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Master of Arts

Initial Information:

For the multi-subject Master’s course History and Culture (MA) (Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften), Art History can be studied as a:

recommended study course plan, MA (Art History as major)

  • Major (50 CP + thesis)
  • Minor (40 CP)

The degree programme as a major is divided into five modules:

  • Pictures, Structures and Their Contexts (10 CP)
  • Picture Theory (10 CP)
  • New Research: Readings and Discussions (10 CP)
  • Museology, Exhibiting and Collecting (10 CP)
  • Reception in the Ancient World (10 CP)

As a minor, you will study all modules listed above with the exception of “Reception in the Ancient World”. The MA in Art History as a major is concluded with the Dissertation Module History of Art (30 CP).

Programme Start: Every winter term.

Application deadline: 15 July.

Programme Content:

Art History at JLU Giessen is a long-standing academic discipline. Art History as a subject is embedded in the MA History and Culture and offers a degree programme which covers the history of art as well as issues in visual theories, cultural and media studies. Thus, students acquire a strongly research-oriented qualification in Art History.

 

Entrance Requirements:

Prerequisites for acceptance into the Master’s course with Art History as a major are:

  • proof of competences in art history in a narrower sense from a BA degree (completed at a university with the right to award doctorate degrees) with at least 56 CP OR
  • Completion of the BA History and Culture at JLU with Art History as a first (80 CP) or second (70 CP) major subject. If you studied Art History is a first minor subject (40 CP) only, you will have to make up the Contextualisation Module (8 CP) and a second Epoch Module (8 CP) from the BA degree during your first two semesters of the MA.

Prerequisites for acceptance into the Master’s course with Art History as a minor are:

  • proof of competences in art history in a narrower sense from a BA degree (completed at a university with the right to award doctorate degrees) with at least 40 CP OR
  • Completion of the BA History and Culture at JLU with Art History as a first minor subject (40 CP).
The version of the exam regulations valid at the start of your studies contains information on the required language skills and how to prove them.

Perspectives:

A Master’s degree in Art History enables access to a variety of professional fields in museums and the exhibition sector, heritage preservation, art-dealing, tourism and journalism. For a research-oriented or scientific occupation (e.g., at university but also at many museums) a doctoral degree (doctoral thesis and its defence) is required which in turn requires successful completion of the Master’s degree.

 

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