Art History and History

About this programme

Art History and History at Aberdeen is the perfect combination to immerse yourself in all aspects of human activity in the past, together with the study of art, architecture, and curation, covering a wide range of media and techniques and situating European art in its global connectedness and its full complexities. You will gain valuable specialist and transferable skills to open up a range of exciting career options. You will be enthused and inspired by teachers who are leaders in their fields, with expertise as diverse as medieval Scandinavia, early modern Poland and modern East Asia and enthralled by our wonderful collections of historic treasures collected by distinguished alumni over the centuries. You will complement this with research-led teaching in Art History, emphasising critical thinking and theoretical engagement and reflection, delivered by academics whose specialisms include environmental and political art, exhibition history and curation, theory and historiography, from the medieval period to the present day. Your specialist skills make you ideally placed to enter the art gallery and museum sectors, arts education, publishing and journalism, or fine art conservation. Your language skills will open international opportunities, and your transferable skills, including teamwork, time management, and highly developed enquiry, analytical and presentational skills, will appeal to employers in all fields. The University of Aberdeen is delighted to offer eligible self-funded international on-campus undergraduate students a £6,000 scholarship for every year of the