The 2nd cycle Degree Course in History of Art is structured in a way to provide students with advanced training in the specific field , with advanced competences in the various sectors of figurative arts, arts ranging, in chronological order, from the Late Antique to the Middle Ages, to Modern and Contemporary Age; within the geographical area from the Byzantine to the western world; form strictly historical disciplines to historical methodological ones.
The course provides the ability to use appropriate tools for personal production, for publishing and for cataloguing historical and artistic heritage, as well as the methodological skills for proper literature search, study and interpretation of the primary or secondary sources.
The course provides a wide range of specialist Art History subjects (Phenomenology of Contemporary Art, Comparative History of the Art of European countries, and Art History in Sicily and the Mediterranean, etc.) and an in-depth methodological and critical investigation for the study and analysis of the artistic phenomena and their transmission patterns (methodology for the study of Decorative Arts, Contemporary Art teaching methodology and communication, History of Art Criticism, History of Miniatures, etc.).
These objectives are achieved through:
- Frontal teaching and seminars and subsequent written and/or oral testing of acquired competences;
- Field application of acquired competences and methodologies, through the synergy with the most important museums of Palermo ((Diocesan Museum, Regional Gallery "Palazzo Abatellis", etc.) which had declared their availability during the preliminary confrontation necessary for the development of the course;
- Specific lessons and/or practical activities designed to provide the skills necessary to conduct bibliographical and documentary searches on traditional media or via the Internet;
- The possible development of short written texts of personal bibliographical synthesis or analysis of the sources and their interpretation;
- The preparation of a final written paper, representing the main occasion for original and personal processing of the acquired knowledge and methods.
- The course also provides for optional disciplines to allow the students a partial autonomy in the characterization of their training.
- The duration of the 2nd cycle Degree Course in Art History is two years. To achieve the 2nd cycle Degree, students must have acquired 120 credits