Preparing for A105

Voices, texts and material culture builds on the skills and knowledge which you have been developing by studying The Arts past and present and you'll find it useful to review some sections of A100 module materials.

To get started:

• revisit the growth of the British Museum and early collections
• recall anthropology and aesthetics and the Pitt Rivers Museum
• read about the Benin bronzes
• think again about Roman Villas
• read the useful information on Evaluating Historical Evidence.

You might also find it useful to:

• refresh your ideas about Buddhism from the chapter on the Dalai Lama
• recall what a madrigal is
• revisit Catholic and Protestant Christianity from the chapter on tradition and dissent
• read this extract about dismantling of religious objects
• think about Approaches to translation
• think again about tradition and dissent in music
• read this extract about Antigone (it includes a summary of the play)
• consider the following readings in relation to The Island (Reading 1) and (Reading 2)
• refresh what you know about referencing.

Finally you might like to:

• refresh your ideas about what history is
• remind yourself about using historical evidence
• consider how to use historical sources
• listen to an audio recording about employability and the Arts and Humanities.