Modules for Visiting Students
Art History offers a variety of stimulating modules for students visiting UCC. Visually rich and intellectually challenging, many of these courses also involve study trips to such cities as Rome, London, Amsterdam, Florence and Berlin. Visiting students are welcome to apply for any History of Art module from the BA programme. While no prior experience of the discipline is required to enrol, enthusiasm is essential!
Our courses provide a varied introduction to the discipline and, because we are a small unit, we are able to offer you particularly focused personal attention during your time here at UCC.
Art History is a vital and challenging discipline of quite particular relevance to the needs and interests of contemporary society. With its emphasis on visual analysis and critical thinking, the study of the subject will enable you to: think and write about art creatively; build your own criteria for making value judgements; and understand the way in which art is related to the social, political, psychological and philosophical contexts from which it emerges.
Modules on Offer, 2011-12
- HA1001: Introduction to Art History (Full Year, 15 credits)
- HA1002: European Art & Architecture: From Antiquity to the Renaissance (Autumn, 7.5 credits)
- HA1003: European Art & Architecture: From the Baroque to the Modern Era (Spring, 7.5 credits)
- HA2003: Modernism in Europe (Autumn, 5 credits) A trip to Paris is planned.
- HA2005: Art and Patronage in Renaissance Italy (Spring, 5 credits) A trip to Florence is planned.
- HA2009: Creator and Subject: Themes in Portraiture (Autumn, 5 credits)
- HA2011: From Modernism to Postmodernism (Spring, 5 credits) A trip to London is planned.
- HA2012: The History of Art History & Method (Spring, 5 credits)
- HA2014: People and Places: Investigating the Depiction of Daily Life (Autumn, 5 credits) A trip to Amsterdam is planned.
- HA2015: Special Supervised Research Project (Full Year, 5 credits)
- HA2016: Roman Imperial Art and Architecture (Autumn, 5 credits)
- HA3005: Roma Caput Mundi: Art and Architecture in High Renaissance Rome (Autumn, 5 credits) A trip to Rome is planned.
- HA3006: Tradition and Innovation: The Art of the Academy in the 19th Century (Spring, 5 credits)
- HA3013: Special Supervised Research Project (Full Year, 10 credits)
- HA3015: Approaches to the History of Art (Spring, 5 credits)
- HA3020: Themes in Roman Baroque Art (Spring, 5 credits) A trip to Rome is planned.
- HA3021: Ireland's Golden Age: Classicism, Romanticism and the Picturesque in 18th-century Irish Art (Autumn, 5 credits) A trip to Dublin is planned.
- HA3023: Themes in Modern Art: Paroxysms of Modernity (Autumn, 5 credits) A trip to Berlin is planned.
- HA3024: Makers’ Myths: The Persona of the Artist After 1945 (Spring, 5 credits)
- HA3025: From Disegno to the Digital Age: Episodes in the History of Drawing Since the Renaissance (Autumn, 5 credits) A trip to London is planned.
- HA3026: The Art of Medieval Ireland, c.650-1169 (Autumn, 5 credits) A trip to Dublin is planned.
For further information (e.g. course content, time of classes, location of classes, etc.), click here for first-year modules, here for second-year modules, and here for third-year modules.
