Graduate Centre in the School of Humanities
Department of Art History
MA in Art History
Student Handbook 2007-08
Contents
Page SECTION 1 The Department of Art History Welcome to Art History at the University of Sussex Who we are Keeping in Contact Art History Email groups Sussex Direct SECTION 2 The Art History MA 1-6 1 2-3 4-5 5 6 7-13
Programme Specifications Programme Learning Outcomes Course Materials How the MA is taught and examined Your Dissertation Supervisor Art History MA course descriptions Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term Study Skills SECTION 3 Art History Resources and Events The Art History Slide Library The Barlow Collection The University Library Gallery Visits The Sussex Centre for Research in Art History More about studying at MA level Support for students More information?
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Section 1 The Department of Art History Welcome to Art History at the University of Sussex
On behalf of all the members of the Art History Department, a warm welcome to our incoming MA students and welcome back to our continuing students. This handbook refers to the MA programme in Art History offered by the Art History Department in the School of Humanities at the University of Sussex. It is a very, very useful document to have and to hold on to. In addition to this handbook you should also consult: the Graduate Centre in the Humanities Postgraduate Handbook. This gives advice and guidance to MA students across the School of Humanities; the Assessment Handbook for Postgraduate Candidates for Specified PGT Programmes, published by the University. This gives official information on the assessment of MA and PG Diploma programmes across the University.
We look forward to getting to know our new students throughout their period of study with us and hope that your studies prove to be stimulating and enjoyable.
Dr Geoff Quilley Postgraduate Convenor, Department of Art History School of Humanities
Disclaimer: the information in this Handbook was correct at the time of going to press. Any subsequent changes to degree programmes, curriculum, etc., are outside of the control of the handbook’s compiler. The University of Sussex reserves the right to change information. Further information and any updates to information will be advised during the academic year.
Who we are The Department of Art History is part of the School of Humanities (HUMS) and is based mainly in Arts B. Members of the Department are:
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Head of Department: Professor Liz James Room: Arts B250 (87)3611 e.james@sussex.ac.uk Professor James teaches Classical and Byzantine art and culture.
Teaching & Research Faculty, Fellows and Associates: Dr Bente Bjornholt Associate Tutor Dr Bjornholt can be contacted via the Art History Departmental Co-ordinator. B.K.Bjornholt@sussex.ac.uk Dr Bjornholt specialises in Byzantine art and culture. Dr Meaghan Clarke (on leave for 2007-8) Room: Arts B321 (87)3113 M.E.Clarke@sussex.ac.uk Dr Clarke specialises in 19th- and early 20th-century art in Britain as well as France and North America. Dr Flora Dennis (on leave for 2007-8) c/o (87)3525 f.dennis@vam.ac.uk Dr Dennis's research focuses on music, sound and domestic space, and the visual and material culture of 15th and 16th century Italy. Professor Maurice Howard Room: Arts B 263 606755 x 2218 m.howard@sussex.ac.uk Professor Howard teaches and researches into 15th-and 16th-century art and architecture in Northern Europe. Gregory Irvine (Victoria and Albert Museum Exchange Fellow) Gregory Irvine is Senior Curator in the Asian Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Dr Leila McKellar Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow Room: Arts B 229 (87)7126 l.h.mckellar@hotmail.com Dr McKellar specialises in Contemporary art, especially the work of Helen Chadwick; critical theory; art and the senses. Professor David Alan Mellor Room: Arts B323 (67)8635 d.a.mellor@sussex.ac.uk Professor Mellor is a 20th-century specialist, with particular interests in photography and the culture of the ‘60s. Dr Michelle O’Malley Director of Research (HUMS) Room: Arts A 179 (87)7242 m.o-malley@sussex.ac.uk Dr O’Malley specialises in the Italian Renaissance. Dr Geoff Quilley Postgraduate Convenor Room: Arts B 262 (87)6627 Dr Quilley is interested in 18th-century British art and the growth of empire.
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Dr Christian Weikop Room: Arts B 229 (87)7126 c.weikop@sussex.ac.uk Dr Weikop’s interests are in 20th-century art, especially the print culture of Germany. Dr Stephen Wharton Associate Tutor Dr Wharton can be contacted via the MA Programme Convenor or the Art History Departmental Co-ordinator. His email is s.j.wharton@sussex.ac.uk Dr Wharton’s interests are in ceramics, objects and technology of the Renaissance, in particular those of Italy.
