Our Courses

Advanced Architectural Research

The course combines study of the history, archaeology and art of all these classical world. It looks at the societies and cultures of the ancient Greel Mediterranean world through their written texts.

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• 10
• 1 year
• Campus L2

Advanced Landscape & Urbanism

Fine Art is the making and study of visual art. It educates and prepares students to become artists and to follow other practices that are aligned to the making of art.

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• 28
• 2 year
• Campus L1

Transdisciplinary Design

The Ruskin School of Art offers a three-year studio-based BFA course in which students work alongside each other in collaboratively organised studios.

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• 1 year
• Campus L3

Economics & Quality Management

Whereas many fine art courses run in an environment devoted exclusively to art and design, Ruskin students, as members of a collegiate university, have the advantage of contact.

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• 11
• 1 year
• Campus L2

Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE)

Jack Stanton, who graduated in 2013 and now works as a professional artist, recalls: ‘I think the most important element of the Ruskin is the seriousness with which your work is considered by tutors.

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• 1 year
• Campus L2

Modern Languages and Linguistics

The first year of the course is structured to introduce students to each other, to the resources of the school and to the staff involved in teaching and running the Ruskin.

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• 21
• 2 year
• Campus L3

History (Ancient and Modern)

The intimate working environment of the school, arranged in two buildings, allows art history, theory and criticism to be treated as integral to the development of studio work.

• 188
• 11
• 1 year
• Campus L2

Classical Archaeology & Ancient History

After graduation, most students go on to work in fine art as practising artists, teachers and art writers, or as curators in public and private galleries and for arts councils and organisations.

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• 30
• 1 year
• Campus L2