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HomeStudy at YorkUndergraduateCourses 2027/28Curating and Art History (BA)

BA (Hons) Curating and Art History

Combine practical curatorial skills with a deep understanding of art history.

Year of entry: 2027/28

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September 2027

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3 years full-time

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Department of History of Art

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Why study curating and art history at York?

Develop skills in curating for different spaces, such as galleries, museums and heritage sites. Studying this alongside art history will allow you to combine theory and practice, and teach you to create meaningful curatorial experiences in a variety of settings.

Work directly with the University’s 1000+ piece art collection, which includes works from Barbara Hepworth, Austin Wright and many more. You’ll also engage with the University curator and dedicated curating space in our Grade II listed Heslington Hall.

Learn beyond the University and make professional connections to encounter objects in different settings. We offer regular trips to cultural institutions across the country, both as part of your course and as an extracurricular. These are a great way to experience the field directly, gain firsthand knowledge and develop professional connections.

Study under active curators with an international reputation. We're one of the largest art history departments in the UK, and many of our staff have co-curated exhibitions with regional and national institutions both in the UK and abroad, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery, London; Tate and York Art Gallery.

We have an exciting range of international and national partnerships which are fundamental to our teaching. Past Curating and Art History placement hosts for second-year undergraduate students include:

Arts Council Collection

Castle Howard

Crescent Arts, Scarborough

David Duggleby’s Auctioneers

National Railway Museum

The Hepworth Wakefield

Walker Art Gallery

York Museums Trust

Find out more about our collaborations and partnerships.

Our curators and their recent exhibitions

Vera Mey, Busan Biennale 2024, Busan, South Korea

Richard McClary, Lenses Across Time: Views of Afghanistan, Hungate Reading Café, Bellerby Court, Hungate

Richard McClary, Arts of the Islamic World, Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York

Elizabeth Prettejohn, Preraffaelliti: Rinascimento Moderno, Museo Civico San Domenico Forlì

Erhan Tamur, She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400–2000 BC, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

Erhan Tamur, Reimagining the Galleries for the Art of the Ancient Near East and Cyprus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Amanda Hilliam, Carlo Crivelli: Shadows on the Sky, Ikon Galler

Jeanne Nuechterlein, Making A Masterpiece: Bouts and Beyond, York Art Gallery

Amanda Lillie, Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece, The National Gallery, London

Richard Johns, Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud, York Art Gallery and Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal

Michael White, Bauhaus and Britain, Tate Britain.

Jason Edwards, Turner and the Whale, Hull Maritime Museum

Vera Mey, Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.

Elizabeth Prettejohn, Albert Moore: Of Beauty and Aesthetics, Museum De Buitenplaats, Netherlands and York Art Gallery.

Elizabeth Prettejohn, Alma-Tadema at Home in Antiquity, Leighton House

Jason Edwards, Sculpture Victorious, Tate Britain

Tim Ayers, Parliament in the Making: St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster Hall, Parliament, London

Michael White, Mondrian & His Studios, Tate Liverpool

Jeanne Nuechterlein, Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance, The National Gallery, London.

Amanda Lillie, Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting, The National Gallery, London

Richard Johns, Turner and the Sea, National Maritime Museum

Richard Johns, Austen & Turner: A Country House Encounter, Harewood House

Partnerships

As part of the degree, you'll study a range of art history and curatorial modules. Some of these will take place in a seminar room and others in museums and galleries. You will work both with staff from our department, many of whom are curators with an international reputation, and with museum and gallery professionals, from a range of our partner institutions, including:

For more on the Department's diverse partnerships with organisations including Tate, the V&A, the National Gallery, York Museums Trust, the National Railway Museum, the Bowes Museum, the Hepworth Wakefield, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, see York Art History Collaborations.

Expert teaching

You'll be taught by dedicated staff, including curators, artists and academics.

