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EUROPEAN ART HISTORY
CERTIFICATE/DIPLOMA
NFQ
6+7
Certificate – Level 6
Diploma – Level 7
OVERVIEW/AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
This course is not simply about art history; it is about making connections between the visual arts and other aspects of human creativity throughout history. At a time when questions about the nature of Europe, and what it means to be European, are becoming increasingly important to ask this new cycle of the certificate and diploma programmes will seek to explore the concept of European identity as displayed through the visual arts beginning with Egypt, and Classical Greece and ending with art in the 21st Century. To assist participants in understanding the context of artistic production and creativity connections will be made between the visual arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and literature, music, film, politics, philosophy, science and society. The aim of this two-year programme will be to give you a complete education in looking at and discussing about the visual arts within historical and cultural contexts.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Candidates must be at least 21 years of age by 1 January of the year of application and have Leaving Certificate (or equivalent qualification)/FETAC Level 5 qualification. Candidates who do not have Leaving Certificate or FETAC Level 5 but are over 21 years of age and have an interest in the visual arts and their significance within society may be deemed suitable, subject to the approval of the CACE Committee.
English Language Requirement
All applicants whose first language is not English must have attained IELTS Level 6 or the equivalent TOEFL score.
Note: Students who successfully complete the Certificate year of this programme and who do not wish to proceed to Year 2 may exit the programme with a Certificate in European Art History.
PROGRAMME MODULES
Year 1
\HA1800\ Introduction to the Formation of European Art - 5 credits
Objective: To introduce students to the origins of the Western visual culture. It will examine the visual art and culture of the Mediterranean world and mainland Europe from classical Greece to the monasteries and cathedrals of northern Europe.
\AD1839\ The Art of Northern Europe - 5 credits
Objective: To introduce students to the art and culture of early Nethelandish and Flemish Art. The early history of oil painting will be a focus and the influence of trade and commerce on the transmission of ideas and styles across Europe will be discussed.
\HA1801\ Renaissance Studies - 10 credits
Objective: To introduce students to the art and culture of the European Renaissance. This module will discuss the meaning of “Renaissance” and will examine diverse Renaissance cultures in Italy, Britain, France and Central Europe.
\AD1840\ The Age of the Baroque - 10 credits
Objective: To introduce students to the art of the Baroque period. This module will examine the effects of the sixteenth century Reformation movements on the arts and culture of Europe.
Year 2
\AD2838\ Art in the Age of Enlightenment - 5 credits
Objective: This module will survey Western art and culture, 1750s–1815. The module will examine the visual culture of the Rococo and Neo-Classical movements in painting, architecture, sculpture and furniture.
\AD2839\ Revolutions and Reactions - 5 credits
Objective: This module will survey Western art and culture, 1790s –1848. This module will discuss the effects of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic period on the arts and visual culture of Europe.
\AD2840\ A Crisis of Traditions - 10 credits
Objective: This module introduces mid-nineteenth century European art, architecture and sculpture and the decorative arts, 1848-1900. This module will discuss the aesthetics of the craftsmanship through the Arts and Crafts movement and revival movements such as the Gothic and Classical Revival movements.
\HA2802\ Art since 1900 - 10 credits
Objective: This concluding module places modern and contemporary art in its wider social, historical and theoretical context. The module introduces participants to a vocabulary to appropriately describe modern and contemporary art. The role of the gallery plays in contemporary visual culture will be a focus of discussion.
Study Tours
The programme schedules study trips throughout the two-year cycle. Previous classes have gone to Rome, Paris, London and Edinburgh. We also visit Cork galleries and galleries in Dublin. These trips are optional and a supplementary fee may apply.
Triskel-Christchurch
In response to popular demand, Adult Continuing Education is pleased to announce an exciting new collaboration with the Triskel Arts Centre at Christchurch, to host the Certificate and Diploma in European Art History as a daytime programme, for the first time in the programme’s twenty-one year existence, beginning in late September 2012.
Programme Cost
| €1,250 for the academic year 2012- 2013
Application
Centre for Adult Continuing Education
UCC
t: +353 21 4902301
| Morning Venue - Triskel-Christchurch – classes will take place in Triskel-Christchurch in Cork city centre, 10-1pm on Tuesday mornings from the end of September 2012.
| Evening Venue - University College Cork – classes will take place in West Wing 9, in the main UCC Quadrangle, 7-9pm on Tuesday evenings from the end of September 2012.
Please mark your preferred option either “daytime” or “evening” when making your application.
| Closing Date: 14th September, 2012.
Further information
James Cronin
Programme Co-ordinator
Centre for Adult Continuing Education
UCC
t: +353 21 4902301 or +353 21 4903941
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