Honours in Art History and Theory

Who is eligible to enrol?

The prerequisite for Art History and Theory honours is a credit average in 48 senior credit points of Art History and Theory.

If you do not meet this requirement, you should discuss your situation with the Honours Coordinator, .

How do I enrol?

Prospective Honours students should make preliminary enquiries with the Department. This is not a formal enrolment and does not commit you to Honours should you change your mind; it is simply helpful for the Department to gain some sense of student numbers, and for students as a way of beginning to think about supervisors and thesis topics.

Students must then apply to enrol in Honours through the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Courses Online.

If you miss this deadline, it may still be possible for you to enrol, but you should contact the Honours Coordinator and Faculty Office as soon as possible.

Once you have enrolled with the Arts and Social Sciences Faculty, you must also come to the Department by mid-December. You will be asked to provide your details indicate your proposed thesis topic and supervisor. If you cannot attend during this time, you should contact the Honours Coordinator.

Can I do Honours part time?

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences requires all students to enrol initially in Honours as full time. However, with Departmental approval, it is possible to change your enrolment to part time. Valid reasons include the need to seek employment and medical or personal reasons. Remember, however, that Honours can only be done part-time over two consecutive years, i.e. you cannot take a break in the middle. To change your enrolment, you will need a letter of approval from the Honours Coordinator to take to Arts and Social Sciences Faculty Office, where they will change your enrolment status.

UoS Assessment

The Honours year comprises two semester-long units of study and a thesis of 15,000 - 18,000 words in length.

Weighting of Honours year components :

• Thesis: 60%
• Two Coursework Units: 40%

Students are also able to undertake Film Studies Honours, please see the Film Studies website for further information.

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Additional Information

While knowledge of another language is not compulsory, university education provides many opportunities for acquiring or improving language skills which may be difficult to find later. These language skills are essential for research in many cases and are often highly valued by future employers, particularly in museums and art galleries. Students wishing to proceed to postgraduate research in Art History are therefore strongly advised to acquire a good reading knowledge of a language other than English. Furthermore, much significant scholarship is not translated (or if it is, much of its meaning changes); moreover, understanding of languages other than English helps one's command of English. A student may be precluded from doing postgraduate research in a particular area if s/he does not have reading knowledge of the appropriate language/s.