Emeritus: Professor Partha Mitter Professor Mitter is based in Oxford. To contact him, please liaise with the Departmental Co-ordinator via (87)3525, or via hoa@sussex.ac.uk. Partha Mitter is Emeritus Professor at Sussex and member of Wolfson College, Oxford. He completed his book, The Triumph of Indian Modernism 1922-1947, which is now in press, at the Centre for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington, DC last academic year. Professor Mitter is currently working on a long essay entitled Decentring Modernism, critiquing the western avant-garde discourse.
Honorary Fellow: Dr Vibhuti Sachdev Dr Sachdev is based in India. To contact Dr Sachdev, please liaise with the Departmental Co-ordinator on (87)3525 or email vs20@sussex.ac.uk Dr Sachdev’s interests include Indian classical theory of architecture, and its continuing uses within current mainstream practice and also Jaipur, an eighteenth-century walled city in India, and its current growth and development.
Support & Administrative Staff: Katherine Scott MA Programme Co-ordinator Room: Arts A182, 01273 678468 The Co-ordinator is your main point-of-contact in regard to post-graduate issues. Sarah Maddox Art History Departmental Co-ordinator Room: Arts B 261 (87)3525 s.maddox@sussex.ac.uk Sarah mainly deals with Art History undergraduate students. However, she can also be a valuable source of information. Simon Lane Art History Slide Librarian Room: EDB-303 606755 x 2128 s.lane@sussex.ac.uk The Slide Library is located in the Educational Development Building, rooms 300-303. Term time opening hours: 9.00 am to 5.00 pm, Mondays to
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Fridays. For opening times during vacation periods, please check with Simon or the Departmental Co-ordinator.
Keeping in Contact How we contact you YOUR EMAIL. You should check your email REGULARLY, at a minimum twice per week. The Art History Department has special email groups: see pages 5-6 THE NOTICE BOARDS in the HUMS Graduate Centre, in Arts A. THE ART HISTORY GENERAL NOTICE BOARD, on the wall by Professor Maurice Howard’s office (B263). Notifications of lectures, events, exhibitions and other information are posted here THE ART HISTORY SLIDE LIBRARY NOTICEBOARDS IN EDB-300 to 302
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THE BYZANTINE NOTICE BOARD, next to Arts B 250 (Professor Liz James’s office) the door of your Course Tutor or Supervisor THE POSTGRADUATE STUDENT PIGEON HOLES located in the HUMS Graduate Centre. You should check your pigeonhole on a regular basis. THE HUMANITIES (HUMS) SCHOOL OFFICE, located in Arts A 7, on the lower ground floor of the Arts A complex. THE ART HISTORY WEBPAGE. Information on events, courses, reading lists and teaching aids will often be available via www.sussex.ac.uk/arthistory THE GRADUATE CENTRE IN HUMANITIES SCHOOL WEBSITE. Generic information on curriculum, programmes, events, etc., within the School of Humanities will be available via www.sussex.ac.uk/gchums
How you contact us In term time, each course tutor has a weekly Office Hour. The day and time are posted on their office doors and on the notice boards by the Departmental Co-ordinator’s office, B261. During this hour, they will be available to anyone who has questions, concerns, issues, or worries. Your course tutor, dissertation supervisor, the Head of Department, whichever member of the department you wish to see, will be available to you in this way. Office hours are also appropriate times to receive individual help and advice on essays, presentations and exam preparation. If you cannot make the office hour, then either email the tutor, leave a message on his or her door or contact the Departmental Co-ordinator. Check your email or pigeonhole for a reply. Art History Email Groups Art History has a number of special email groups which the department coordinator maintains. Please refer any queries to her via s.maddox@sussex.ac.uk or (01273) 873525. ahfac@sussex.ac.uk Reaches all members of permanent Art History teaching staff ahdept@sussex.ac.uk Reaches all Art History teaching and admin staff ahfirst@sussex.ac.uk Reaches all first year students plus the first year convenor, Prof Maurice Howard ahsecond@sussex.ac.uk Reaches all second year students
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ahfinal@sussex.ac.uk
Reaches all final year students
ahma@sussex.ac.uk
Reaches all MA year students
ahdphil@sussex.ac.uk
Reaches all DPhil year students
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Sussex Direct Sussex Direct is the University of Sussex’s online database. It is one of the most important resources for you to use and consult, as it will provide you with the most up-to-the-minute information on your progress during your time at Sussex. You will be provided with a login and password to access the database, and it is essential that you check it on a regular basis, otherwise you may miss out on very important information. For more information on Sussex Direct, please refer to your Graduate Centre in the Humanities Postgraduate Handbook or check via the Sussex website: www.sussex.ac.ukSection 2
The Art History MA
Programme Specifications Programme specifications give you the outline of how the Art History MA degree programme is run. The best place to look for Art History-owned programmes is via our website: www.sussex.ac.uk/arthistory/programmes You should be aware that the courses offered by the Art History Department vary from year to year. For the full range of Art History MA courses that can be offered, please refer to the Art History website under ‘Teaching’. The courses that are being run in 2007-08 are listed on pages 10-13 in this Handbook. Full or part-time? You may choose to undertake the system of courses over one or two years. Keep in mind that if you choose to do the MA part-time you will be taking the Core Course in the Autumn Term of your 1st year and that, while you have no formal teaching in the Summer Term of the 1st year, you will be expected to begin work on selecting your dissertation topic for your Final Year.
