
Overview
Background
The History of Art programme from University of York welcomes students from all backgrounds, with a great range of intellectual interests: students who seek an academic career, and those who require a further professional qualification; applicants who wish to extend their art-historical interests while pursuing other kinds of employment; and those who are seeking to develop an academic interest in their retirement.
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Research areas:
- British art and architecture of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries.
- Curating contemporary art; histories of exhibition-making and art institutions; contemporary art from the Global South
- Post-war and contemporary art history.
- The relationship between stained glass art and craft and the interactions between art history and conservation.
- British, American and European sculpture in its global contexts, c.1760-1914; queer theory; animal studies; the polar world.
- British architectural history, 1550-1900, particularly architectural drawing, the English baroque, and architecture and intellectual history.
- Early medieval / Anglo-Saxon art, the history of its study, and the area of medieval revival art.
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Duration
- Full-time
- 24 months
- Part-time
- 48 months
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Applicants should have a good 2.1 or 1st-class undergraduate degree, or equivalent; applicants for the PhD should also have or be currently completing an MA degree, and we normally require an MA dissertation mark, where one is awarded, of at least 65 or equivalent (where 50 is a bare pass and 70 or above is a distinction).
- Exceptions can be made for applicants with an unusual career profile, but who have substantial related experience.
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International
20800 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 20800 GBP per year during 24 months. -
National
4688 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 4688 GBP per year during 24 months.
Part-time:
UK: £2,344
International: £10,400
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Funding
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Scholarships Information
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