Overview

SOAS-Alphawood MA in Asian Art (Online) at SOAS University of London offers you flexibility in how and where you study, while retaining our object-based approach. Your online learning will be supported by a range of bespoke, professionally produced videos, shot in situ at the museums we work with. You are supported by online platforms and technologies that allow you to engage deeply with the objects you study. You can choose to either complete your full programme online, or to augment your online experience with an intensive two-week supporting course offering museum-based study in London (Asian Art in the Museum).

The programme will appeal to all those with a serious interest in Asian art, regardless of your personal, professional or academic background. It is also a proven pathway to further postgraduate study in Asian art history, and to careers in museums, the commercial art world and academia.

Teaching and learning

The online 30-credit modules offer you an immersive foundation at postgraduate level in a richly rewarding field of study, with a unique range of digital resources and exceptional pedagogical support over 10-weeks.

The online modules are designed to be accessible from anywhere in the world, and with those who will have other professional and/or personal commitments in mind (although we do recommend allocating 30 hours of study time per week).

Online modules consist of a variety of different modes of learning, including:

• Asynchronous, online lectures given by SOAS academic staff, leading national and international scholars, museum curators, and art market professionals
• Exclusive contributions filmed in the exhibitions, galleries, and reserve collections of the British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum
• Recommended weekly readings
• Live, weekly seminar discussions conducted via Zoom
• Recommended weekly readings
• Online discussion for a facilitated by module convenors
• Weekly one-to-one tutorials with your module convenors