies by completing a minimum of four units (24 points) of study outside their degree specific major. Broadening is your opportunity to explore other areas of interest, investigate new disciplines and knowledge paradigms and to shape your degree to suit your own aspirations and interests. Many of you will be able to undertake more than this minimum amount of broadening study and we encourage you to do so if this suits your aspirations. Over the next few months you will find here some broadening suggestions related to your degree-specific major. While we know that many students value guidance of this sort, these are only suggestions and students should not lose sight of the opportunity to explore that is afforded by your Broadening Choices. Advice can also be sought from your Allocated Student Advising Office.
- Courses
History of Art can be taken as a degree-specific major in the following degree courses:
Example Study Plan
See study plans for more information.
Units
Key to availability of units:
- S1
- Semester 1
- S2
- Semester 2
- N/A
- not available in 2024 – may be available in 2025 or 2026
- OS
- offshore teaching period
Level 1
Degree-specific major units
Take all units (12 points):
Level 2
Degree-specific major units
Take unit(s) to the value of 18 points:
Availability | Unit code | Unit name | unit requirements |
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S1 | HART2001 | Curating First Nations Art |
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S1 | HART2041 | The Art of Photography | |
N/A | HART2043 | Zen Gardens to Manga Mania: A Survey of Japanese Art | |
OS | HART2044 | Contemporary Art and Tradition in China | |
N/A | HART2201 | Art and Urban Experience | |
N/A | HART2202 | Art and Social Justice | |
N/A | HART2203 | (Inter)national History of Art Study Tour |
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N/A | HART2207 | Caravaggio and the Baroque | |
N/A | HART2222 | Contemporary Art | |
S2 | HART2223 | Modernism and the Visual Arts | |
N/A | HART2234 | Film Noir to the New Wave | |
N/A | HART2237 | Nineteenth-Century British Art | |
N/A | HART2243 | Imagist Avant-Garde Film | |
S2 | HART2274 | Introduction to Museum and Curatorial Studies | |
N/A | HART2275 | Italian Renaissance Art Now | |
N/A | HART2370 | Global Art Histories |
Level 3
Degree-specific major units
Take unit(s) to the value of 18 points:
Availability | Unit code | Unit name | unit requirements |
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S1 | HART3001 | Curating First Nations Art |
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N/A | HART3040 | Breaking Art |
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OS | HART3044 | Contemporary Art and Tradition in China |
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N/A | HART3203 | (Inter)national History of Art Study Tour |
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S2 | HART3276 | Prints from Dürer to Toulouse-Lautrec |
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N/A | HART3301 | Manet and the French Avant-Garde |
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N/A | HART3302 | Michelangelo |
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N/A | HART3310 | Art and Games: from Dada to Data |
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S1 | HART3330 | Art Writing |
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N/A | HART3331 | Visual Culture and Art in America: 1900–2000 |
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N/A | HART3333 | Picturing the Self: Portraiture in Nineteenth-century Europe |
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N/A | HART3340 | Materialist Avant-Garde Film |
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N/A | HART3361 | The Dutch Golden Age and the Art of Exploration |
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N/A | HART3371 | The Northern Renaissance |
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N/A | HART3375 | Twenty-first Century Art |
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N/A | HART3666 | Australian and Aboriginal Art |
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