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Visual and Performed Arts – (B.A.)
University of Kent, Canterbury Campus
School of Arts| Application Deadline: | You are advised to apply as early as possible | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 3,907 - ≈ € 13,000 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Canterbury / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 36 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 180 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Kent, Canterbury Campus
Visual and Performed Arts (VPA) is a multidisciplinary programme which is unique to Kent. It is run by departments with an international reputation for academic excellence and subject innovation.
VPA enables you to combine the study of art, drama and film, and has been designed as a degree for students with a broad interest in the arts. It draws on module options from the degrees in History & Philosophy of Art, Film Studies and Drama and Theatre Studies. During Stages 2 and 3, you have the opportunity to specialise in any of these subjects. VPA is principally a historical and theoretical programme, but Film and Drama also offer more practice-based programmes.
Kent has among the highest graduate employment rates within UK universities, with many VPA students going on to secure employment across the public and private sectors, including positions in arts administration, broadcasting, curatorial careers, journalism, teaching and postgraduate research.
Careers
Our graduates have an excellent employment record. Through your study, you gain key transferable skills that are considered essential by graduate employers. These include excellent communication skills, the ability to work in a team and independently, the ability to analyse and summarise complex material and present your findings with clarity and flair.
Recent graduate destinations have included arts administration, advertising, teaching, journalism, curatorial postings and gallery administration, and further study.
Contents
Stage 1
* The Shock of the Now: Themes in Contemporary Art
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* Thinking about Photography and its Histories
Plus 30 credits from:
* High Art and Low Life: Approaching Art History
* Inner Worlds: Psychoanalytic Thinking and the Visual Arts
* Now that is Art! Aesthetics and the Visual Arts
* Thinking about Photography and its Histories.
Plus the following modules, depending on which pathway you choose to follow at Stage 2.
Film Studies
* Introduction to Narrative Cinema: American Cinema
* Introduction to Narrative Cinema: World Cinema
Drama and Theatre Studies
* Modern Theatre: A Theoretical Landscape
Stage 2
Core modules
* Reading the Image
Film Studies
Either two History & Philosophy of Art options (see list below) and one Film Studies core module, or one History & Philosophy of Art option and two Film Studies core modules.
Drama
Two History & Philosophy of Art options (see list below) and one Drama module.
Options
* Art and Architecture of the Renaissance
* Art and Film
* Beauty in Theory, Culture and Contemporary Art
* Classicism and Baroque
* Contemporary Art: From Warhol to Whiteread: Postmodernity and Visual Art Practice
* French Painting in the 19th Century: The Origins of Modernism
* Historiography of Art: Selected Texts from Winckelmann to Greenberg
* History and Aesthetics of Photography 1 and 2
* Independent Study in History & Philosophy of Art
* Making Photographs: Camera, Light and Darkroom
* Photography and Intuition
* Print Collecting and Curating
* Russian Painting from the Academy to the Avant-Garde
* The Sublime, the Disgusting and the Laughable
* Visual Arts Internship (available to Stage 3 students only)
Stage 3
Core module
* Patronage and Cultural Organisations
Film Studies
Either two History & Philosophy of Art options (see list under Stage 2) and one Film Studies module, or one History & Philosophy of Art option and two Film Studies modules.
Drama
Either two History & Philosophy of Art options (see list under Stage 2) and one 30-credit Drama module, or one History & Philosophy of Art option and one 60-credit Drama module.
A list of Drama and Theatre Studies modules, and Film Studies modules.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
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Offer levels
A/AS level 280 points (3 A level equivalents) inc BC at A level, IB Diploma 33 points or IB Diploma with 14 points at Higher.
Tariffs
* A-level: / 280 pts
* IB Higher: 14
* IB Overall: 33
Required subjects
* BC at A level
English language entry requirements
In order to enter directly onto a degree course. you also need to prove your proficiency in English, and we ask for one of the following:
* average 6.5 in IELTS test, minimum 6.0 in reading and writing
* a TOEFL score of at least 580 including 4.0 reading and writing (paper-based test) or 85 including 19 reading and writing (internet-based test)
* grade C in Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English
* grade B in Cambridge Advanced Certificate in English
* international GCSE English as a first language grade C; as a second language grade B.
We also accept some school English certificates,
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | High School diploma |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.0 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 580 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 85 |
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