Collaborations with museums and galleries

Our range of collaborations with museums and galleries will be invaluable to your education

Art on campus

The student-run Norman Rea Gallery is one of many societies and groups you can join.

You'll study a wide range of modules that cover the fundamentals of art history and develop a range of approaches to curating an art museum or gallery. You'll also curate an exhibition as part of a group project. Then, further develop your curatorial skills through a placement at an art institution or via structured instruction in collections care and management. We have close relationships with a wide variety of local, national, and international arts and heritage institutions, as well as other third-sector organisations. We also work on art beyond the museum and gallery system, including with partners in country houses, churches and cathedrals, as well as human rights and law enforcement institutions.

Some of the modules you can choose from may include associated field trips to allow you to visit art and architecture. Financial support with transport is usually provided.

In your first year you'll study a range of modules that will develop your skills in art history and cover a range of approaches to curating.

With our modules you'll visit works of art and architecture in York and beyond to study them first hand, and you'll explore the material nature of works and learn to describe, analyse and interpret the visual and material qualities of a wide range of media. You'll learn to challenge commonly held assumptions, and develop your skills for literary, critical and rhetorical analysis. You'll be introduced to the history and current practice of curation. You'll work with case studies and texts and learn about relevant methodologies and conceptual problems, and will critically assess the collection and display of visual objects.

Core modules

Curatorial Practice Now

The Art of Looking

The Practices of Art History

Materials of Art and Architecture

Objects in Focus (Curating)

Option modules

You will study one option module. Examples can be found below. Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.

Transmissions and Connections

Language elective

Academic integrity module

In addition to the above you will also need to complete our online Academic Integrity module.

This module covers some of the essential skills and knowledge which will help you to study independently and produce work of a high academic standard which is vital for success at York.

This module will:

define academic integrity and academic misconduct

provide interactive exercises to help you to assess whether you've understood the concepts

provide answers to FAQs and links to useful resources.

In your second year you'll be able to choose from modules across a wide historical, geographical, and theoretical range. The emphasis will be on learning to think about exhibitions and displays. You can also choose to study art law, which includes a networking panel with experts in the field.

You can choose to take a placement at an arts institution with Curatorial Internship. Or, you can choose to receive structured training in collections care and management with Behind the Scenes: Curatorial Work in Practice. Both are excellent ways to develop your curatorial skill set. You'll receive detailed information to help you decide which route to opt for.

You'll also take part in a group project to plan an exhibition with the University Art Collection and fashion handling collection. For example, focusing on a particular display project or exhibition and explore the full process of developing an exhibition, including object selection and arrangement, the production of interpretive texts, catalogue conception, audience analysis, marketing, fundraising and more. You'll experience at first hand how curatorial theory intersects with the practical demands of planning an exhibition.

You'll take core modules that develop your curatorial skills and knowledge:

Either Curatorial Internship OR Behind the Scenes: Curatorial Work in Practice

Group Exhibition Project

You will study four option modules. Examples can be found below. Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.

Italian for Art History Level 2

Art and Its Institutions

Research Skills for Art History

Journeys, Histories, and Methods of Display

Curating the Dressed Body in Fashion History

Interwoven: Fashion and Clothing Communities in Art History (1800 - the Present)

Fashion, Sustainability, and Ethics

What is Pop Art?

Art in the USA 1942-1975

Surrealism: Art and Liberty

Made in Italy

The Future is Still Female: Art and Feminism since the 1970s

How to Be a Critic

The Emergence of Photography

Camera South Asia

Indo-British Art, c.1527-1947

Cut / Bite / Stamp: The Power of the Printed Image in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Painting in Eighteenth-Century Britain

The English Country House

Three Rogue Architects

Images as Knowledge

Material Encounters in Northern Renaissance Art

Contemplation, Knowledge and Power: Medieval Maps

The Arts of Italy and the ‘Global Renaissance’

Art in Renaissance Florence: Materials, Making, Agency

From Brick into Stone: Islamic Architecture in Anatolia During the Long Thirteenth Century

Looting, Acquiring, Gifting: The Islamic Art Market and Museums

Babylon-Berlin: Ancient Art and Modern Museology

Art and Iconoclasm: The Power of Images

The First Cities: Art and Architecture of Ancient Mesopotamia

Elective modules

You may be able to replace one option module with an elective module, studying a complementary subject, a language or an interdisciplinary topic.

