Our Special Options change from year to year as we seek to refresh and expand our offer. We aim to confirm these at least twelve months in advance, and will always contact applicants immediately in rare instances where changes have to be made.
In 2024/5 we are especially pleased to include new or returning Special Options, including Court and Commerce: Arts of Islam and the Great Mongol State, 1206-1368 and The Surrealist Century: Mediums, Madness, Magic and the Manifesto of Surrealism (1924). Please note that this is only a partial list of Special Options available in 2024/5, and we will continue to update this page as more options are confirmed. The complete list will be available in October.
Applications for the Special Options listed below will open in October 2023 for September 2024 entry; some of these options may still be open for 2023 entry – please check on the course pages for more information.
Special Options 2024/25
Beijing and Beyond: Art and Empire in Early Modern China
Beyond Utopia: Soviet and Post-Soviet Art
Black Futures. Reimagining Modernism after critical race
Court and Commerce: Arts of Islam and the Great Mongol State, 1206-1368
Continuity and Innovation: Reframing Italian Renaissance Art from Masaccio to Michelangelo
Circum-Atlantic Visual Culture c.1770-1830
Countercultures: Alternative Art in Eastern Europe since 1968
Experiencing Modernism: Utopia, Politics, and Times of Turmoil
Medieval Art & Architecture 1066-1603: England & Beyond
No Black in the Union Jack? Postwar Black British Art, 1945 to now
Reinterpreting the Object. Late Medieval and Renaissance Art in Northern Europe c. 1360-1520
Telling Stories: performing identities and histories in art (1970 to the present)
The Sixties: Eccentric, Erotic, Psychotic
The Surrealist Century: Mediums, Madness, Magic and the Manifesto of Surrealism (1924)