AH20310 Art History Field Trip

Academic Year 2024/2025

This option module, open to stage 2 art history students, involves a field trip over around three nights/ four days to a European city during the study/ fieldwork period in March 2025 (exact location and dates tbc). We will visit and analyse the museums, galleries and main sites of art historical interest in the European city of our destination, and place these with its urban context, cultural history and identity. Although some preliminary classes will take place on campus between January - March 2025, most of the teaching take place on the field trip during full days, with early 9am starts each morning at pre-arranged meeting points. Students should be prepared to cover reasonable distances within the city and engage with art historical discussions throughout each day that we are away. Assessment will be geared to the trip, and will consist of presentations to the class delivered in situ while abroad, later written up as essays on our return. NB. students should be prepared to bear the costs of airfare and accommodation themselves (the School of Art History and Cultural Policy expects to give some assistance and advice in alleviating costs - further details will emerge in the autumn trimester). For further information contact the module coordinator Dr Philip Cottrell.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this module, students should be able to: 1. Identify the major museums, galleries and sites of historical interest in the city designated for this fieldtrip; 2. Describe and discuss the city's collections, their formation and history, and the key painters and sculptors discussed; 3. Understand the interface between art, culture and politics that shaped the collections and sites of interest to this module. 4. Relate knowledge acquired in class to the art history of the city which we shall be visiting. 5. Attend classes and hand in work, punctually and without recourse to any resources that might compromise academic integrity/ originality - specifically AI tools and other non scholarly web-based resources (these are not appropriate to this module).

Indicative Module Content:

More details as to the module, its destination and the collections/ sites of art historical interest covered will emerge in the autumn trimester.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

7
Field Trip/External Visits

21
Specified Learning Activities

36
Autonomous Student Learning

36
Total

100
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures, field trip to a European city, on site observation and discussion of works of art, architecture, and urban planning etc.
 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Pre-requisite:
AH10160 - Art History in the Making


 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Individual Project: Please ignore the schedule details listed in this part of the descriptor as it fails to acknowledge that this will be a class presentation in situ during the fieldwork period in March- date tbc. Week 9 Graded No

40

 No
Assignment(Including Essay): The date of this essay, based on the class presentation delivered in situ, will be confirmed at the start of the module. Week 9 Graded No

60

 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Autumn No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback will be via essay returned to the students in person or electronically, and by appointment with the course lecturer.