History of Art

The University of Edinburgh
Postgraduate MSc (Res) Full-time 1 Year HistoryHistory of art

About this course

At Edinburgh College of Art within the History of Art department we provide a dynamic and supportive research environment in which your MSc by Research studies would be situated. The MSc by Research programme is for students who have strong research skills in place and wish to include a substantial research element within their study, and those who also wish to focus their interests and deepen their knowledge of a specific topic.

The research topics that we can supervise includes but is not limited to:

* Medieval Art History

* South Asian Art History

* Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures

* Eighteenth-Century History of Art

* Modern and Contemporary Art History

* Islamic Art

* Nineteenth-Century Art

* Curatorial Theory and Practice

* Scottish Visual Culture

* Early Modern

* Contemporary Art History and Digital Culture

* Contemporary German Art

* Chinese Art

Study Options

This course is available in 2 study options:

Full-time Shown above

Duration: 1 Year

Qualification: MSc (Res)

Location: Edinburgh

Part-time

Duration: 2 Years

Qualification: MSc (Res)

Location: Edinburgh

Career Prospects

Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

2435 Professional/Chartered company secretaries
3412 Authors, writers and translators
2472 Archivists, conservators and curators
4135 Library clerks and assistants
4214 Company secretaries and administrators
3411 Artists

Course Details

Qualification
MSc (Res)
Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
1 Year
Start Date
2025
Academic Year
2025
Campus / Location
Edinburgh
Scheme
Postgraduate
Subjects
History, History of art