Our final-year programme is challenging and rewarding. It is designed to bring your knowledge and skills in the subject to a higher level, building on the foundations laid in the first and second years of the BA. Students in the 30- or 40-Credit Subject take two core modules that focus on broad questions within the discipline: HA3015 examines major matters relating to method, theory, and approach in Art History, while HA3029 investigates art and gender from the Renaissance to the present. The elective modules — HA3031, HA3033, HA3034, HA3035, HA3036 and HA3037 — offer the freedom to shape your final-year programme to suit your individual interests and to investigate particular issues in the context of a skill-based, small-group learning environment.

 

For the three credit pathways on offer, see the Academic Programme Catalogue.

 

Dr Flavio Boggi, Third-Arts Convenor.

 

In 2024/5, this module explores global women’s art and gender theories from the Renaissance to the present day. It examines the various ways that artists have used their work to question and criticise the relationships between gender and society. The module involves sustained visual analysis, as well as a critical engagement with both primary and secondary texts.  More

Coordinator: Dr  Flavio Boggi

Semester 2: Friday, 15:00-17:00

Location: West Wing 5

 

The module offers a detailed exploration of art in Baroque Rome by considering questions of style, theory and production, but also of politics, culture and society. In a series of case studies, we evaluate crucial debates concerning the output of such leading protagonists of painting, sculpture and architecture as Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini. The context in which the artist worked is also considered, relating it to the urgent priorities of Rome's papacy, ecclesiastical institutions and leading noble families. The module encourages you to think about new art historical definitions of the Baroque age alongside seventeenth-century writings on art.  More

Coordinator: Dr  Kylie Thomas

Semester 2: Wednesday, 11:00-13:00

Location: Áras na Laoi G.02

 

This module will engage with multiple forms of critical and creative practice that seek to challenge gender inequality and address gender-based violence. The course will provide an introduction to some foundational ideas in feminist theory and will focus in particular on critiques of ‘mainstream’ or liberal western feminism. We will read a series of critical essays by feminist thinkers and will consider works by visual activists, artists, photographers and performance artists from across the world. It is important to be aware that some of the artists whose work we will consider engage with subjects such as slavery; sexual violence; femicide and reproductive rights. Working closely with this material can be traumatising and this will be something we will discuss as part of the course.  More