History of Art

About this course

History of art at SOAS has a character that is genuinely unlike the discipline as it is typically taught elsewhere in the UK. Most history of art programmes focus predominantly on the Western European canon, from ancient Greece through the Renaissance to modernism. SOAS turns its attention to the art and visual cultures of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, bringing the same scholarly rigour to the artistic traditions of China, Japan, India, the Islamic world, and sub-Saharan Africa that other institutions devote to Leonardo or Picasso. This is not simply a matter of widening the syllabus: it involves genuinely different art historical methods, different relationships between art and religion, politics, and patronage, and different ways of understanding what art is and what it does. This three-year programme at SOAS includes a foundation year, which provides a grounding in the study of

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 55% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 62 / 100Secretarial and related occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 25% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 15% of graduatescards →
• 45 / 100Media Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Sales occupations · 5% of graduatescards →

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