Programme Specification for the 2023/4 academic year
BA (Hons) Art History & Visual Culture and Drama with Employment Experience Abroad
1. Programme Details
| Programme name | BA (Hons) Art History & Visual Culture and Drama with Employment Experience Abroad | Programme code | UFA4HPSDRA02 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Study mode(s) | Full Time Part Time |
Academic year | 2023/4 |
| Campus(es) | Streatham (Exeter) |
NQF Level of the Final Award | 6 (Honours) |
2. Description of the Programme
This programme is a challenging and flexible degree that builds on two internationally-renowned centres of excellence in research, teaching and theatre practice. Our teaching grows out of our wide-ranging, world-leading research interests and we provide a supportive and high-quality environment for learning. The programme will give you a thorough grounding in the main themes and methods of Art History & Visual Culture and Drama. It will be of particular interest if your background is in fine and modern art, the history of art, cinema, performance, literature, cultural history, philosophy, sociology or modern languages. Art History & Visual Culture and Drama enables you to divide your time equally between two related subject areas.
In Art History & Visual Culture, you will learn how to interpret works of art (including architecture and design) and visual images (including images, objects and practices) in order to understand contemporary and past societies and you will be able to follow your interests through a wide range of optional modules: you can choose to study art and material culture in ancient societies; look in detail at the way art history works; or focus on visual culture within a specific society or time period right up to the modern day. Modules are designed to provide you with a sense of the range and variety of artistic and visual works, and to encourage you to engage critically with these works understood in their historical and theoretical contexts. You will explore the media, techniques, and historical contexts relevant to the production of these works, the terminology used to describe and evaluate them and the institutions that present them to the public.
In Drama, you will develop an understanding of performance skills alongside a critical and imaginative engagement with the social, historical and cultural contexts of theatre. Involvement in contemporary theatre is central, both as a subject of research and as a practical experience through performance and community-based activities. Studio-based work also equips you with abilities to communicate effectively, to pursue creative analysis and to initiate and organise complex individual and group projects.
You will study half of your modules from Drama and the other half from Visual Culture. As a whole, Drama and Visual Culture offers you a coherent programme of study, balancing core elements with a choice of specialist topics to suit your individual aspirations and requirements.
This programme is studied over four years. The first two years and the final year are university-based, and the third year is spent gaining employment experience at a suitable location abroad.
This Employment Experience Abroad variant of the programme is a great way to incorporate graduate-level work placement or placements undertaken outside of the United Kingdom directly into your programme of study, to reflect critically upon these experiences, and for them to count towards the assessment of your degree. There is no better way to gain valuable employment experience that can be rewarded and recognised clearly by future employers. With preparation, support and approval from the College of Humanities, including in foreign languages if required, you can also demonstrate adaptability and resourcefulness by organising suitable placements in areas of employment related to your interests and potential future career. This variant of the programme also provides a great way to demonstrate to employers your adaptability, cultural awareness, independence and resourcefulness. Experiencing the differences and similarities of education and people in another culture will increase your confidence and broaden the ways in which you see and relate to the world and the world of work.
You are required to find your own placement with suitable employers and organisations with preparation, support and approval from the College of Humanities. If you are taking this variant you are strongly encouraged to take HUM2000 or HUM2001 (Humanities in the Workplace) at stage 2 and must participate in the pre-departure briefing sessions for Humanities Employment Experience Abroad.
Advice and guidance on your programme can be sought from your personal tutor and programme director. All staff offer regular office hours that you can drop into without a prior appointment for this purpose.
3. Educational Aims of the Programme
This programme aims to develop your competence in the subject specific and research skills required in both Art History & Visual Culture and Drama, through extended practical work, engagement with primary sources, relevant critical material, and theoretical contexts. You will acquire a thorough grounding in the core principles of Art History & Visual Culture and Drama, through a programme which engages you imaginatively in the process of understanding and analysing both subject areas. Art History & Visual Culture and Drama will involve you in learning with broad coverage, content, and methodology: throughout the programme, you will study a wide range of techniques and texts, film, video, performance and digital arts, painting, sculpture, illustration and architecture.
