BA Art History & Visual Culture and Film & Television Studies
Entry requirements
A-Level: ABB IB: 32/655 BTEC: DDM
About this course
BA in Art History & Visual Culture and Film & Television Studies is a history of art and film studies degree focused on the critical study of visual culture, film, and television. Core topics include Programming and Fieldwork. The course includes access to campus cultural venues such as The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum and the Exeter Northcott Theatre. The first year establishes methodological foundations through compulsory modules including Questions and Methods in Art History and Visual Culture, Major Debates in Film Theory, and Interrogating Screens, alongside optional choices such as Inside the Museum. The second year features compulsory practical learning through Art History and Visual Culture Field Study for Blended Learning, while allowing students to select from diverse optional modules spanning filmmaking, world cinemas, and contemporary visual practices. Optional study areas cover topics such as scriptwriting, television history, and specific artistic movements from the Renaissance to the modern era.
Modules
- Questions and Methods in Art History and Visual Culture
- Major Debates in Film Theory
- Interrogating Screens
- 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
- Global Impressionisms
- Filmmaking
- Script Craft: Writing for Screen and Stage
- Shots in the Dark
- Television: Times, Trends and Technologies
- Scrublands, Sanctuary, Screens: Co-creating Knowledges alongside Donkeys
- Adaptations: Text, Image, Culture
- Fanatical: Fan Culture and Identity
- World Cinemas: Representations, Histories, Conflicts
- World Cinemas: Contexts, Environments, Industries