该计划将以研究为主导，以高级的艺术水平研究艺术史和现代历史，学生将了解如何知识的创造，发展和更新。该计划将鼓励所有学生以好奇心，正直，准确和严谨的态度追求独立学习的愿望。这是一个为期48个月的学习课程，可获文学硕士学位（荣誉学位）。与所有圣安德鲁斯计划一样，该计划由承担信用的模块组成。在课程期间，学生必须获得480个学分，通常每个学年获得120个学分。通常，前两年的学习包括特定于该计划的核心模块以及从一系列选项中选择的其他模块（在某些情况下，包括来自不同学院的模块）。剩余的几年中，通过模块提供针对特定课程
The MA (Hons) in Art History will teach you critically and perceptively to assess artworks of all kinds, allowing you to become visually and verbally articulate. The main focus of the course is on the major arts of painting, sculpture and architecture, but it also encompasses applied art, graphic art, performance art and photography. As part of your degree, you will learn to analyse the style, content, meaning, theory and aesthetics of artworks. You will engage with different critical frameworks that allow you to explore the implicit and explicit ideas behind each work.The MA (Hons) in Art History is a four-year course run by the School of Art History. Art history is a well-rounded discipline that embraces aspects of economic, social and political history, languages and literature, philosophy and psychology, and provides relevant contexts and critical approaches with which to analyse works of art. In your first year, you will cover two main areas of study. The first comprises medieval and Renaissance art in Europe and beyond. It has a particular focus on the social, political and religious conditions under which art was produced, and examines points of contact with the wider world.The second course analyses art and architecture in the 17th and 18th centuries, primarily (but not only) in Europe, addressing technological advances, widening audiences, and processes of colonisation.