In your third year you'll continue to explore your own interests from a wide variety of time periods, contexts and media. Modules change to reflect the latest research and developments.

You'll also work on your 7,000-8,000-word dissertation. This will give you a chance to explore an interesting topic in significant detail, and must have a significant curatorial aspect.

BA Dissertation

The Arts of Italy and the Global Renaissance

Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.

Study abroad

There are opportunities for you to spend time abroad during your course:

Explore global opportunities

We also offer BA Curating and Art History (with a year abroad).

Real-world experiences

Find your edge by gaining practical experience that boosts your employability. Explore diverse opportunities to apply your knowledge and build vital professional skills, such as placements, internships and part-time jobs.

Learning outcomes

Every course at York has been designed to provide clear and ambitious learning outcomes. These learning outcomes give you an understanding of what you will be able to do at the end of the course. We develop each course by designing modules that grow your abilities towards the learning outcomes and help you to explain what you can offer to employers. Find out more about our approach to teaching and learning.

Learning outcomes for this course

Deploy a broad knowledge of varied types of art and architecture from diverse periods and places, together with understanding of their historical, cultural and institutional contexts.

When encountering new visual material either first-hand or in reproduction, apply high-level descriptive and observational skills, develop critical visual analysis drawing upon an appropriate range of methodological approaches, and identify relevant sources for further research.

Analyse and evaluate how works of art are presented in museums, galleries and other settings, and demonstrate an understanding of how the contexts of collection, preservation and display have helped to shape the history of art.

Identify and engage with concepts, values and debates that inform contemporary curatorial practice, drawing on first-hand practical experience.

Communicate complex ideas effectively, both orally and in writing, well-supported by visual material where required, at varied lengths and registers appropriate to the context and intended audience.

Confront and interrogate widely-held assumptions, understand how interpretations of culture and its contexts have changed over time both incrementally and in more radical paradigm shifts, and continue to engage critically with future changes in ways of thinking.

Work both independently and as an effective team member in pursuit of an objective, exercising initiative and leadership when appropriate.

For Curating and Art History with a Year Abroad only. Adapt successfully to unfamiliar contexts and take advantage of the intellectual and wider benefits of intercultural experiences.

The fees and funding information here is for students starting in the 2027/28 academic year.

If you take a year abroad or year in industry you'll pay a reduced rate of fees for that year.

Annual tuition fees

UK (home)

International and EU

The UK government has announced its intention to increase tuition fees from £9,790 to £10,050 for the 2027/8 academic year. We expect this to apply to new UK (home) undergraduate students starting their studies in September 2027.

UK (home) or international fees?

The level of fee that you will be asked to pay depends on whether you're classed as a UK (home) or international student. Check your fee status.

Fees for subsequent years

UK (home) fees may increase within the government fee cap in subsequent academic years. We will notify you of any increase as soon as we can.

International fees are subject to increase in subsequent years in line with the prevailing Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate (up to a maximum of 10%).

More information

For more information about tuition fees, any reduced fees for study abroad and work placement years, scholarships, tuition fee loans, maintenance loans and living costs see undergraduate fees and funding.

Additional costs

We'll confirm more funding opportunities for students joining us in 2027/28 throughout the year.

UK government loans

UK scholarships and bursaries

International scholarships

Country-specific funding

US loans

Living costs

You can use our living costs guide to help plan your budget. It covers additional costs that are not included in your tuition fee such as expenses for accommodation and study materials.

