BA Art History & Visual Culture and Drama
Entry requirements
A-Level: ABB IB: 32/655 BTEC: DDM
About this course
BA in Art History & Visual Culture and Drama, a joint-honours degree in History of Art and Drama spanning both creative disciplines. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. This flexible programme offers equal opportunities to study traditional fine art alongside contemporary visual forms and engage in practical theatre-making. The first year covers core foundations through compulsory modules such as Questions and Methods in Art History and Visual Culture, Performance Analysis, and The Creative Actor, with optional choices including Inside the Museum and Visual Media. The second year features the compulsory Art History and Visual Culture Field Study for Blended Learning, alongside a broad selection of optional modules covering subjects like Writing for Stage, Screen and Across Media, Acting Shakespeare, and Entertainment Technologies. Optional modules across the course allow students to explore diverse topics in both subject areas, ranging from contemporary visual practices to applied drama and performance technologies.
Modules
- Questions and Methods in Art History and Visual Culture
- Performance Analysis
- The Creative Actor
- Inside the Museum
- Visual Media
- Topics in Art History and Visual Culture I
- Topics in Art History and Visual Culture II
- Approaches to Art History and Visual Culture
- Art History and Visual Culture Field Study for Blended Learning
- Debates and Contestations in Art History
- Contemporary Visual Practices
- Photography and Evidence
- Contemporary Art and Curation
- Common Threads: Art, Craft and Activism
- Renaissances North and South: Italy and the Netherlands
- Revolutions! Art and Society in France, 1770-1830
- The Dutch Golden Age
- The New York Avant-Garde 1955-1980
- Comics Studies: Histories, Methodologies, Genres
- Creative Industries: Their Past, Our Future
- Intimate Spaces of the French Enlightenment
- Chinoiserie and Européenerie: Artistic and Vultural Exchanges between China and Europe
- Writing for Stage, Screen and Across Media
- Acting Shakespeare
- Popular Performance Practices
- Applied Drama: Touring, Directing and Facilitating
- Approaches to Acting and Contemporary Performance Making
- Entertainment Technologies
- Performing Culture: Theatre, Media, Identity
- Audiences, Participation, Immersion
- Activism and Performance
- Musicals: Critical Perspectives in Contemporary Contexts
- Creative Producing: People, Culture and Collaboration
- Voices Across Stage and Screen
- Performance in the Age of Screens: Intermedial Theatre