Fine Art with History of Art BA

    Fine Art with History of Art BA

    Duration3 year(s)
    Tuition Fee
    GBP 35,213 / year(s)
    Next IntakeSeptember 1, 2026

    Fine Art with History of Art BA

    About

    Course overview

    You'll explore practices and interpretations of art across an exceptionally wide array of intersecting cultures and different periods. In a world increasingly defined through images and material culture, we approach art and art history as a vital and dynamic framework for understanding both our shared histories, and some of the most pressing questions we are faced with now.

    By immersing yourself in a range of art techniques and practices, you’ll experiment with your own creativity and discover your personal style. You’ll be given a dedicated studio space to work from, allowing you lots of opportunity to embrace a multitude of materials and methods. Our course provides you with multiple opportunities to experiment across different media and undertake original research, while building broader skills in curating, event production, critical thinking, writing, researching, publishing and media content production. You’ll have opportunities to contribute to the creative community, to build networks in the city and to exhibit your work regularly.

    You’ll have opportunities to contribute to the creative community, to build networks in the city and to exhibit your work regularly. You’ll investigate the interconnections between art and the larger social dynamics that shape our culture, such as ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, being human and our relationship to nature and the environment. You’ll become equipped to act in the world as artists and creative global citizens, innovators in your respective fields of making. We’ll prepare you to be a socially conscious graduate with an array of relevant and transferrable skills. Throughout the course, we’ll support you in discovering what kind of creative practitioner and art historian you want to be.

    Requirements

    Entry Requirements

    Entry requirements

    A-level: ABB

    Other course specific tests:

    Where an applicant is undertaking an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), the School may make an alternative offer that is one A level grade below that of our standard offer – on the condition that the applicant achieves a grade A in their EPQ (e.g. ABB at A level / alternative offer BBB plus grade A in EPQ).

    NB: An EPQ is optional and not a requirement of application.

    All applicants will also be required to submit a satisfactory portfolio of work.

    International Baccalaureate

    34 points overall including 16 at Higher Level with 4 in English.

    English Program Requirements

    Career

    Career opportunities

    We have a strong commitment to enhancing student employability and embedding transferrable skills that are extendable into a range of careers. Our graduates become ambitious and pioneering artists, curators, critics, journalists and innovative initiators working across a wide range of creative fields.

    Many of our graduates combine careers as artists with work in education, museums and galleries and art therapy. They have established new cultural enterprises including The Tetley, Leeds’ contemporary art space. Others use their knowledge and skills to launch careers in fields including journalism, broadcasting, marketing, technology, business or design. Our graduates have gone on to postgraduate study including fine art, curating and museum studies, arts marketing, art and business, art and design PGCE, interactive design, gaming, animation and art and ecology. Many have completed PhDs and are teaching in higher education institutions around the world. As a School we have an engaged research community made up of MA and PhD students working across fine art practices, art history, cultural studies, gallery, museum and heritage studies.

    We are dedicated to helping you achieve your career ambitions - you'll be able to work closely with our exhibiting and research active staff in the School to source opportunities to gain experience, develop your skills and build networks. The optional Study Abroad or Year in Industry also offers opportunities to gain transferable skills, develop your experience and create strong working relationships.

    Leeds for Life is our unique approach to helping you make the most of university by supporting your academic and personal development. Find out more at the Leeds for Life website. The Careers Centre and staff in your faculty provide a range of help and advice to help you plan your career and make well-informed decisions along the way, even after you graduate. Find out more at the Careers website.

    Being able and encouraged to show work at great artist-led spaces in Leeds throughout my time at university has helped me hugely in developing an art career.

    Fee Information

    Tuition Fee
    35,213 / year(s)

    Fine Art with History of Art BA

    University of Leeds

    University of Leeds

    United Kingdom

    United Kingdom, Leeds