History of Art

Advantages: Brilliant 3rd and 4th year and world class tutors
Disadvantages: 1st and 2nd year is a bit frustratingly general

...Well I'm in my last few weeks of teaching at the University of Edinburgh, on a History (hons) MA course, and so the last thing I should really be doing is writing ABOUT it instead of writing FOR it, but hey never mind! The last four years have been fabulous fun, and work has hardly got in the way of that at all. That said, my parents tell me its what I'm actually here for! So how does History here work? Well, like most Arts degrees at Edinburgh, when you arrive, you are actually more part of the Arts faculty than the History department, although that is where you are based, and where they track you down. For the first two years, you do very general courses, designed to introduce you to the topics, rather than to actually really further your knowledge. Of your three courses, two must be in history itself (1st year this means... Read review

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...When you hark back to your school days and recall your History lessons, you probably remember an ageing, eccentric, bespectacled, frizzy haired and shabbily clothed old bat who would be better suited playing Mrs Overall on Acorn Antiques than teaching a bunch of children the intricacies of history. You probably only ever learnt about how bad Hitler was or how Britain rose from nothing to create the Industrial Revolution. This probably put you off studying history. If it didn’t, and you persevered to A Level standard, you would have realised that studying History is both interesting, useful and utterly enjoyable. Now this isn’t an opinion on studying History at Nottingham University; unfortunately on Ciao they lump individual subjects into a particular University and do not stand alone. Instead I want to break down... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent faculty, facilities, hoppin' city
Disadvantages: price- (no others)

...As an artist, having gone through various art 'programs', I found The School of the Art Institute of Chicago amongst the best of the best. Upon high school graduation, I went off to the Maryland Institute, College of Art, in Baltimore, MD/ USA. That was an intense program, a very solid foundation, (I was there for 2 yrs.) for drawing and painting, along with sculpture and literature too. However, I was never one to believe that art schools don't need to cater to young artists that may have a more acedemic inclination as well. With that in mind, I was in search of a school with an academic program that was a bit more challenging. I went to a University for a brief stint, but, that was not a good thing because all of a sudden I was going from, small, private art school where I was a painting major, to a HUGE university with an art bldg... Read review

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