Course Content
The Bachelor of Art History and Curatorship requires completion of 144 units, of which:
A maximum of 60 units may come from completion of 1000-level courses;
A minimum of 84 units must come form completion of 2000- and 3000-level courses.
The 144 units must include:
24 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:
- ARTH1006 Art and Design Histories: Form and Space
- ARTH1007 Art and Design Histories: Making and Meaning
- ARTH3001 Curatorial Practice
12 units from completion of curatorship courses from the following list:
- ARTH2044 Art and Its Context: Materials, Techniques, Display
- ARTH2045 Curatorship History and Evolution
- ARTH3057 Art and Politics of Collecting
36 units from completion of art history and theory courses from the following list:
- ARTH2043 After the Bauhaus: Design from the Interwar Period to the Age of Climate Crisis
- ARTH2044 Art and Its Context: Materials, Techniques, Display
- ARTH2045 Curatorship History and Evolution
- ARTH2050 Photography and Art
- ARTH2052 Art of the Multiple
- ARTH2056 Art and Architecture of Southeast Asia: Tradition and Transformation
- ARTH2059 Art of Asia: Histories and Traditions
- ARTH2061 The Postmodern and the Contemporary: World art, 1970 to the present
- ARTH2080 Art and Visual Culture of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1815
- ARTH2081 Art of the European Courts, 1500-1815
- ARTH2082 Art, War and Conflict
- ARTH2097 Art of the Long Nineteenth Century
- ARTH2098 Australian First Nations Art and Culture
- ARTH2104 Asian Art In-Country
- ARTH2162 Art in the Digital Age
- ARTH2166 Individual Research Unit
- ARTH2167 Issues in Contemporary Craft and Design
- ARTH2168 Renaissance and Baroque Art
- ARTH2169 Introducing Asian Modernisms
- ARTH2170 Contemporary Asian Art
- ARTH2171 Australian Art: The Modern Period
- ARTH2173 Art and the Moving Image
- ARTH2174 Art, Medicine, Gender from the Renaissance until Today
- ARTH2175 Across the Pacific: Australian Interactions with American Art and Art-Worlds
- ARTH2176 Cross Currents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art and Culture
- ARTH3057 Art and Politics of Collecting
- ARTH3004 City Sites: Studies in Art, Design and Urbanity
Either:
24 units from completion of one of the following language minors:
- Advanced Ancient Greek
- Advanced Arabic
- Advanced Chinese Language
- Advanced French Studies
- Advanced German Studies
- Advanced Italian Studies
- Advanced Japanese Language
- Advanced Korean Language
- Advanced Latin
- Advanced Persian
- Advanced Sanskrit Language
- Advanced Spanish Studies
- Ancient Greek
- Arabic
- Burmese Language
- Chinese Language
- French Language and Culture
- German Language and Culture
- Hindi Language
- Indonesian Language
- Italian Language and Culture
- Japanese Language
- Japanese Linguistics
- Korean Language
- Latin
- Literary Chinese
- Mongolian Language
- Persian
- Russian
- Sanskrit Language
- Spanish
- Tetum Language
- Thai Language
- Tok Pisin Language
- Vietnamese Language
Or:
24 units from completion of courses listed in the following majors and minors:
- Ancient History Major
- Anthropology Major
- Archaeology Major
- Asian Art History Minor
- Design Minor
- Digital Humanities Major
- English Major
- History Major
- Screen Studies Major
- Visual Arts Practice Minor
48 units from completion of elective courses offered by ANU
Major Modules
Choose 1 for the completion of 48 units:
- Ancient History
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- English
- History
- Screen Studies
Minor Modules
Choose 1 for the completion of 24 units
- Advanced Ancient Greek
- Advanced Chinese Language
- Advanced French Studies
- Advanced German Studies
- Advanced Italian Studies
- Advanced Japanese Language
- Advanced Korean Language
- Advanced Latin
- Advanced Sanskrit Language
- Advanced Spanish Studies
- Ancient Greek
- Arabic
- Asian Art History
- Burmese Language
- French Language and Culture
- German Language and Culture
- Hindi Language
- Indonesian Language
- Italian Language and Culture
- Japanese Language
- Japanese Linguistics
- Korean Language
- Latin
- Mongolian Language
- Persian
- Russian
- Sanskrit Language
- Screen Studies
- Spanish
- Tetum Language
- Thai Language
- Vietnamese Language
- Visual Arts Practice
Elective Study
48 units from completion of elective courses offered by ANU
Once you have met the program requirements of your degree, you may have enough electives to complete an additional elective major, minor or specialisation.