Year 1

You will begin by studying a broad, sweeping history of art stretching from classical antiquity through to the present day. You will also learn the techniques of decoding and interpreting paintings according to their style and iconography, while also considering how literary descriptions of paintings affect the ways we ‘see’ them. The vocational module 'Film and Art: Academic Study and the Workplace' will introduce you to ways you might eventually apply your degree in an arts-related career, such as exhibition design and the organisation of arts events, and this will be delivered in collaboration with a local arts gallery. Your English studies will begin with an introduction to the core principles of English verse and prose.

Modules

• Introduction to the History of Art 1: Antiquity to Baroque
• Introduction to History of Art 2: Enlightenment to Contemporary
• Words and Pictures: Connoisseurship and Attribution
• Film and Art: Academic Practice and the Workplace
• The Novel Around the World (double module)
• Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (double module)

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Year 2

Core modules

• Independent Research Project
• Documents of the History of Art
• Chaucer and Medieval Culture (double module)
• Italian Art and Architecture 1500-1700
• Modernity and Tradition
• Love Wars: Gender, Writing and Society, 1660-1789 B (double module)

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Year Abroad (optional)

If you want to, you can spend your third year studying abroad at one of our partner institutions (eligibility is dependent on your academic performance in Years 1 and 2). Alternatively, you can opt to continue studying at the University and complete your degree in three years.

Studying abroad is not just for people who are interested in travelling and meeting new people. It is about acquiring life skills that are becoming increasingly significant for a wide range of jobs in our modern globalised society. Whether you go on to work in the private sector, the state sector, a non-governmental organisation or become self-employed you will find the experience invaluable. Find out more from our Study Abroad Unit.

Please note that a year spent abroad still incurs a tuition fee, but this is much lower than for a normal year at Leicester. See our Fees and Funding section for details.

History of Art and Film at Leicester has links with European universities, administered through the Erasmus+ scheme. If you are eligible for a loan from Student Finance you can apply for a travel grant from them. Languages courses, at both beginners and advanced level, are available through the University’s Languages at Leicester scheme.

• For the latest information on the future of the Erasmus+ scheme at UK universities please see our Brexit microsite

We have links with the following universities:

• Freie University Berlin, Germany
• University of Pisa, Italy
• University of Montpellier, France
• University of Groningen, Netherlands 

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Final Year (History of Art Dissertation)

Core module

• Dissertation 

Option modules

Choose 3 option modules from lists labelled A, plus 2 option modules from lists labelled B. You must choose at least one of the modules marked * and at least one of the modules marked **. You cannot choose both the 'Victorians' modules or both the 'Post-War to Post-Modern' modules. Overall, at least 3 modules should be from the English lists.

History of Art A

• Art Since 1945
• Art and Design in Europe, 1890-1914
• From Drawing to Painting in the Italian Renaissance

English A

• Romanticism: Revolutionary Writing from Blake to Shelley*
• Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray A*
• Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray B (double module – counts as two modules)*
• Forms of Modern Poetry
• Love and Death: The Novel in 19th Century Russia and France
• Feminist Fiction
• Church and State in Medieval Literature
• Writing Voices
• Criminal Women in Early Modern Literature
• English Around the World
• Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception
• English Place Names
• Detective Fiction from Sherlock Holmes to the Second World War
• Libertine Literature, 1660-1690
• Writing Prose Fiction
• On the Road Again: The Canterbury Tales After Chaucer
• Clinical Encounters? Narratives of Doctors and Patients from the Victorians to the Present Day
• The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Multilingual and Multicultural Communities

History of Art B

• Public Art and Monuments since 1918
• Italy and the North 1550-1700
• Film and Art Journalism

English B

• Modern Literature**
• Postcolonial Literature**
• Rewriting Britain (double module – counts as two modules)**
• Modern Monsters: Contemporary American Texts
• American Autobiography and American Literature
• Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
• Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts
• Representing the Holocaust
• Modern European Fiction
• Advanced Old English Language
• Historical Fiction
• Understanding Screenplays
• Tragedy
• Green Unpleasant Land: Britain’s Colonial Countryside
• Writing for Laughs
• Language, Power and Persuasion
• Sex and Sensibility: Women, Writing, Revolution

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Final Year (English Dissertation)

Core module

• Dissertation

Option modules

Choose 4 option modules from the lists labelled A, plus 2 option modules from the lists labelled B. You must choose at least one of the modules marked * and at least one of the modules marked **. You cannot choose both the 'Victorians' modules or both the 'Post-War to Post-Modern' modules. Overall, at least 3 modules should be from the History of Art lists.

History of Art A

• Art Since 1945
• Art and Design in Europe, 1890-1914
• From Drawing to Painting in the Italian Renaissance

English A

• Romanticism: Revolutionary Writing from Blake to Shelley*
• Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray A*
• Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray B (double module – counts as two modules)*
• Forms of Modern Poetry
• Love and Death: The Novel in 19th Century Russia and France
• Feminist Fiction
• Church and State in Medieval Literature
• Writing Voices
• Criminal Women in Early Modern Literature
• English Around the World
• Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception
• English Place Names
• Detective Fiction from Sherlock Holmes to the Second World War
• Libertine Literature, 1660-1690
• Writing Prose Fiction
• On the Road Again: The Canterbury Tales After Chaucer
• Clinical Encounters? Narratives of Doctors and Patients from the Victorians to the Present Day
• The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Multilingual and Multicultural Communities

History of Art B

• Public Art and Monuments since 1918
• Italy and the North 1550-1700
• Film and Art Journalism

English B

• Modern Literature**
• Postcolonial Literature**
• Rewriting Britain (double module – counts as two modules)**
• Modern Monsters: Contemporary American Texts
• American Autobiography and American Literature
• Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
• Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts
• Representing the Holocaust
• Modern European Fiction
• Advanced Old English Language
• Historical Fiction
• Understanding Screenplays
• Tragedy
• Green Unpleasant Land: Britain’s Colonial Countryside
• Writing for Laughs
• Language, Power and Persuasion
• Sex and Sensibility: Women, Writing, Revolution

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.