Programme Learning Outcomes By the end of the full- or part-time versions of the MA programme you should: Be familiar with many recent and longer-standing debates in the history of art and have adopted an independent critical position regarding the theory and practice of the discipline; Have gained both generic knowledge across a range of historical periods and specialised knowledge relating to particular periods or subject areas; Have found ways of contributing effectively and appropriately to class discussions at graduate level;
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Be able to make both written and oral presentations of your work to a high scholarly standard and with precision, clarity and competence in the use of relevant technical terminology; Have developed high level research skills including the identification and processing of both primary and secondary sources and with respect to the study of art objects across a range of media and in a variety of circumstances; Have gained significant insights into the professional practice and contexts of the discipline of art history.
Course Materials For each Art History course, you will be provided with a course document that explains the aims and objectives of the course and how teaching and learning is organised. Course documents will provide you with the following information: the name of the course tutor and/or convenor; the date, time and location of your seminar group or lecture; description of the course; how the course is taught; how the course is assessed; what you should expect to learn from the teaching; aims, objectives and learning outcomes of the course.
Your course document will also list topics, plus essential and recommended reading. You get your course documents from the Art History Departmental Co-ordinator, at the start of each term. It is essential for the success of classes and your own learning that you read each week for every topic. At MA level, you should be reading extensively outside of the set texts.
How the MA is taught and examined For full-time students the programme comprises four taught 9-10 week courses, two in the Autumn and two in the Spring, followed by the preparation and writing of a dissertation under supervision. Courses are normally taught by weekly seminar. Each course attracts 30 credits and the Dissertation 60 credits: the total number of credits constituting the programme is 180. Details regarding term papers and dissertations are given in the general Postgraduate Handbook and information sessions are also arranged by the Graduate Centre Directors. Each course is examined by a 5,000-word term paper, to be submitted at the beginning of the term following that in which the course is taught. The dissertation length is 20,000 words and it is submitted at the start of September. You are also expected to attend the Art History Research Skills and Methods course, which is run over the three terms of the academic year. This is an unaccredited course and it is aimed at preparing you for researching and writing
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your term papers and dissertation. It may also encourage you to go on to further study at DPhil Level. For part-time students, the same requirements are spread over two years, with one course taken in each of the successive Autumn and Spring terms, and with the preparation and writing of the dissertation extended over two summer periods. You will be expected to attend the Research Skills and Methods course in the second year of your MA programme. The chart below gives the teaching syllabus of 2007-08, together with course codes and the number of credits allocated to each course.
