Art History and Curatorial Studies

Program Overview

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Art History and Curatorial Studies

About the course

The Art History and Curatorial Studies major blends knowledge of art history with practical curatorial skills, giving students the opportunity to work in arts management, museum and gallery curation, as well as art criticism and analysis.

Course Details

Status

• Available from 2025

Locations

• Perth (Crawley campus)

Attendance

• Full-time
• Part-time

Delivery

• On-campus

Starting dates

• Semester 1, Semester 2

Level of study

• Undergraduate

Course Code

• MJD-ARHCU

Full time/part time duration

• 3 years full time

Honours Available

• Yes

Course Structure

Level 1

• Core:
  • HART1000 Ways of Making: The Creative Process and Material History of Art (6)
  • HART1003 Ways of Seeing: Themes and Theories in Art (6)
• Option:
  • Take unit(s) to the value of 12 points:
    • ARTF1054 Drawing Foundations (6)
    • COMM1002 Cultures, New Media and Communications (6)
    • INDG1160 Boodjar Moort Katitjin: Introduction to Indigenous Heritage and Knowledge (6)
    • LACH1020 The Culture of Nature (6)

Level 2

• Core:
  • ARTF2000 Curatorial Practices in Contemporary Arts (6)
  • HART2274 Introduction to Museum and Curatorial Studies (6)
• Option:
  • Take unit(s) to the value of 18 points:
    • ANTH2902 Entangled Objects (6)
    • HART2001 Curating First Nations Art (6)
    • HART2020 Digital Approaches to Art History and Curation (6)
    • HART2040 The Lives and Deaths of Objects (6)
    • HART2041 The Art of Photography (6)
    • HART2043 Zen to Manga: A Survey of Japanese Art (6)
    • HART2044 Contemporary Art and Tradition in China (6)
    • HART2045 Making the Modern Body: Art and the Human Form (6)
    • HART2201 Art and Urban Experience (6)
    • HART2203 (Inter)national History of Art Study Tour (6)
    • HART2207 Caravaggio and the Baroque (6)
    • HART2222 Contemporary Art (6)
    • HART2223 Global Modernisms: New York to Senegal (6)
    • HART2275 Italian Renaissance Art Now (6)
    • HART2370 Global Art Histories (6)
    • INDG2600 Indigenous Representation: Cultural Heritage and The Museum (6)

Level 3

• Core:
  • HART3030 Advanced Professional Skills in Curation (6)
  • HART3332 Art Object Lab: Materiality, Meaning, and Display (6)
• Option:
  • Take unit(s) to the value of 18 points:
    • HART3001 Curating First Nations Art (6)
    • HART3044 Contemporary Art and Tradition in China (6)
    • HART3203 (Inter)national History of Art Study Tour (6)
    • HART3204 Curatorial Studies Internship (6)
    • HART3276 Prints from Dürer to Toulouse-Lautrec (6)
    • HART3301 Manet and the French Avant-Garde (6)
    • HART3330 Art Writing (6)
    • HART3333 Picturing the Self: Portraiture in Nineteenth-century Europe (6)
    • HART3361 Decolonizing the Dutch Golden Age (6)
    • HART3371 The Northern Renaissance (6)
    • HART3375 Twenty-first-century Art (6)
    • HART3666 Australian and Aboriginal Art (6)

You'll learn to

• speak and write clearly about visual art
• understand the history of visual art and its contexts
• work with objects through object-based analysis
• gain experience with exhibition design and exhibition proposals
• explore opportunities for work placements in galleries, museums and remote Aboriginal art centres

Our academics

• Dr Emily Brink
• Susanne Meurer
• Arvi Wattel
• Darren Jorgensen

Why study Art History and Curatorial Studies at UWA?

• Explore the ongoing significance of art as a public platform for shaping and interpreting the world we live
• Obtain a qualification that will give you access to inspiring careers in the art world
• You may take units taught overseas - recent destination include Paris, Rome and China
• You'll be taught by internationally recognised historians

Admission requirements

• For applicants with recent secondary education, information on admission criteria is available on our entry requirements page or on the UWA Handbook for course specific requirements and prerequisites.

English competency

• English is the language of instruction and assessment at UWA and you will need to meet the English language requirements of the University to be eligible for a place.
• Minimum overall IELTS score of 6.5, with no band less than 6.0.

Fees and scholarships

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Cost of living

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