B.F.A. (Sculpture) History of Art Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.F.A. (Sculpture), Circular No. UG/210 of 2004 dated 28 May 2004 (Ordinances 5324 to 5330, Regulations 4545 to 4568), in force from the academic year 2004-2005. Circular No. UG/353 of 2008 amended the Final Year ordinance, O.5329, and changed no subject. It is still the scheme examined: the University set the Summer 2026 papers on it — History of Art (83301) and Aesthetics (83302) in the Second Year, History of Art (83401) in the Final Year — and has published no later B.F.A. syllabus. The First Year B.F.A. examination is conducted by the college recognised by the University of Mumbai, not by the University itself.
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Syllabus for History of Art
The University prints this subject as “HISTORY OF ART”, numbered 1 in the First Year B.F.A. syllabus.
MU’s published scan of the Sculpture branch has no folio 8. Folio 7 ends at “Pillar – Lauriya, Nandangarh, Rampurva, and Sarnath” and folio 9 opens on the next subject, so the rest of this paper’s syllabus — the Shunga, Satavahana and Kushan dynasties, and the whole of Western Art from Prehistoric to Roman — is missing from the document MU publishes for this branch. It is not missing from the course: the First Year is one foundation year common to all seven B.F.A. branches, and MU prints the same page as folio 8 of each of the others.
Group I (Theory) Lectures per Academic Year: 90 hours
- Indian Art
- Prehistoric Art
- #Bhimbetka and other sites of India
- #Cave painting – Theme and Technique
- Indus Valley Civilization – Mohanjo Daro, Harappa Civilization
- #Town Planning, Great Bath
- #Sculpture: The bearded man, Dancing girl, Male Torso, Male of a Dancing torso, Mother Goddess, etc.
- : Seals, and toys, painting and pottery
- Maurya Dynasty
- #Architecture – Lomash Rishi’s cave
- #Sculpture – Yakshani from Didarganj
- Yakha from patna and parkham
- #Pillar – Lauriya, Nandangarh, Rampurva, and Sarnath
Cut from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.F.A. (Sculpture), Circular No. UG/210 of 2004, page 7 of that syllabus. Wording, spelling and numbering are as printed there. The University sets no reading list for this course.
The complete syllabus
This subject is cut from the University circular for the whole degree. Open the document here if you want the whole thing rather than a single subject.