The Courtauld is delighted to launch a part-time research possibility for the Graduate Diploma in the History of Art programme for 2025/26 entry. Candidates can have the choice to check both the full-time nine-month programme, or the brand new part-time course operating over two tutorial years, permitting flexibility to check alongside work or different commitments.
The Graduate Diploma is a concentrated type of our BA History of Art degree and offers graduates of different disciplines the chance to use their current abilities to the research of Artwork Historical past. The programme is appropriate for candidates from a variety of backgrounds, together with recent graduates who’ve studied different topics, mid-career professionals who desire a profession change, and those that wish to research artwork historical past purely out of curiosity and private improvement.
The curriculum gives instructing throughout an unrivalled breadth of intervals and cultures. There’s the chance to check artwork and structure from late antiquity to the current, and from throughout the globe: from Byzantium to the Early Fashionable Islamic World, from Medieval and Renaissance Europe to the Buddhist Arts of Asia, and Modern China to Black Artwork Histories. College students look at artworks as bodily objects and scrutinise the function that museums play in society, in addition to researching and writing a dissertation supported by members of college.
Our pupil physique is a various combination of ages and nationalities, starting from latest graduates to those that have had profitable careers in finance, legislation, instructing and drugs: friendships and connections are shaped which final effectively past the period of the course. Earlier college students have gone on to additional research or to pursue careers within the artwork world and past.
The Graduate Diploma is taught in-person at our Vernon Sq. campus in King’s Cross. The complete-time programme is taught Monday to Friday, whereas the part-time possibility will likely be taught two days per week. Instructing for 2025 entry will begin in September, and end in June 2026 for full-time college students or June 2027 for part-time college students.
Review our application guidance and apply now to hitch in Autumn 2025.
? Discover out extra in regards to the Graduate Diploma programme and the brand new part-time possibility by joining our webinar on Tuesday 1 April, led by the course tutor Dr Teresa Lane.
