BA Art History & Visual Culture and English
About this course
BA in Art History & Visual Culture and English, an undergraduate degree spanning English and History of Art. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students can complete a dissertation in English Literature, Creative Writing, or Art History & Visual Culture in their final year. The first year introduces fundamental concepts through compulsory modules such as Questions and Methods in Art History and Visual Culture and Beginnings: English Literature before 1800, alongside optional modules covering topics such as museum studies, visual media, poetry, the novel, and Shakespeare. The second year features compulsory practical study through Art History and Visual Culture Field Study for Blended Learning, complemented by various optional modules focusing on periods from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to modernism, alongside creative writing and cultural studies. In the final year, students select further advanced options and undertake a substantial independent research project.
Modules
- Questions and Methods in Art History and Visual Culture
- Beginnings: English Literature before 1800
- 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
- Digital Cultures: Narrative, Creativity, Industry
- The Novel
- The Poem
- Academic English
- Rethinking Shakespeare
- Imagine This: Prompts for Creative Writing
- 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
- Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640
- Theatrical Cultures in Early Modern England
- Chaucer and His Contemporaries
- Renaissance and Revolution
- Satire and the City: English Literature 1660-1750
- Revolutions and Evolutions 19C Writings
- Modernism and Modernity: Literature 1900-1960
- Romanticism
- Empire of Liberty: American Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
- Adaptations: Text, Image, Culture
- Creative Writing: Building a Story
- Creative Writing: Making a Poem
- British Cultures: The Exeter Seminar
- Humanities after the Human: Further Adventures in Critical Theory
- Culture, Crisis and Ecology in a Postcolonial World