Term Syllabus Rule Course Title Art History Research Seminar Art History Research Skills and Methods Visual and Material Cultures Code 847V4 846V4 845V4A Level Credits M M M 0 0 30
Aut/Spr/Sum Core course Core course Autumn 1 of these options
Creating the Court Core course Spring 2 of these option Objects and Methods Photography and 20th Century Visual Culture Power of Images in Byzantium Art and Its Objects Summer Core course Dissertation
831V4A
M
30
828V4 8410VB
M M
30 30
833V4B 845V4B 811V4
M M M
30 30 60
Your Dissertation Supervisor For full-time students, as the Summer Term begins, you will need to begin work on your Dissertation. You should then make contact and consult with a member of faculty whose area of expertise looks to be a good match with your proposed dissertation topic. Once you have established their consent to be your Dissertation supervisor you have an entitlement of a total of up to two hours tutorial supervision. By arrangement this might take the form, say, of four half hour sessions. Supervision will cease at the end of the Summer Term. Part-time students begin work on their dissertation from the Summer term of their second year. You should, however, start thinking about a dissertation topic and a suitable supervisor over the Summer Term and holiday of your first year. Art History MA course descriptions The following is for guidance ONLY. Fuller descriptions of the courses are included in your course documents. Autumn Term 2007
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846V4: Research Skills and Methods Research Skills and Methods is run throughout the academic year. It is designed to help you to get a grounding in acquiring the kinds of skills you can anticipate using in art history at an advanced level. This course aims to complement the Core Course by concentrating on aspects of primary and secondary research as functioning tools. We shall examine how to do extended research for Term Papers and Dissertations through a number of methods, such as accessing on-line databases and using institutional indexes.
828V4: Core Course - Objects and Methods (compulsory) This course is designed for all students on the M.A. The course will explore a variety of art historical objects in conjunction with approaches to the discipline. It covers some of the central topics and methods of current art historical practice as applied to a wide range of specific geographic and historical contexts. It allows students coming from a first degree in arts-related and other disciplines to engage with some of the broad lines of art history's historiographical and methodological approaches, whilst allowing those who have already studied art history to broaden their understanding of recent and important questions of method. The aim is to develop in students the ability to interpret, critique and apply a range of methodological positions.
845V4A: Visual and Material Cultures (option) This course will study the historical relationships between art and travel, primarily (though not necessarily exclusively) with regard to British art from c.1600 to 1900. It will consider the various roles and identities of artists as travellers, and travellers as artists, and will address fundamentally the question of how important has travel been to the formation, development and character of British (and European) art. Of necessity, such inquiry must be interdisciplinary, understanding travel - and art - not as isolated practices and discourses, but as inextricably implicated in the history of empire, colonial and postcolonial discourse, the discourse of the exotic and the other, including issues of transculturation and hybridization, as well as the phenomenology of travel. It will address a potentially enormous range of probably unfamiliar, though extremely interesting, visual material: the material considered will be to a large extent determined by students’ own interests and input. Creating the Court 831V4A (option)
Spring Term 2008 846V4: Research Skills and Methods Continued from the Autumn Term.
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845V4B: Art and Its Objects: Civilisation and enlightenment - Japanese art and culture revisited, 1868-1912 (option) The period 1868-1912 is known as the Meiji period (after the Emperor Meiji) and the name itself means ‘Enlightened rule’. This was a period when Japan threw off its feudal past and with a policy of modernisation began to introduce western civilisation into the country. Within a very short period Japan rapidly outgrew its samurai legacy and became a leading world power. The course will draw on the superb collections and archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum together with contemporary travellers’ tales of the period.
833VB: Power of Images in Byzantium (option) The course will examine a subject - the power of images - for which both primary sources and recent art historical debate are concerned with. Problems concerning the use of language in discussing the visual arts, problems of interpretation and methodology, and the whole issue of propaganda, will form the central concerns of the course, which takes Byzantium as its case-study. The Byzantine Empire is the only world power to have thrown itself into chaos over a dispute about the place and role of images in society. As an empire dominated by visual images as symbols of power and propaganda, it offers a site for exploring the power of images in the medieval world, and for analysing the intimate links between art and society. The course focuses on the early centuries of the empire from the victory of Constantine in 313 to the beginning of Iconoclasm in 842. Themes will include: patronage; icons and saints; death; imperial art; depicting women in the medieval world. Photography and Twentieth Century Visual Culture This course will critically and analytically examine the contexts, theories and productions of individual artists and photographers working during the period from the middle of the 19th century until about 1930. Our studies will concentrate on encountering a range of methodological frameworks for the analysis of specific visual works and consider historiographies of both photography and art history.
Summer 2007 846V4: Research Skills and Methods The Summer Term Research Skills and Methods seminars will help you prepare for your 20,000-word MA dissertation. This dissertation is an opportunity for you to write at length, both critically and analytically, on a topic that you will negotiate with your Supervisor.
