Visual and Performed Arts
| Key facts | |
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| Location: | Canterbury |
| Award: | BA (Hons) |
| Type: | Full-time and part-time |
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| Online: | Department |
| Profile: | Student profile |
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 fine 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.
Degree programmes
Single honours
Did you know?
Kent was ranked 8th in the UK for Drama, Dance and Cinematics in The Times Good University Guide 2009.
- Visual and Performed Arts (W000)
Core modules
Stage 1
- The Shock of the Now: Themes in Contemporary Art
or:
- 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.
For a list of Drama and Theatre Studies modules and for Film Studies modules.
Teaching and assessment
Most modules are taught by lectures and small group seminars. Film modules involve screenings and seminars, where films are studied on an editing table. Drama modules may involve rehearsals and workshops.
All modules are assessed by 100% coursework (essays, class participation).
Entry requirements
Passing the Kent Foundation Programme for International Students guarantees you entry onto the first year of these degree programmes.
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Offer levels
A/AS level 280 points (3.5 A level equivalents) inc BC at A level, IB Diploma 33 points or IB Diploma with 14 points at Higher.
Required subjects
- None
Careers
Recent graduate destinations have included arts administration, advertising, teaching, journalism, curatorial postings and gallery administration, and further study.
