The curriculum of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design’s History and Theory department is based on an interdisciplinary approach that advocates conceptual and content-related pluralism with a view to enriching and inspiring Bezalel’s students. The department accompanies the students along their various study tracks, where they will formulate their worldviews as young artists, and exposes them to the history and theory of art during the creative process.
The History and Theory department offers Bezalel’s students a huge variety of fields of knowledge and its lecturers specialize in the history of art and design from ancient times up to the present. The curriculum has been designed to tie the practical aspects of the creative process, to which all the students are exposed, to the theoretical aspects that drive it. The department provides a meeting ground for the creative content worlds and their history and theory in order to deepen the students’ understanding of the culture and society in which they are working.
All Bezalel’s students are required to take courses in the History and Theory Department. The classes in the department continue over four years parallel to the studies in Bezalel’s other departments and units. In the first two years, the students acquire credits by taking compulsory courses and in the next two years, students may acquire credits by taking elective courses.