Study Skills As an MA student, you will fully appreciate that academic work entails producing work that conforms to academic standards. You must provide full bibliographies; you must acknowledge your sources to avoid plagiarism; and the style of your writing has to reflect the higher level at which you are now studying. Study Skills at
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postgraduate level, therefore, are crucial tools that you will need to consolidate and put into practice throughout your time with us at the University of Sussex. Because the correct study skills are so important to your success at university, the Art History Department has produced its own study skills guidance document, which is included in your Departmental Welcome Pack. It is called the Art History Essay Style and Referencing Guide. It is ESSENTIAL that you read this guide thoroughly and refer to it on a regular basis. The information within will help you ensure that the work you produce throughout your time with us conforms to the standards required by the University of Sussex. The Art History Essay Style and Referencing Guide is also available on the Art History Department’s website, via: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/arthistory/1-3.html. Click on the link on the right-hand side of the page and you will access the guide.
Section 3 Art History Resources and Events
The Art History Slide Library The Art History Slide Library is situated on the top floor of the Educational Development Building (EDB-300 to 303). It houses the following collections of slides, photographs and periodicals. The slides form the basis of the Department's teaching: Slides Western art and architecture from pre-history to the present day, Byzantine Art, Chinese and South East Asian, Indian and Islamic art and architecture.
Photographs Bridson Collection - Western art from medieval era to 20th century Wegg Collection - Flemish painting Courtauld Illustrated Archives - European architecture and sculpture, medieval to 19th century Women in the Visual Arts - Work by women artists in Britain 1914-45. Periodicals & Art Monthly – February 1996 - Present Catalogues Art Newspaper – October 1990 - Present Museums Journal – April 1989 - Present Sotheby’s Auction Catalogues – 1963 – 1989 Over 300 Collection, Exhibition and Gallery Catalogues and Guides The Slide Library also holds a collection of books, videos and CD Roms for student use. It is equiped with a number of computers loaded with software appropriate for Art Historians with CD-Rewriters and scanners, together with light boxes, slide carousels, etc. The Slide Library is used as a base for articles and books not available in the Main Library which tutors place there for use in specific courses. There are also a number of boxes in which course tutors place photocopies of articles, images, etc, throughout the year. You will be given further details when the time comes.
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The Slide Librarian, Simon Lane, will run introductory sessions during the first term. These are organised via the Slide Library notice board. Please ask for any help that you may need in using the collection and consult Simon about the correct procedure for borrowing slides. Normal opening hours: 9.00 am to 5.00 pm, Monday to Friday, during term time. Hours will vary during the vacation periods. Art History Slide Librarian: Simon Lane, EDB-303 Ext: 2128 s.lane@sussex.ac.uk The Barlow Collection The Barlow Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades is situated in the Library Building, to the right of the Main Entrance. It is an important teaching resource of the Art History Department, as it gives you the chance to engage with the particular problems posed of handling 3-D objects. The Barlow Collection is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11.30 am to 2.30 pm, and at other times as needed for teaching. It contains a collection of books on Chinese art not catalogued in the Main Library computer. The Assistant Curator is Aiden Leeves, telephone (87)3506, email: a.leeves@sussex.ac.uk. The Annual Barlow Lecture Many distinguished speakers have been invited to give the Annual Barlow Lecture since its inception in 1974. This open lecture traditionally takes place in the Spring Term and you are encouraged to attend. Watch the departmental notice boards and your emails for details. Further information is obtainable from the University of Sussex Library.
The University Library The University Library is the basic teaching resource for Art History. The specialist Art History books and periodicals are housed on the top floor and have classmarks prefixed by the letter "N". There are also holdings of Art History books in the Short Loan and Reserve Collections on the Ground Floor. On the first floor you will find current periodicals, many of which are useful to Art History students. Here too, are essential reference materials such as the periodical Art Index, which reviews and indexes a vast number of periodical publications.
Gallery Visits Your course may involve visits to galleries and/or sites of interest, mainly in London or the local area to Brighton. You may also need to travel for research purposes in relation to your dissertation. The Graduate School will attempt to help you with some of the cost incurred in travelling to galleries for visits related to your studies. For more details, please speak with the MA Programme Coordinator.
