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Aesthetics and Art Theory MA
Aesthetics and Art Theory MA

Aesthetics and Art Theory MA

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  • Level:Master's Degree
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Admission Requirements

Entry Requiment

English Requiment

Academic IELTS of 6.5 overall with no element below 5.5

Other Requiment

Typical offer

  • Applicants should normally hold a good (upper-second [2:1] or first-class honours, or the equivalent) undergraduate degree in Philosophy or a related subject.
  • Applicants with other kinds of qualifications will be considered on an individual basis.

Course Information

Recognised as one of the most significant and innovative courses in its field and highly-regarded in the international art world, this Aesthetics and Art Theory MA course combines a grounding in philosophical aesthetics in the modern European tradition with study of contemporary art theory and the philosophy of art history.

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You'll study canonical authors including Adorno, Aristotle, Benjamin, Deleuze, Derrida, de Duve, Duchamp, Greenberg, Heidegger, Kant, Krauss, Rancière, and Schlegel, and gain a clear overview of the main philosophical approaches to modern and contemporary art.

The course will distinguish between ‘aesthetic', ‘Romantic' ‘Modernist' and ‘Contemporary' (global) problematics, and will offer a distinctive grounding in ongoing debates over the reception of contemporary art.

Modules

You may also choose from a range of option modules from the Modern European Philosophy and Philosophy & Contemporary Critical Theory MA courses.

You'll take one core taught module worth 30 credits, and then choose three other 30-credit modules from a range of options, before preparing the 15,000 word dissertation (worth 60 credits).

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Pre Courses

Pre-sessional English course

Type of course

Time

Entry Requirement

Fees

Extended

6 April – 4 September 

Your IELTS Academic* scores are no more than 2.0 below your academic programme's English language entry requirements overall and / or in one or more skills: reading, writing, listening and / or speaking.

£8400

Long

18 May – 4 September

Your IELTS Academic* scores are no more than 1.5 below your academic programme's English language entry requirements overall and / or in one or more skills: reading, writing, listening and / or speaking.

£6420

Medium

22 June – 4 September

(Summer)

 

28 September – 11 December

(Autumn)

Your IELTS Academic* scores are no more than 1.0 below your academic programme's English language entry requirements overall and/or in one or more skills: reading, writing, listening and / or speaking.

£4440

Short

27 July – 4 September

 

 

2 November – 11 December

Your IELTS Academic* scores are no more 0.5 below your academic programme's English language entry requirements overall and/or in one or more skills: reading, writing, listening and or speaking.

£2400

Please note: Students with IELTS Academic* scores of below 4.0 overall or in individual skills are not eligible for our courses.

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Pathway Courses

 

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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

Our graduates often progress to research degrees in European philosophy and critical theory, or to careers in media/journalism, publishing, the arts, education, and public policy.

For example, recent graduates from the Aesthetics and Art Theory MA course have progressed to the following:

  • Michael Sperlinger has become assistant director of the arts agency Lux (London);
  • Marta Kuzma has become director of the Office of Contemporary Art Norway (Oslo);
  • Ruth Blacksell has become a lecturer and associate director of O-SB Design, University of Reading;
  • Louise Hanson has begun a PhD at Brasenose College, Oxford;
  • Dessislava Dimova is finishing a PhD at the Bulgarian Academy;
  • Anda Klavina is now a curator at the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (Riga);
  • Kate Parker is director of City Projects (London);
  • John Millar began a PhD at CRMEP in autumn 2015 having been awarded a TECHNE-AHRC Consortium Studentship;
  • Andrey Shental is senior editor at Theory and Practice while contributing to several other Russian periodicals, including Artchronika;
  • Alex Fletcher has been awarded a 3-Year PhD AHRC Studentship by the TECHNE consortium, to work on 'Spaces of Capital: Narrating Social Space and Time in the Photo and Video Essay' in the CRMEP;
  • Josefine Wikström has begun a PhD in the CRMEP on Ontologies of Production and Performance;
  • Luke Skrebowski submitted his PhD in CRMEP simultaneously with the dissertation for this, his second MA. He now lectures in art history at the University of Cambridge;
  • Gil Leung is distribution manager at the Lux Arts Agency, London, and editor of VERSUCH journal. She previously worked as assistant curator for Tate Film and Live Programmes; and
  • Pilar Villela Mascaro is a freelance curator in Mexico City.

Ability to settle

Overseas Student Health Cover

Insurance_fee: £300(GBL)/year

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