Understand the visual world
The programme Visual Cultures and Art History provides advanced historical and theoretical analysis of art and other related forms of visual representation and communication, but situates that analysis within the wider field of cultural production, under the term "visual culture." In the last 30 years or so, the meaning and identity of "art" has been a central topic of investigation and, consequently, traditional practices of art history.

See the visuals in wider context
The programme takes such scrutiny as its starting point. Hence, while the study of works of art will form the backbone of the programme, traditional stylistic, iconographic, semiological, and aesthetic modes of analysis (and their assumptions) will be viewed in the light of other modes of inquiry.

Understand other cultures
The primary focus is on Mediterranean, Caucasian, Euro-American art and visual cultures, but students will also be encouraged to engage with wider theories of globalisation and their pertinence for understanding economies of visual representation. This will include both specifically post-colonial perspectives to wider methods addressing issues in cross-cultural analysis.

This programme is divided into two main study directions: a more traditional teaching of lectures and seminars and interactive teaching including laboratories of humanities and professionalising activities. The student writes a Master’s thesis based on the relevant coursework. All teaching, coursework, and exams in this study programme are carried out in the English language.

Graduate profile

Graduates with this degree are capable of complex understanding of visual studies. They have a deep knowledge of premodern and modern visual and material culture, art history, and the role of images for societies across the globalised world. A graduate can analyze and interpret chosen issues related to visual studies in individual or group outputs, which can be professional (scholarly research; professional lecture) or popularising (essay; blog post; popularising publications; public lecture). Proposing a broader spectrum than traditional art history, graduates can be trained for research, cultural mediation, media, publishing, curatorship, and policymaking, as well as any profession that demands the ability to think and express themselves independently and critically.

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