Degree in History of Art
240 credits - Faculty of Philosophy and Arts
The Degree in History of Art provides knowledge on the development of art and its contribution to the history of culture throughout time and today, on the creative processes and reception of a work of art, as well as on the conservation, management and promotion of historical-artistic heritage.
Thanks to a general training that ensures fundamental concepts are acquired, as well as practical training that enables the necessary skills and abilities to be achieved (collecting and interpreting relevant data on the area under study, handling essential sources and information technologies, undertaking comprehensive analyses of works of art, carrying out core inventory and cataloguing tasks, understanding, speaking and writing in English, etc.), this programme prepares students for professional practice in the different areas, duties and activities of art historians and for those who so wish, taking specialised postgraduate training.
Credit Summary
| Core Training | Mandatory | Elective Subjects | External Practicum | Final Degree Project | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60 | 144 | 30 | - | 6 | 240 |
Subject list by year and semester
Subjects
First Year
First Semester
Visual Culture: Themes and Symbols in the History of Art*
Introduction to the History of I: Ancient and Mediaeval*
The Idea of Europe throughout History*
Introduction to Literary Studies*
Oral and Written Expression Techniques*
Second Semester
Reading and Analysis of Art and Architecture*
Introduction to the History of Art II: Modern and Contemporary*
The Mass Media and Audiovisual Languages*
Philosophy in the Current World*
Comprehension and Interpretation of Academic Texts in
English*
Second Year
First Semester
Origins of Art in the Middle East
Classical Art: Greece and Rome
Art and Folk Architecture
History of Cinema
Concepts, Development and Characteristics
of Cultural Heritage
Second Semester
Late Antiquity Art in the 4th-10th Centuries
Mediaeval Art I (1000-1250)
Museology and Museography
Foundations for the History of Art
The History of Aesthetic Ideas I
Third Year
First Semester
Mediaeval Art II (1200-1500)
Renaissance Art
Baroque Art
The History of Aesthetic Ideas II
Elective 1
Second Semester
19th-Century Art
History of Urbanism
20th-Century Art to 1945
Critical, Theoretical and Methodological Knowledge of the History
of Art
Elective 2
Fourth Year
First Semester
Ancient and Mediaeval Art in the Balearic Islands
Decorative and Industrial Arts
History of Photography
Art since 1945
Modern Art in Spain
* Core Training
Second Semester
Modern and Contemporary Art in the Balearic Islands
Final Degree Project - History of Art
Elective 3
Elective 4
Elective 5
Skills
Core Skills
- Showing the knowledge in history of art has been acquired and understood, starting from obligatory secondary education level to one which, although based on advanced textbooks, includes some aspects that involve knowledge from the vanguard of the subject.
- Knowing how to professionally use history of art knowledge in work or a vocation, and having the skills normally demonstrated through the production and defence of arguments and problem solving within the area of study.
- Having the ability to collect and interpret relevant data in the area to issue opinions that include a reflection on important social, scientific or ethical issues.
- Being able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a specialised and more general audience.
- Developing the necessary learning skills to undertake postgraduate studies with a high level of independence.
- Knowledge of English: the ability to understand, speak and write in English to an intermediate level.
Specific Skills
- Fundamental skills (knowledge of the discipline). A critical awareness of spatial and time frames (diachronic and synchronic) and the geographic and cultural limits and interlinks in history of art.
- Fundamental skills (knowledge of the discipline). A general diachronic vision of universal history of art.
- Fundamental skills (knowledge of the discipline). A regional diachronic and comprehensive vision of territorial artistic phenomena.
- Fundamental skills (knowledge of the discipline). Specific and elective knowledge of the history of art.
- Fundamental skills (knowledge of the discipline). Knowledge of the different methods to approach history of art and its historical contingency (art historiography).
- Fundamental skills (knowledge of the discipline). Systematic comprehensive knowledge of art: different languages (architecture and urbanism, sculpture, painting, photography, cinema, music, decorative and sumptuary arts), artistic production procedures and techniques throughout history. Aesthetic theory and thought.
- Fundamental skills (knowledge of the discipline). Knowledge of the main literary and documentary sources of history of art.
- Fundamental skills (knowledge of the discipline). Core knowledge of iconography as a key to interpreting images.
- Applied and professional knowledge (know-how). Practical knowledge of the core processes to scientific methodology in history of art: state of the art, comprehensive analyses of works of art, refocussing problems, searching for unpublished information, hypotheses, critical processes of synthesis, ordered formulation of conclusions.
- Applied and professional skills (know-how). Knowledge of history and current problems in conservation, restoration and management criteria for historical, artistic and cultural heritage.
- Applied and professional skills (know-how). Core knowledge of museology and museography.
- Applied and professional skills (know-how). Knowledge of documentation, material composition and construction techniques for artistic movable and immovable property.
- Applied and professional skills (know-how). Knowledge of art collection management: art inventory, documentation, cataloguing, exhibitions and promotion.
- Applied and professional skills (know-how). Instrumental knowledge applied to history of art: the core skills to interpret and use graphics, drawing, photography, moving images, IT and materials for a work of art.