Admission requirements
The following course needs to be succesfully completed:
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Description
Publications which are considered milestones in academic art historical research are the focus point in this course. Students will get acquainted with methodologies and approaches in the art historical debate in past and present, illustrated with representative examples from the art history programme at Leiden University. Students will become skilled in reflecting on methodological approaches that are currently important for the study of art and art history.
Course objectives
Students get acquainted with theories and research methods of important art historians in past and present.
Students learn to analyse texts from important art historical thinkers from different perspectives and to ask and answer critical questions about the approaches showcased in those texts.
Students develop an understanding of the way the presented approaches and methods may shape academic research in a field of research of their own choice.
Students gain insight in the character of follow-up research using the methodologies and approaches discussed during the course in the MA and at PhD-level.
Timetable
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Mode of instruction
Lecture/seminar
Independent study of literature
Assessment method
Assessment
Written examination with essay questions
Paper
Weighing
Paper (50%)
Paper (50%)
The weighted average needs to be at least 6.0 (=pass).
Resit
For all failed assignments, there is an opportunity for a resit. All resits will take place - as far as applicable - on the same moment, after the last examination has taken place.
Inspection and feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Reading list
Richard Shone, John-Paul Stonard, The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss. Londen: Thames & Hudson, 2013
See Brightspace for a list of other primary sources.
Registration
Enrolment through uSis is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available on the website.
Registration Studeren à la carte en Contractonderwijs
Not applicable.
Contact
For general questions, please contact the coordinator of studies.
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