Interested in the visual arts? If you’d like to learn more about the history and theory of arts – painting, sculpture, photography, prints, architecture, installations and video art – then the History of Art is for you. Study art from the Renaissance to the present day, and develop skills of visual analysis.
The study of visual culture can be especially rewarding, enabling a deeper understanding of how and why art works and why objects look as they do. Our courses also broaden your general knowledge and help you to understand the historical and cultural contexts of these works.
Studying History of Art will develop skills of analysis and interpretation that are highly valued by employers in the creative industries. History of Art graduates are widely employed in teaching, publishing and media, museums, galleries, the heritage industry and picture research.
Degrees
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Humanities
This degree allows you to combine modules on different aspects of the arts – what people thought, made and practised – and their meaning and values in the past and today. -
Humanities with Art History
This degree allows you to combine modules on different aspects of the arts – what people thought, made and practised – and their meaning and values in the past and today. -
Open degree
The BA/BSc Open Degree is a qualification that gives you a huge choice in terms of subjects and modules that you study to make up your degree.
Diplomas of Higher Education
Certificates of Higher Education
Courses in History of Art
See the list of all our individual courses in History of Art.
Postgraduate options
If you already have a degree, you may want to see postgraduate courses and qualifications in Arts and Humanities.
Subjects at the OU
Undergraduate subjects
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