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Stellenbosch University

Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Visual Studies

The Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Visual Studies in Arts is offered by Stellenbosch University.

Program Length: 1 YEAR.

Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Visual Studies offered by the Stellenbosch University at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Visual Studies offers a comprehensive postgraduate offering all the way through to doctoral level.
This intensive year-long Honours programme is recognised as one of the best in the country. It brings together experts on art journalism, media theorists, theorists of Visual Culture Studies and curators. We attract students who are interested in pursuing careers in the arts sector as publishers, curators, art critics, journalists and media specialists.

CONTENT OVERVIEW

As part of the yearly programme, our curriculum covers the following themes:

• The philosophical consideration of photography and the gendered ethics of self-representation
• Subjectivity
• Art criticism
• Curatorship

The coursework is structured around interactive seminars and reading groups but also involves visits to galleries and practical projects designed to cultivate curatorial skills. The intention is to create a dynamic and vibrant environment for the generation of new ideas and discursive understandings. We aim to produce thinkers whose ideas are relevant to 'local' concerns, but resonate with intellectual traditions established elsewhere in the world.

Programme Structure

The programme focuses on an advanced level of contemporary theory in the field of Art History and, more broadly, the field of visual studies and the complex factors underlying both the production and consumption of 'high' and popular art forms, especially in South Africa and other African countries.

The programme is presented on a weekly basis in one lecture and two seminars.

Programme Content

Compulsory Modules

12870 : Visual Studies Theory 771(30)

12871 : Contemporary Visual Practices 771(30)

12872 : Interdisciplinary Theory 771(30)

11925 : Assignment (Visual Studies) 771(30)

 

Assessment and Examination

You present theoretical seminars in the course of the programme and assessment is done by means of assignments, examinations and a research assignment.