University of Groningen
MA Art History
Groningen, Netherlands
DURATION
12 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
15 Aug 2024
EARLIEST START DATE
01 Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
EUR 2,530 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* € 2530 (EU/EEA students) | € 18700 (non-EU/EEA students)
Introduction
The MA Art History & Curatorial Studies is a vibrant master Program that attracts students from all over the globe. It teaches students to become intellectually thorough, socially engaged, and professionally successful art historians.
The Program combines a rigorous, research driven curriculum with hands-on experience in curatorial practice, working closely together with stakeholders in museums, galleries, alternative art spaces, and heritage institutions. It offers courses on early modern , modern and contemporary art, while also highlighting transhistorical and transcultural means. The program includes courses on artistic research in collaboration with the art academy, and explores contemporary conservation issues with a view to eco-critical approaches in art history. All students will go on an excursion to a major European city (Berlin, Paris, Rome or Venice). Next to the MA thesis, small scale research tutorials allow students to work with individual professors, developing and strengthening their professional profile. On top of the Program, students can participate in summer schools, Erasmus exchange modules, and research activities, such as workshops and conferences offered by the faculty’s research institutes.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please visit the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Year 1
- Art History Now: Theory, Method, Historiography
- Collections & Artefacts
- Media, Materials, Makers: Arts and/as Research
- Museums: The Making-Of
- Excursion
- Master Thesis: Curatorial & Museum studies (20 EC, facultatief)
- Master Thesis: Early Modern European Art / Modern & Contemporary Art (15 EC, facultatief)
- Research Internship
- Tutorial: Research expertise
- Museum Internship: Curatorial & Museum studies
Program Outcome
Credits: 60 ECTS
MA in Arts & Culture
After you have graduated the MA track Art History, you can officially call yourself an art historian. Your title shows you have completed a versatile degree program, where you have acquired a lot of knowledge of works of art, artists, their clients, the professional field, practice, and the public. Your job opportunities after completing this degree are very diverse. Traditionally, our graduates work in museums, where they look after the collections, curate exhibitions, and put together educational material. On the other hand, they often work in the media, for art-oriented shows, write art critiques or work for a publishing house. Art historians are also active in municipal, provincial or government departments, in policy or executive positions, for example in heritage management. Particularly in the last couple of years, there has been an increased interest in cultural-historical heritage and its social significance (cultural tourism).
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Art is in general of great importance to our contemporary society, as museums are taken by storm on a daily basis. Depending on your own interests and specialization, your job prospects are varied, therefore it is only natural that graduates in the field of Ancient, Modern and Contemporary art end up in varying professions.
Job examples
- Gallery owner
- Art Consultant
- Policy officer Culture at (local) government
- Curator
- Museum Educator
- Public Relations Officer
- Exhibition maker
- Employee auction house
- Journalist
- Purchaser company collections
- Editor
- Lecturer
- Cultural-historical tourism
- Conservator-Restorer
- Monument care
- Scientific Employee