BA / Bachelor of Music Conjoint - Art History in Auckland New Zealand | University of Auckland

Enhance your music education by exploring diverse subjects across humanities, social sciences, cultures, and languages. Study under top researchers while refining your craft with guidance from the nation's premier instrumental instructors, music scholars, and composers. Our BABMus program cultivates crucial abilities to navigate and succeed in our rapidly transforming global economy and dynamic music sector. This degree prepares you for professional success by fostering key competencies like sophisticated communication, innovative problem-solving, research proficiency, analytical reasoning, adaptability, and cultural awareness. You'll gain the tools to capitalize on emerging possibilities shaped by societal shifts, technological advancements, and music industry evolution.

Art History investigates the multifaceted roles of visual arts across various cultures and historical eras – spanning aesthetic, social, religious, political, and commercial dimensions. The curriculum encompasses not just traditional mediums like painting and sculpture, but also architecture, photography, video art, performance pieces, design, and graphic arts. Our engaging lectures feature captivating visuals, presenting an array of stunning, thought-provoking, and occasionally contentious artworks. Students can examine renowned creators such as Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Marina Abramovic, Olafur Eliasson, Lisa Reihana, Simon Denny, among others. The program offers exploration of Renaissance and Baroque eras, Indigenous Pacific art, museum studies, modern art theory, intercultural representation, and digital media.