Research in Art History
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Each term, the Department of Art History holds a series of research seminars that provide a forum for the discussion of issues central to the field. Public lectures, symposia, workshops and conferences are also organised to address topics of current debate. These events are open to the public and are usually free of charge. The research seminars are, in any case, free to Sussex students, and you are encouraged to attend. The events are overseen by Professor David Mellor, who is based in Arts B323. The termly seminars are held on Wednesday afternoons and are always advertised on the Art History General Notice Board, next to B261. Also watch for emails, leaflets, posters and the Bulletin (the University’s staff and students’ fortnightly publication), for details about other forthcoming events. We strongly recommend that all our MA students try to make as many of these lectures as possible.
More about studying at MA level Depending on where you were an undergraduate, you may find that you have either fewer or more teaching hours as an MA student than you did when you were studying for your BA. Full-time students will normally be doing two or three courses at any one time: each of these will involve a weekly seminar of just about two hours. You are also strongly encouraged to attend the Wednesday Research lectures in A103, plus any other relevant open seminars that are brought to your attention. In addition, you should spend at least 15 hours a week in individual study. The University and the School of Humanities provide certain facilities and resources, most notably the Library, the use of computers, and a space where learning is constantly pursued. Your tutors will direct your study with reading lists and all kinds of informal advice. Your ideas and conclusions will be put to the test in seminars, where you will be expected to have reached some views of your own and to be able to argue for them. Your written work will be formally assessed to determine your degree result, and you will receive feedback on your term papers as you go along. We will help you as much as we can, but what you get out of your study will depend on how much you put into it: your mastery of the subject is primarily something for you to achieve. Though the structures we put in place will assist you in this endeavour, they cannot do the work for you.
Individual Study The largest, and in many ways the most important, part of your working time will be spent on your own, or discussing problems with your fellow-students. It is important to organise your time effectively, and to plan your use of the library, especially if you have to do paid work as well as your academic work. A word of advice: always set yourself specific and realistic targets when you work, and take regular breaks. Set yourself to read a particular article or chapter of a book, or to work for a predetermined length of time (say one and a half hours) and then pause when you have completed this task. A few periods of intense concentration, separated by short breaks, will serve you far better than any amount of time spent sitting at a desk but not really concentrating.
Course seminars
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The focus of your work for each course will be a weekly seminar. You should be in command of the set reading and be prepared to try out your own ideas and to defend them in discussion. Course seminars are compulsory. In many seminars, some form of presentation will also be required: your tutor will give you guidance on the form which presentations are expected to take and how to prepare them.
Training sessions The Art History Department’s Research Skills and Methods course is run throughout the academic year, on Wednesdays at 2.15 pm in D730. It is very important that you try to attend all of these sessions, as you will be given invaluable information on term-paper writing, on how to research and write the 20,000-word dissertation. The Graduate Centre in Humanities also organises training sessions for all MA and PG Dip students in the Humanities in the course of the year. These sessions will be advertised to you in advance. Fuller details are given in the Graduate Centre in the Humanities Postgraduate Handbook.
Essays We require that your essays be professionally presented: typed or word-processed, with full scholarly references and a bibliography. Pay particular attention to matters of spelling, style and punctuation. Poor punctuation is one of the commonest failings in student essays, even at graduate level. If you are unsure about correct punctuation, get hold of a guide: there are several cheap and readable such guides on the market. Refer to your Art History Essay Style and Referencing Guide.
Course Evaluation Student evaluation forms are issued at the end of each course and are scrutinised by the tutors associated with the course before it is taught again. These forms are anonymous, and are an opportunity for you to tell us what you felt about all aspects of the course, including the material covered, teaching methods, and the adequacy of library and web resources. We take your comments and suggestions for improvement very seriously. We do not, of course, guarantee to be able to meet all student requests, first because we have to operate within tight financial constraints, and second because we have to exercise our own academic judgement about the desirability of any change. In addition, some key areas – notably the library – are beyond the immediate control of the Graduate Centre. But we do guarantee to give active consideration to all serious suggestions for change and improvement.
Support for students The University provides many kinds of help and support for students, including mentoring schemes and pastoral care. For more information, please consult your Graduate Centre in the Humanities Postgraduate Handbook.
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More information? Information that has not been included in this handbook will be in your Graduate Centre in the Humanities Postgraduate Handbook or the Assessment Handbook for Postgraduate Candidates for Specified PGT Programmes. Alternatively, you can access the University’s webpages, in particular: www.sussex.ac.uk/gchums, or www.sussex.ac.uk/arthistory.
We wish you a stimulating, challenging and ultimately successful time studying for your MA in Art History at Sussex.
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