Open University

BA (com honras) em História da Arte e Culturas Visuais

Knowledge and understanding

On completion of this degree, you will have knowledge and understanding of:

• Visual, material, and spatial cultures of more than one geographical region, and in both the past and the present, demonstrate a broad and comparative knowledge.
• Ways in which cultural values are produced, maintained, and contested, including the historic contingency of concepts of 'art', 'design', and 'architecture', and the limitations and partiality of such terms when explored across diverse geographical and historical settings.
• The established concepts, values, and debates of the discipline, are informed by current thinking and theoretical and methodological developments and tools.
• The historical, cultural, and personal contexts in which cultural artefacts, sites, and media have been produced and interpreted.
• The field's relationship with professional contexts, including the arts and heritage sector, and commercial and policy contexts.

Cognitive skills

On completion of this degree, you will be able to:

• Deploy appropriate techniques of analysis: the ability to break down an argument, a task, or a body of evidence, and deal effectively with its parts.
• Synthesis and summarization: effectively bringing together evidence and ideas from different sources while identifying and presenting key elements of an argument.
• Critical judgment: discriminating between alternative arguments and approaches.
• Problem-solving: applying knowledge and experience to make appropriate decisions in complex and incompletely charted contexts.

Practical and professional skills

On completion of this degree, you will be able to demonstrate your skills in:

• Literacy and confidence, engaging with a range of visual, material, and spatial materials and contexts.
• Time management and personal initiative: work to briefs and deadlines.
• Self-reflection and responsibility: to reflect on one’s learning.
• Transferable approaches and perspectives: to appreciate the transfer of learning about art history and visual culture to sectors and contexts beyond academia.

Key skills

On completion of this degree, you will be able to:

• Communicate: Produce assignments containing reasoned arguments and adequately weighed evidence in response to a specific question.
• Improve your performance: Improve your learning process by acting on pedagogic advice and feedback.
• Employ digital methods and frameworks: Demonstrate an ability to adopt a range of digital practices, tools, and resources appropriate to the subject.
• Conduct research: Demonstrate the capacity for critical, effective, and testable information retrieval and organization.
• Maintain open-mindedness: Be open and receptive to people, places, and ideas – new things, unfamiliar arguments, cultural artefacts, sites, and media.

This degree has three stages, each comprising 120 credits.

• You’ll start Stage 1 with a broad introduction to the arts and humanities followed by a module to develop your knowledge and skills.
• Next, in Stage 2, you’ll study art and visual cultures from prehistory to the present.
• Finally, at Stage 3, you’ll look at art in a global context, before completing your degree with a dissertation module.

Stage 1 (120 credits)

You'll study both of the following:

• Discovering the arts and humanities (A111)
• Cultures (A112)

Stage 2 (120 credits)

You'll study both of the following:

• Art and life before 1800 (A237)
• Art and visual cultures in the modern world (A236)

Stage 3 (120 credits)

You'll study both of the following:

• Art and its global histories (A344)
• Art and its critical histories (A336)

Assessment

Our assessments are all designed to reinforce your learning and help you show your understanding of the topics. The mix of assessment methods will vary between modules.

Computer-Marked Assignments

• Usually, a series of online, multiple-choice questions.

Tutor-Marked Assignments

• You’ll have a number of these throughout each module, each with a submission deadline.
• They can be made up of essays, questions, experiments or something else to test your understanding of what you have learned.
• Your tutor will mark and return them to you with detailed feedback.

End-of-Module Assessments

• The final, marked piece of work on most modules.
• Modules with an end-of-module assessment won’t usually have an exam.

Exams

• Some modules end with an exam. You’ll be given time to revise and prepare.
• You’ll be given your exam date at least 5 months in advance.
• Most exams take place remotely, and you will complete them at home or an alternative location.
• If a module requires you to take a face-to-face exam, this will be made clear in the module description, and you will be required to take your exam in person at one of our exam centres.

Skills for career development

O estudo de todas as artes promove o pensamento crítico, a análise e a comunicação. Esta qualificação vai além, permitindo que você desenvolva um alto nível de alfabetização visual e confiança no envolvimento com obras de arte de grandes artistas e outros materiais visuais importantes. Você poderá analisar obras de arte de uma ampla variedade de gêneros culturais e artísticos.

Você também terá excelentes habilidades de comunicação e será capaz de usar uma variedade de recursos digitais apropriados para o assunto, enquanto o projeto final aprimorará suas habilidades de pesquisa e seu gerenciamento independente de um trabalho acadêmico substancial. Essas habilidades essenciais são muito procuradas no mundo além dos estudos - quer você já esteja trabalhando, seja voluntário ou mudando de carreira.

Career relevance

O estudo das artes e das humanidades requer uma compreensão das atividades humanas em diversos ambientes culturais e contextos históricos. A amplitude da pesquisa e a variedade de textos e objetos culturais analisados, combinados com pensamento e comunicação claros, tornam o BA (Honras) História da Arte e Culturas Visuais relevante para uma ampla gama de carreiras, incluindo:

• Indústrias criativas e culturais
• Education
• Museus, galerias de arte e outras instituições artísticas
• Administração pública, governo local, serviço público e serviços sociais
• Publicidade, jornalismo, publicação e relações públicas
• Legal work
• Business, banking and retail
• Human resources
• Charities and campaigning.

Other careers

Many graduate-level jobs are open to graduates of any discipline, particularly in business, finance, management consultancy and the public sector. Some careers may require further study, training and/or work experience beyond your degree.

In addition to improving your career prospects, studying with the OU is an enriching experience that broadens your horizons, develops your knowledge, builds your confidence and enhances your life skills.

Com nossa abordagem única de ensino à distância, você pode estudar em casa, no trabalho ou em qualquer lugar.

Você terá alguns prazos de avaliação a cumprir, mas, fora isso, estará livre para estudar nos horários que lhe forem mais convenientes, conciliando seu aprendizado com o trabalho, a família e a vida social.

Para cada um dos seus módulos, você usará apenas recursos online ou uma mistura de materiais online e impressos.

Cada módulo que você estudar terá um site de módulo com

• Um planejador de estudos semanais, que fornece um guia passo a passo durante seus estudos
• Materiais do curso, como leitura, vídeos, gravações e atividades autoavaliadas
• Fóruns de módulos para discussões e atividades colaborativas com outros alunos
• Detalhes de cada tarefa e suas datas de entrega
• Um sistema de reserva de tutoriais, salas de tutoriais online e os detalhes de contato do seu tutor
• Versões on-line de alguns materiais e recursos impressos do módulo.