艺术史是一门充满活力的学科，将对视觉艺术的严格考察与对艺术与文化，政治和社会联系的创造性探索相结合。该领域的研究生课程将对您进行深入的研究，思考和研究艺术及其历史。我们的艺术史硕士课程可让您了解关键的艺术史方法，并允许您通过讲授的选择深入研究早期和现代（包括当代）时期您特别感兴趣的领域和时期（请参阅下面的指示性模块清单）下面的“课程结构”）和独立研究。它可以激发您的视觉敏锐度和对艺术历史的理解，同时可以激发激烈的辩论并扩展您的研究技能。
Our MA History of Art trains you at an advanced level in looking at, thinking about and researching art and its histories. It exposes you to key art historical approaches and allows you to focus in depth on areas and periods of particular interest to you, in early and modern (including contemporary) periods. It develops your visual acuity while stimulating critical debate and building your research skills. Why choose this course Birkbeck is one of the leading universities for the study of the history of art as a culturally and historically engaged discipline. Our teaching staff are internationally recognised experts conducting ground-breaking research in periods from medieval to contemporary. You will have the opportunity to take a ten-week supervised work placement in a museum, gallery or archive. Previous placements have been offered at Tate, the British Museum, the Science Museum, Whitechapel Gallery and the Horniman Museum and have included helping design and run school programmes, documenting collections previously uncatalogued, conducting visitor research, and assisting curators in producing exhibitions. Your studies will be enriched by museum, gallery and site visits, visiting speakers and screenings, as we make the most of the renowned and incredibly rich art collections, monuments and study facilities in London. You will join our vibrant postgraduate research culture studying with a diverse and dynamic student body of all ages and backgrounds. What you will learn History of art is a rich and dynamic discipline which combines rigorous investigation of the visual arts with creative exploration of their connections to culture, politics and society. You will study the visual arts and built environment as a central element of human endeavour in a stimulating, broad-ranging and in-depth way. You will master a wide range of methods and sources, including archives, collections, historical and contemporary texts, and a broad spectrum of artistic media from cathedrals to digital installations. This will give you advanced skills, much desired by many employers, in analysis, argument and communication. You will also have the chance to follow your interests choosing from a wide range of option modules to explore various media in depth, such as painting, sculpture, print culture, architecture, digital art, photography and performance. How you will learn You can study this course full- or part-time. It has an evening timetable with classes taking place in the evening. Classes may be in the form of short lectures, seminar and small-group discussions, or group tasks such as the analysis of texts and visual material. In these we encourage debate enlivened by the diverse perspectives and experience of Birkbeck students, some of whom already have strong professional links with the cultural and heritage sectors. Option modules may include organised visits to museums and galleries, collections and heritage sites. In your final year, you will devise your own research project for the dissertation, supervised by one of our specialists.