AH4218 The Art of Iran, 600 B.C. to 1700 A.D.

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Available to Art History single and joint Honours students

Module coordinator

Dr Y Yu

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Module description

The thread that runs through this entire module is that Iran has produced over the millennia one of the world's great civilisations, with a distinctive character of its own, a fact generally ignored by scholars and non-scholars alike. So the art of Iran tends to be studied as a sub-set of, say, antique or Islamic art. This approach obscures the abiding continuities of Iranian art, its originality and the way that it has transformed what it has received from the world beyond its borders. The module investigates how Iran?s geographical position, straddling the area between East and West Asia, with links to the world of the Inner Asian steppe to the north and the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent to the south, has determined both the ideas that it has received and, reciprocally, those that it has transmitted across Eurasia, from Greece in the west to China and Japan in the east, from c.600 BC to1500 AD. The course covers architecture, sculpture, pottery, metalwork and book painting.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

ENTRY TO THE ART HISTORY HONOURS PROGRAMME

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100% (1 x Written assignment to be agreed by the Board of Examiners)

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 hour lectures (10 weeks), 2 hour seminar (10 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

280

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.