World arts and artefacts

Lecture at the British Museum

Learn about art and artefacts from around the world through the British Museum’s collection with the Certificate and Diploma programme. The programme is organised jointly by the British Museum and Birkbeck University – a unique partnership for the study of arts and artefacts from a wide range of cultural traditions, geographical regions and historical periods.

Modules can also be taken individually and not as part of the Certificate.

There are no entry requirements but all modules are taught at university level and students should be able to read, write and speak English fluently to benefit from their studies.

To gain the Certificate, students must take the core module Approaches to World Arts and Artefacts (30 CATS points) and select option modules amounting to a further 90 CATS points. There is no time limit and assessment is by coursework.

Core module: Approaches to World Arts and Artefacts

22 Mondays from 28 September, 18.30–20.30
Sackler Rooms

This course explores how Western collectors, art historians and anthropologists have studied, valued, interpreted and exhibited artwork from different cultural traditions.
Tutor: Ben Burt and Fiona Candlin

FFWO025S4ACB CE
30 CATS points at Level 4
£350 (£175) / £400 (£200)

Booking information

For more information and to book, contact +44 (0)20 7631 6652
or visit www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/worldart

Concessionary fees are displayed within the brackets. If you are a student that already has an equivalent level of qualification to the Certificate you will need to pay either the full price or concessionary rate from the higher set of fees.

Term 1 option modules

  • Arabic calligraphy: practising Naskh script
  • Temple, table and tomb: Chinese ceramics in the Percival David Collection
  • Art for eternity: ancient Egyptian art in the British Museum
  • Chinese calligraphy
  • Moctezuma: the man and the Aztec empire

Term 2 option modules

  • Arabic calligraphy: studying Kufi scripts
  • Feast: the art of world food
  • Sites, sights and insights: an introduction to African art
  • I dreamt I saw Chairman Mao: images of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
  • Landscape in Chinese brush painting

Term 3 option modules

  • Chinese silk: threads of lustre and tradition
  • Echoes of Islam: Mudejar art in Iberia and South America
  • Iznik tiles: floral motifs in dynamic arrangements
  • From erotica to El Dorado: pre-Columbian treasures of South America
  • Gold, turquoise and jade: Amerindian jewellery through the centuries
  • The image of God: religious art in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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