Free online courses

Get a taste of university-level study on one of York's free short courses, including our subject course, 'Modern sculpture'.

I attended field trips every two weeks during my first term. The trips gave me a better understanding of conservation, heritage, curatorial practices, and the way that art shapes the places we live in.

Alizée, Curating and Art History student. Read Alizée's blog post.

York, Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial

Just four UK universities are rated Gold for teaching and top ten for research* in the latest national assessment exercises.

See why York is rated Gold for teaching

Explore our research performance

* Awarded joint 10th in the Times Higher Education ranking of the Research Excellence Framework 2021.

You’ll study and learn with academics who are active researchers, experts in their field and have a passion for their subjects. Our approach to teaching will provide you with the knowledge, opportunities, and support you need to grow and succeed in a global workplace. Find out more about our approach to teaching and learning.

Teaching format

You'll be taught by art historians that are writing some of the texts you'll read, as well as curating some of the exhibitions you'll see.

In your first year you'll attend seminars, tutorials, lectures and workshops. As the degree progresses you'll find you spend more time in seminars where you, with a small group of other students and a tutor, will discuss a topic for which you've done preliminary research and preparation. As your studies progress, you will be asked to give presentations or lead the discussions in seminars.

Timetabled activities

In your first year, you can expect:

Lectures

1-2 hours per week

Seminars

6 hours per week

Tutorials

1-2 hours per term

Workshops

These figures are representative of a typical week. Your contact hours will vary throughout the year due to your module choices, non-compulsory classes, exam periods and changes to scheduled activities.

Outside your timetabled hours, you'll study independently. This may include preparation for classes, follow-up work, wider reading, practice completion of assessment tasks, or revision.

In the UK, full-time students are expected to spend 1,200 hours a year learning. That's about 40 hours of classes and independent study each week during semesters. Everyone learns at a different rate, so the number of hours you spend on independent study will be different to other students on your course.

Facilities

The student-run Norman Rea Gallery gallery hosts exciting exhibitions throughout the year and promotes the work of both student and professional artists.

The University art collection contains a wide variety of works, from ancient to contemporary, across a diverse array of materials, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, prints, book art, photography, and textiles. The collection includes key work by internationally significant artists including Barbara Hepworth and Jacob Epstein, Paul Nash and Sydney Nolan, R B Kitaj and Elizabeth Blackadder. The collection is available for innovative curatorial displays and exhibitions on and beyond campus.

There are also many libraries and galleries nearby.

Teaching location

You will be based in the Department of History of Art on Campus West. You will also take advantage of our curatorial facilities and exhibition spaces in Heslington Hall.

York is the perfect place to inspire your studies, with a rich and turbulent history stretching back to the Romans. Today the city boasts beautiful historic architecture, as well as museums, galleries, and archives.

About our campus

Our beautiful green campus offers a student-friendly setting in which to live and study, within easy reach of the action in the city centre. It's easy to get around - everything is within walking or pedalling distance, or you can use the fast and frequent bus service. Take a campus tour.

Assessment and feedback

We use a number of different assessment formats:

Open papers - a take home exam that lasts for a set amount of days

Group-project

Internship portfolio

Research dissertation (of around 7,000-8,000 words).

Careers and skills

You'll develop skills that are attractive to a wide range of employers, but particularly suitable for careers in cultural roles such as gallery/museum curator, the art market, conservation and journalism.

During you'll degree you'll find many exciting opportunities for gaining relevant and useful curatorial and museological skills. In previous years students have worked with organisations such as York Museums Trust, the National Trust and Rievaulx Abbey, on events, exhibitions, heritage and outreach.

