This module discusses the main topics of current critical and methodological debates within art and design history. You will learn to debate and analyse ‘critical positions’, both orally and in written form.

Each week you will consider a single theme summarised broadly by a single word. This approach enables you to:

• explore how art and design has been explained and theorised through the critical gaze of history; whilst
• acknowledging and investigating the role of theory as a generative aspect of the art and design process.