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Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)

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The Diploma in History of Art: Renaissance and Baroque offers an opportunity for students to focus on specific periods of visual culture in more depth. The core subjects taught are “Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy” and “International Baroque”. The subject of unit 3 in 2021-22 is “Visual Cultures of Central Europe: Germany, Hungary and Poland, 1400 – 1800”. 

Sessions on academic and other skills pertinent to the topics being covered are also part of the course.

Progression for students studying this course is provided in the Undergraduate Diploma in History of Art: British Visual Culture, due to run in 2022-23.

Our undergraduate courses are now being delivered entirely online, enabling students to study flexibly with the University of Cambridge from anywhere in the world.

We offer a range of tuition fee bursaries to promote access to and participation in continuing education. This includes the Cambridge Thousand Futures Bursary that supports adults who have been most affected by COVID-19.

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Teaching & Assessment

How will I be taught and assessed?

Teaching

The content, activities and interaction for each of the three units will be taught remotely using video-based teaching platforms and an online course Virtual Learning Environment. You will have access to resources, discussion forums, and course tasks within ICE's Virtual Learning Environment. Teaching methods will include lectures, presentations by guest speakers and facilitators, interactive and experiential learning activities, reading and assignments to be completed by participants outside classroom sessions and online discussion forums. 

All students are expected to take an active part in the course and submit work showing evidence of learning. Your learning will be enhanced by: 

  • engaging with scheduled teaching sessions;  
  • participating in class activities and discussion; 
  • undertaking reading and assignments set by the tutor; 
  • accessing resources and submitting assignments through the VLE. 

Course Timeline 

  • Course (Unit 1) Start Date: Friday 8 October 2021 
  • Unit 1 submission deadline: Wednesday 5 January 2022 
  • Unit 2 start date: Week commencing 3 January 2022 
  • Unit 2 submission deadline: Wednesday 23 March 2022 
  • Unit 3 start date: Week commencing 28 March 2022 
  • Unit 3 submission deadline: Friday 10 June 2022 

Assessment

Successful completion of each year of the Diploma will mean that students have to either:

a)     Submit three module-based essays of c.3500 words each;

OR

b)     Submit two module-based essays of c.3500; prepare and deliver an illustrated presentation to the group, and complete another short written task (examples include writing a wall label, completing a visual analysis report, etc.).

In addition to attending the scheduled teaching sessions and submitting assignments you will need to set aside time for independent study. Credit is generally calculated in terms of hours of study and assumes that each credit is awarded for around 10 hours of successful learning; so, by this calculation, a 60-credit course will involve around 600 hours of successful study. Examples of how study may be broken down are: pre-class preparation, classroom time (lectures, seminars, discussion, presentations, debates, case-studies etc.); engagement with the VLE; peer-to-peer interaction, preparations for assignments, assignment writing and feedback and so on. 

What is the status of this qualification?

The Certificate is taught and awarded at second-year undergraduate level (FHEQ 5) and offers 60 credits within the Higher Education Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS). This is equivalent to half of the second year of full-time undergraduate study.

Documents

Unless otherwise stated, teaching and assessment for ICE courses are in English. If your first language is not English, please refer to our Information for Applicants pages for further guidance.

Course dates

08 Oct 2021 to 10 Jun 2022

Course duration

1 Year

Apply by

06 Sep 2021

Course fee

£2,250

Academic director

Academic Directors, Course Directors and Tutors are subject to change, when necessary.

Venue

Virtual Classroom
(via Zoom or equivalent)

Qualifications / Credits

60 credits at Level 5

Course code

2122DCR615