Career opportunities

Recent graduates from the department have gone on to roles that include:

Gallery director

Conservation officer

Art consultant

They've worked for a range of organisations including:

National Museum of Wales

Museums Sheffield

Sotheby's

Christie's

Transferable skills

As well as gaining skills applicable to art history and curatorships you'll also develop skills that can be used across academic disciplines and throughout your career:

Researching complex topics

Thinking analytically and independently

Presentation and team working

Turn ambition into achievement with our expert guidance and connections. From your first day here to life after graduation, we'll help you find your career advantage.

Qualification

A levels

You do not need an A level in History of Art.

Access to Higher Education Diploma

Obtain Access to HE Diploma with 36 credits at Distinction and 9 credits at Merit or higher

BTEC National Extended Diploma

We consider a range of BTEC qualifications equivalent to 3 A Levels, or in combination with A Levels or other qualifications. For example:

Distinction, Distinction in BTEC Level 3 National Diploma plus A at A Level

Distinction in BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate plus AA at A level

Distinction, Distinction in 2 BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificates plus A at A level

European Baccalaureate

International Baccalaureate

35 points

T levels

Distinction overall including grade A in the Core

T Level subjects in Accounting; Design and Development for Engineering and Manufacturing; Design, Surveying and Planning for Construction; Digital Business Services; Digital Production, Design and Development; Digital Support and Services; Engineering, Manufacturing, Processing and Control; Finance; Health; Healthcare Science; Legal Services; Maintenance, Installation and Repair for Engineering and Manufacturing; Management and Administration; Marketing; Science

Scottish Highers / Advanced Highers

Scottish Highers - AABBB

Advanced Highers - not required for entry

We may also be able to consider three Advanced Highers or a combination of Highers and Advanced Highers, where an applicant does not meet the grade requirement through Highers alone. Please contact us to discuss your qualifications.

UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Art and Design

Distinction. We will also consider other qualifications from the University of the Arts London in different specialisms, at Level 3 or higher.

International foundation programme

Foundation Certificate from our International Pathway College or an appropriate alternative.

Other international qualifications

Equivalent qualifications from your country

Alternative offers

Meeting the following additional criteria may qualify you for an alternative offer.

Criteria

Adjustment

Widening participation

This is conditional upon successful completion of the WP programme including the YorJourney module (Black Access Programme, Next Step York) or successful completion of Realising Opportunities More about widening participation.

Contextual offer

If you achieve C or higher in the EPQ, you may be eligible for an alternative offer up to one A level grade (or equivalent) below our typical offer.

Core Maths

If you achieve B or higher in Core Maths, you may be eligible for an alternative offer up to one A level grade (or equivalent) below our typical offer.

If you successfully complete our online course Modern Sculpture: An Introduction to History of Art, you may be eligible for an alternative offer up to one A level grade (or equivalent) below our typical offer. Details about how to evidence completion of the MOOC will be sent in your offer letter. Please note: you do not need to pay for the certificate. More about MOOCs.

English language

If English isn't your first language you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept the following qualifications:

Minimum requirement

IELTS (Academic)

6.5, with a minimum of 6.0 in each component

Other English language qualifications

To see what other language tests we can accept and the scores required, visit our IELTS equivalences webpage and click on the IELTS requirement for your chosen course.

We also accept various school-leaving certificates to meet our English Language requirements. Please visit our country-specific information for further details.

For more information see our undergraduate English language requirements.

If you haven't met our English language requirements

You may be eligible for one of our pre-sessional English language courses. These courses will provide you with the level of English needed to meet the conditions of your offer.

The length of course you need to take depends on your current English language test scores and how much you need to improve to reach our English language requirements.

After you've accepted your offer to study at York, we'll confirm which pre-sessional course you should apply to via You@York.

To apply to York, you'll need to complete an online application via UCAS (the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service).

How to apply

We normally make offers based on your UCAS application. However, if you have been away from study for some time you may be invited to interview.

If you receive an offer we'll invite you to one of our visit days which gives you a chance to experience our teaching style and to meet staff and students here. You'll also be able to explore the facilities of both our department and the wider University.

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