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Minor in Art History
The Minor in Art History offers a basic introduction to methodologies of art history to students across NTU. Through a study of artworks and monuments from diverse cultural and historical spheres, students acquire a foundational knowledge of artistic cultures and an understanding of their distinctiveness. Students also develop a preliminary facility for looking at artworks and interpreting them in ways that are methodical, purposeful and informed.
Attention is paid to relationships between language and visuality by employing interpretive strategies such as: the consideration of material and form, the role of description and analysis in interpretation, familiarity with precedents and models for interpretation alongside the practice of writing. Seeing, reading and writing are the formative processes in this programme.
This Minor is a complement to SoH degrees and to degree programmes such as Chinese Studies, English, Sociology, Communications, Psychology and History. The Minor offers new stimulating perspectives on the world for Natural Science, Engineering and Business students.
Minor in Art History Curriculum (AY2021 Intake and Before)
Current Curriculum
Compulsory Cores (6 AUs)
ADM students who wish to do a Minor in Art History will take HR1001 and HR2001 in replacement of DD1003 and DD1004 (Already taken as Core for ADM students). |
Any 3 electives from any category including inter-major prescribed electives (9 AUs)
| HR1001 | Ways of Seeing: Exploring Visual Culture |
| HR2001 | Introduction to the Histories of Southeast Asian Arts |
| Category A: Global Art Histories | |
| HR2003 | The Art and Architecture of the “Long Century” 1789-1914 |
| HR2004 | Survey of Modern Art 1900-1945 |
| HR2008 | Faith and Art |
| HR2011 | Global Modernisms: 1850-1950 |
| HR3003 | From Modern to Post-Modern Art 1945 – 1985 |
| HR3004 | Art in the Age of Colonialism |
| HR3008 | Aesthetic Manifestations of Buddhist Devotion & Practice |
| DD3016 | History of Design |
| DF2009 | History of World Cinema |
| DP2002 | History of Photography |
| DT2007 | History of Animation |
| HH1025 | World Archaeology |
| HH2125 | The World in 12 Objects |
| HH4003 | The Silk Road: Old and New |
| HH4125 | Colonial Archaeology of Southeast Asia |
| Category B: Contemporary Art & Theory | |
| HR2002 | Issues in Art History and Theory |
| HR2005 | Survey of New Media |
| HR3001 | Cities, Bodies, Memories, Art & Everyday Life in Contemporary Singapore |
| HR3002 | Issues in Global Contemporary Art |
| DD3012 | Methods in Art & Design |
| DF2002 | Survey of Experimental Filmmaking |
| DF2006 | Ethnographic Film |
| HH3001 | Historiography: Theory and Methods |
| HH4021 | Public and Applied History |
| Category C: Archaeology, Curatorial, Heritage, and Museum Studies | |
| HR2009 | Contemporary Curating |
| HR2010 | Introduction to Museum Studies |
| HR4001 | Exhibition Histories: Museums to Biennales |
| DA2004 | Exhibition Design |
| DD2013 | Visualization of Cultural Heritage |
| DD3027 | Maritime Silk Roads: Heritage & Media |
| HH1125 | History and Archaeology: An Introduction |
| HH4005 | Culture and Heritage: Perspectives from History |
| Category D: Asian Art Histories | |
| HR2006 | Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art |
| HR2007 | Contemporary Southeast Asian Art |
| HR3006 | The Modern and Modernism in Southeast Asian Art |
| HR3007 | Japanese Art: Edo to Contemporary |
| HR3009 | 19th Century Southeast Asian Art: Interactions and Refractions |
| HR4003 | From Colonialism to Tourism: Early Photography in Asia |
| HH2025 | The World of Southeast Asia to 1600 |
| HH2030 | Ascetics and Aesthetics of Medieval Japan |
| HH3023 | Burma/Myanmar: A History |
| Inter-Major Prescribed Electives | |
| HR3005 | The Fantastic in Western Visual Arts |
| HR4002 | British Art: 1815 – 1929 |
| DF2005 | Writing for Film |
| HL2007 | Contemporary Literature and Culture |
| HR2009 | Southeast Asian Literature and Culture |
| HL2015 | War in Literature and Film |
| HL2043 | Fantasy Literature |
| HL2044 | Introduction to Publishing |
| HL2045 | Workshop in Theatre Practice |
| HL3001 | Film Theory |
| HL3003 | Film and Literature |
| HL3036 | The History of the Book |
| HL3038 | Theatre of the Absurd |
| HL3042 | Gothic Literature |
| HL3043 | Modernist Soundscapes |
| HL3044 | The Legends of King Arthur |
| HL4009 | Popular Literature and Culture |
| HL4014 | Advanced Studies in Film |
| HL4024 | Advanced Studies in Contemporary Literature |
| HL4040 | Literature and Art |
| HL4041 | Studies in Art Criticism and Culture |
| HL4042 | Being Human in Film and Literature |
| HH3003 | Migration and Diaspora: Chinese Experiences in Comparative Perspective |
| HH4015 | Film: A Global History |
| HY4007 | Aesthetics |