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Higher Diploma in History of Art
This programme is for individuals who already have a degree, preferably in the area of Arts or Sciences, and who wish to study Art History intensively over one academic year (full time) or two (part time). It is designed for those who:
• have an active interest in the History of Art but do not already possess a degree in the discipline;
• are currently employed in some branch of the arts and wish to obtain an academic qualification in the area;
• require a conversion course to apply for graduate study, such as the taught MA or the MPhil/PhD research degrees at UCC (note that completion of the HDip does not guarantee a place on a graduate programme).
Programme Overview
This is a full-time programme over one academic year during which the student will take courses in the History of Art to the equivalent of 60 credits (for the two-year part-time option, the student will take courses to the equivalent of 30 credits in each year).
The programme is made up of modules from the second- and third-year programmes in the BA degree. The 60 credits will be chosen by the student in consultation with the Higher Diploma Co-ordinator, having regard to timetable constraints and suitability of course combinations.
Students with little previous knowledge of the History of Art are strongly advised to audit all or part of the first-year Art History course (HA1001).
Choice of Modules
60 credits are required and students must choose modules from the following list:
- HA2003 Modernism in Europe (5 credits)
- HA2005 Art and Patronage in Renaissance Italy 1300-1499 (5 credits)
- HA2009 Creator and Subject:Themes in Portraiture (5 credits)
- HA2011 From Modernism to Postmodernism (5 credits)
- HA2012 The History of Art History and Method (5 credits)
- HA2014 People and Places: Investigating the Depiction of Daily Life (5 credits)
- HA2015 Special Supervised Research Project (5 credits)
- HA2016 Roman Imperial Art and Architecture (5 credits)
- HA3005 Roma Caput Mundi: Art and Architecture in High Renaissance Rome (5 credits)
- HA3006 Tradition and Innovation and the Art of the Academy in the Nineteenth Century (5 credits)
- HA3013 Specialised Supervised Research Project (10 credits)
- HA3015 Approaches to the History of Art (5 credits)
- HA3020 Themes in Roman Baroque Art (5 credits)
- HA3021 Ireland's Golden Age: Classicism, Romanticism and the Picturesque in Eighteenth-Century Irish Art (5 credits)
- HA3023 Themes in Modern Art (5 credits)
- HA3024 Makers' Myths: The Artist's Persona After 1945 (5 credits)
- HA3025 From Disegno to the Digitial Age: Episodes from the History of Drawing since the Renaissance (5 credits)
- HA3026 The Art of Medieval Ireland, c.650-1169 (5 credits)
For further information (e.g. course content, time of classes, location of classes, etc.) click here for second-year modules, and here for third-year modules.
Contact Details and Further Information
Closing Date for Applications: 1 September 2011
Application and Course Information: see http://www.ucc.ie/en/study/postgrad/what/acsss/hdip/histart/
Application queries should be directed to: Postgraduate Admissions, UCC.
tel. +353 (0)21 490 2645; e-mail m.coakley@ucc.ie
Contact Art History for further information:
tel. +353 (0)21 490 2124; e-mail maeve.barry@ucc.ie
Course Co-ordinator: Dr. Flavio Boggi, e-mail f.boggi@ucc.ie
