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Supplementary subject Art History
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Art history - it may sound old-fashioned, but it's not. After all, the subject has long since moved beyond the "Old Masters".

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Art history may sound old-fashioned, but it's not. After all, the subject has long since ceased to deal solely with the "Old Masters". Today, art history sees itself as part of an interdisciplinary visual science that takes into account the importance of the visual in our world. The visual world of the media is therefore now just as much a part of the subject area as popular culture and the varieties of international contemporary art.

The supplementary subject aims to profitably combine the traditional content of the subject with contemporary perspectives. On the one hand, it aims to impart knowledge of the epochs, genres and styles of Western art in all their breadth and to encourage students to independently analyze aesthetic phenomena. Basic skills in the field of visuality and visual history are taught in order to be able to take a critical and argumentative stance on general visual and visual-artistic issues in the present and in history. The basic training in art history covers the period from antiquity through the Middle Ages and modern times to modernity and the present.

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    Start of studies
    Winter semester

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    Standard period of study
    6 semesters (full-time)
    12 semesters (part-time)

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    Admission restricted
    No

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    Language of instruction
    German

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The supplementary subject can only be chosen in conjunction with a core subject in the study model B and D of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities!

If you do not have a high school diploma, but have the entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences, or are already in the middle of your professional life, please find out more here.

In the Bachelor's degree program at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, you can combine different subjects in a variety of ways. The B.A. in History can be studied as an extended core subject, core subject and supplementary subject.

Fakultät I: BA Modell B - Erweitertes Kernfach und Ergänzungsfach
Fakultät I: BA Modell D - Kernfach und 2 Ergänzungsfächer

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