BIRCHAM INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Arts & Humanities

MODULE: Art History

Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 33 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.

DESCRIPTION:

From the earliest cave paintings to the experimental art of today. Art History covers the Western tradition and the cultures of the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and the Americas. The program combines knowledge and wisdom, to bring some intelligible order into the wealth of names, periods and styles which crowd the pages of most ambitious courses. By using an insight into the psychology of the visual arts, it makes us see the history of art as a continuous weaving and changing of cultures in which each work refers to the past and points to the future, a living chain that still links our own time with the Pyramid age.

Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).

Art History

Art & Religion

Academic Supervisor: Ana Isabel Navajas Jiménez

More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.

This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.

* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.

* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.

* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.

* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.

* Master's Degree (35 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.

* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.

BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.

Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

Art History

This course explores art history from the earliest cave paintings to the experimental art of today. Art History covers the Western tradition and the cultures of the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and the Americas.

Instructor: Carmen Ramirez Hurtado

Art & Religion

This course deals with the religious meaning, development, and historical significance of art. It covers the interplay of major religious movements with focus on the Western medieval period, the Islam, India, China, Japan and South East Asia. It provides an analysis of religion as a universal aspect of human culture expressed through the arts, mostly painting, sculpture and architecture.

Instructor: Patricia Aja Sánchez

Classic Art & Architecture

This course covers the developing styles in sculpture, vase painting, architecture, and the minor arts from the Classic Greek and Roman periods. It reviews the principal classic architectural sites and monuments, with emphasis on the innovations of the Greeks and Romans in architecture and art.

Instructor: Patricia Aja Sánchez

Medieval & Byzantine Art

This course explores Christian art and architecture of the Roman and Byzantine empires and of western Europe from the time of Charlemagne to the Renaissance.

Instructor: Patricia Aja Sánchez

Gothic Art & The Renaissance

This course provides a detailed study of Gothic architecture and its accompanying sculpture and stained glass, with special emphasis on the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Then it explores the Renaissance Art, sculpture, painting, and architecture from 1300 to 1600.

Instructor: Patricia Aja Sánchez

From Baroque to Romanticism

This course studies Baroque Art, sculpture, painting, and architecture from 1600 to 1700. It also covers Rococo to Romanticism, and the mainstream of European art and architecture from about 1710 to about 1830. Attention is also given to central and eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and the colonial Americas.

Instructor: Patricia Aja Sánchez

Realism & Impressionism

This course explores the transformation of high Romanticism through Realism and Impressionism, with emphasis on painting in France during the XIXth Century.

Instructor: Patricia Aja Sánchez

XXth Century Art

This course provides a thematic and chronological survey of the XXth century major genres of artistic expression: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism and other artistic revolutions. It also covers the multiplication of new art forms (video, performance pieces, land and installation pieces), and new contexts of fashion design, publicity, and marketing along the XXth Century.

Instructor: Patricia Aja Sánchez

Chinese & Japanese Art

This course covers the spectrum of Chinese and Japanese art from prehistory to modern times. It examines the aesthetics active in the development of Chinese and Japanese painting, architecture, sculpture, and ceramics, and the role of art in Eastern culture and history and philosophies.

Instructor: M. Carmen Juan Galiano

Contemporary Art

This course explores Contemporary Art, painting, sculpture, and architecture, and the multiplication and development of new forms of art: video, performance pieces, land and installation pieces, fashion and design. It also deals with the major issues in Contemporary art criticism.

Instructor: M. Carmen Juan Galiano

Art & Philosophy

This course deals with the natural, moral, and ethical ideas expressed in the arts. It provides an understanding of the ideological contexts within which modern and historical artists work, and the means by which art is interpreted. The course focuses in the ideas expressed through the visual, musical, and performing arts.

Instructor: Carmen Ramirez Hurtado

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Professionally recognized and validated degrees.

Accredited (Non USA CHEA). International legalization available.

Non formal and independent education.