The course allows you to study art history from a perspective which is both highly focused in its attention to particular cultures and contexts and global in its frame of reference. You will be able to study aspects of the western tradition from Egyptian and Roman antiquity to the present, the arts of Islam and the visual cultures of the Indian subcontinent, Africa, the pre-Columbian Americas and the cultures of the Pacific. Other areas covered include the history of photography and the development and management of museum collections. One feature is its world art structure and ethos, which avoids privileging any one particular tradition or geography over others and which seeks exploratory and explanatory bridges to relate disparate visual production across cultures and over time. The visual is considered from a variety of perspectives: anthropological, archaeological, historical and museological as well as art historical. You will be encouraged to engage with art and architecture of many kinds in a spectrum of contexts, and there will be possibilities to study buildings, works of art and artefacts first-hand at UEA, in the Sainsbury and University Collections, in the city of Norwich and the art-rich county of Norfolk, and on field trips in Britain and abroad. You may also take advantage of the ERASMUS programme to transfer your studies to a European university such as Pisa or Berlin for one or both semesters of your second year.
