AR980-7-SU-CO:
Final Project: Writing Art History
2024/25
Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies (School of)
Colchester Campus
Summer
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Tuesday 22 April 2025
Friday 27 June 2025
40
15 May 2024
Requisites for this module
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MARTV399 Art History,
MARTVB98 Art History (Including Placement Year),
MARTVB99 Art History (Including Year Abroad)
This is the final project module for students on the Integrated Masters in Art History. It consists of a mixture of skills workshops and individual supervisions in the summer term while students write their Final Project (a Draft Journal Article).
It provides students with essential skills, such as research design and the development of a research question, researching art historical problems in the Library and with electronic resources, presenting research ideas (in writing and through presentations) and advanced writing skills.
The aims of this module are:
- To provide students with advanced research and writing skills at postgraduate level.
- To develop students’ capacities for independent thought and critical reflection.
- To develop in students the research skills appropriate to the advanced study of art history, in particular through the writing of a draft journal article for their final project, thus providing them with the basis for further progression.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to have:
- Advanced knowledge of some of the principal methods and approaches in art history.
- Detailed knowledge of one or more artists, exhibitions, places, theoretical texts.
- Ability to engage critically with the main texts and the secondary literature pertaining to them.
- Ability to form and present original views on, and interpretations of, issues arising within the various currents of art history.
There is no regular syllabus.
The three workshops will introduce students to the skills required to plan, research and write up a research project in Art History. They will cover research design and the development of a research question, researching art historical problems in the Library and with electronic resources, presenting research ideas (in writing and through presentations) and advanced writing skills.
There will be individual supervisions to offer hands-on guidance on the Final Project.
This module will be delivered via:
The workshops will be for the whole group and convey basic skills and techniques. Individual supervisors will work with students on their drafts.
Students with specific learning difficulties or other specific needs will be supported in similar ways as students writing MA dissertations.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Draft Journal Article (8000 words) |
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100% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
100 per cent Coursework Mark
Reassessment
100 per cent Coursework Mark
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Michael Tymkiw, email: mtymkiw@essex.ac.uk.
PHAIS Postgraduate Queries: phaispg@essex.ac.uk
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Dr Daniel James Rycroft
University of East Anglia
Associate Professor
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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