Birkbeck, University of London

You begin with a compulsory core module, which introduces different current approaches, methodologies and debates involved in the study of the histories of art, visual culture and photography. You then choose 1 option module, which varies from year to year. The option modules listed below are indicative and may change. Please contact the Admissions Tutor for further information. These assessed elements are supported by a series of research skills workshops. Core module: Current Approaches to History of Art . Indicative option modules: Art and Identity: 'Race', Ideology, Culture; Art Nouveau: Art, Design, Modernity in Paris 1889-1914; Creating a Public. Museums and their audiences; Framing and Narrating Modern Art in the Museum; Gender, Modernity and the City; Gothic in England: Architecture, Liturgy and Identity 1170-1360; Histories in Transition: Visual Culture, History and Memory in South Africa and Beyond; Inventing the Victorians; Museum Environments; Museums, Memory and National Identity; Photography and the Index; The Art of Persuasion: Religious Imagery and the Catholic Reformation .