A218 Medicine and Society in Europe 1500-1930
This course traces developments in medicine from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century, showing how a heritage of medical thought and practice inherited from classical Greece gradually became a recognisably modern medicine. It aims to set medicine in its social, political and economic contexts, looking at the patient's changing experience of illness, their access to care, and the role and identity of healers across Europe. It shows how western medicine interacted with ideas from contemporary science, religion, and other systems of thought. The course provides a fascinating introduction to the last five centuries of medical history.

AA318 Art of the Twentieth Century
The course acquaints students with the fundamental changes that have taken place in the concepts and practices of art during the 20th Century. You are introduced to different types of art, ranging from work in traditional media such as painting and sculpture to contemporary videos and installations. You will be asked to engage with a variety of critical and theoretical interpretations of art. Central topics in the course include the relation of the modernist mainstream to new ‘post-modernist' standpoints, the status of the art object, the role of gender and identity, and the place of a predominantly European tradition in an increasingly globalized culture.

Check out some other relevant courses:
A170 Perspectives on Leonardo da Vinci
AT308 Cities and Technology: from Babylon to Singapore
A220 Princes and Peoples: France and the British Isles 1620-1714
A354 Art, Society and Religion in Siena, Florence and Padua 1280-1400
A424 Display and Devotion: Religious Painting in Italy, 1300 -1500
AA311 Reading Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill
AA305 The Renaissance in Europe: a Cultural Enquiry
A840 Postgraduate Foundation Module in Art History
F33 Master of Arts in Art History
C36 Certificate in Humanities
BA (Honours) Humanities

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