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Art History @HKU

We offer art history training from Bachelor level up to MA, MPhil and PhD level. Our courses are open to students from all faculties and year groups, attracting a large enrollment every year.
Explore the Art History programmes at HKU now!

Art History @HKU

We offer art history training from Bachelor level to MA, MPhil and PhD level. Our courses are open to students from all faculties and year groups, attracting a large enrollment every year. Explore the Art History programme at HKU now!
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Academic Programmes >

Undergraduate

4 year curriculum

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MA

1 year curriculum

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MPhil & PhD

2-4 year curriculum

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Our Full-time Faculty >

We are now a team of 8 full-time teaching faculty, with a wide range of teaching expertise and research areas.

Resource Centre >

The Art History Resource Centre is the hub of our community. It houses our departmental library and archives. Students are welcome to use the space during its opening hours:
Monday to Friday, 9am-1pm, 2pm-5:30pm
10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Books

Online Library Catalogue

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FAIVA

Digital Image Database

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HKAA

Hong Kong Art Archive

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Links

External Resources

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Other Highlights

News

Changes in Art History courses offerings

First semester:  ARTH2025: Art of the Baroque ca. 1560-1720 and ARTH2072 Western architecture from Antiquity to Enlightenment will not be offered in the first semester. We will offer a different course, ARTH2087: Buddhist art of East Asia. This will be taught on Thursdays, 4:30-6:20pm. Second semester:  ARTH2025: Art of the Baroque ca. 1560-1720 will be offered in the second semester, on Wednesdays, 4:30-6:20pm at CPD1.24.

Class schedule: ARTH3014 & ARTH7002 (First semester)

Dr. Angie Baecker’s courses, ARTH3014 The whys of where: an East Asian art history of imaginative geographies and ARTH7002 Art history: materials, techniques, and collections in the first semester, will start during the week of October 2. Course instruction will end at the same time as other courses (during the week of November 27).

Class schedule: ARTH2118 & ARTH4004 (Second semester)

Prof. Joshua Shannon's courses, ARTH2118 Finding “Nature”: Ecology in Western Modern Art and ARTH4004: Perspectives in Art History in the second semester, will have late starting dates. They will begin in the week of February 26 and end in the week of April 15.

Events

Applying to Graduate School

September 27 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Hong Kong Art Timeline

The project provides a temporal map tracing events from the 1930s to the present, which includes relevant social and political events that have shaped the art world including the making of museums, government policies and shifts in financial or educational sectors.

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Upcoming Events

  1. Applying to Graduate School

    September 27 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

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