You will also acquire advanced competence in core academic, personal and key skills, particularly those based on social interaction and communication, providing a basis for career progression in the academic and professional worlds. You will be exposed to a variety of teaching and assessment methods within appropriate learning environments, supported by feedback and monitoring. You will also be given an opportunity to develop your independent study skills through a piece of individual research, and to develop your professional skills: through close association with practitioners within the professions of theatre and performance, and through engagement with galleries, museums and the University’s own art and heritage collections.
The programme provides an intellectually stimulating, satisfying learning experience, and forms a sound basis for further study in Art History & Visual Culture, Drama or related disciplines. It aims to develop a range of subject specific, academic and transferable skills, including high order conceptual literacy and communication skills of value in graduate employment. Art History & Visual Culture and Drama, like other programmes offered within the College of Humanities, encourages you to become a global citizen, a productive, useful and questioning member of society, and provides thorough training for further study or a specialist career. You may utilise the skills you develop in a range of sectors, including heritage management, museums and galleries, arts administration, consultancy, market research, the civil service, education, teaching, new media industries, journalism and publishing, research, charities, information science, advertising and public relations.
4. Programme Structure
5. Programme Modules
The following tables describe the programme and constituent modules. Constituent modules may be updated, deleted or replaced as a consequence of the annual programme review of this programme.
http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/studying/undergraduates/modules/
You may take optional modules as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module. You are expected to balance your credits in each stage of the programme, taking 60 credits from Art History & Visual Culture, and 60 credits from Drama.
You may take elective modules up to 30 credits outside of the programme in the second and final stages as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module.
Stage 1
30 credits of compulsory Art History & Visual Culture modules, 60 credits of compulsory Drama modules, and 30 credits of optional Art History & Visual Culture modules.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHV1001 | Introducing Visual Culture | 30 | No |
| DRA1016 | Performance Analysis | 30 | No |
| DRA1018 | The Creative Actor | 30 | No |
| HAS1905 | Employment Experience HASS | 0 | No |
Optional Modules
Subject to choosing 120 credits for the stage overall, you must:
a select either AHV1005 and AHV1009, or AHV1012, selecting 30 credits in total.
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHV Stage 1 CH Option Modules 2023-4 [See note a above] | |||
| AHV1006 | Visual Media | 15 | No |
| AHV1008 | Topics in Art History and Visual Culture I | 15 | No |
| MLM1010 | China of the Senses: Approaching Chinese Culture and Environments | 15 | No |
| AHV1005 | Inside the Museum | 15 | No |
| AHV1009 | Topics in Art History and Visual Culture II | 15 | No |
| MLF1121 | French Visual History | 15 | No |
Stage 2
30 credits of compulsory Art History & Visual Culture modules, 30 credits of optional Art History & Visual Culture modules and 60 credits of optional Drama modules.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHV2015 | Art History and Visual Culture Field Study for Blended Learning | 30 | No |
| HAS2905 | Employment Experience HASS | 0 | No |
Optional Modules
Subject to choosing 120 credits for the stage overall, you must:
b select 30 credits from this list of optional Art History & Visual Culture modules (including HUM2000 and HUM2001 Humanities in the Workplace).
c select 60 credits from this list of optional Drama modules (including HUM2000 and HUM2001 Humanities in the Workplace) - Students can only take one practice module and one Drama seminar module.
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHV Stage 2 CH Option Modules 2023-4 [See note b above] | |||
| AHV2002 | Debates and Contestations in Art History | 15 | No |
| AHV2013 | Photography and Evidence | 15 | No |
| AHV2018 | Comics Studies: Histories, Methodologies, Genres | 30 | No |
| AHV2021 | American Photographs | 15 | No |
| AHV2022 | Animals in Nineteenth-century Art and Visual Culture | 15 | No |
| AHV2208 | Ideal Cities? Urban Cultures of Renaissance Italy | 15 | No |
| EAS2089 | Creative Industries: Their Past, Our Future | 30 | No |
| AHV2007 | Contemporary Visual Practices | 15 | No |
| AHV2009 | The New York Avant-Garde 1955-1980 | 30 | No |
| AHV2012 | Revolutions: Art and Society in France, 1770-1848 | 30 | No |
| AHV2019 | Common Threads: Art, Craft and Activism | 15 | No |
| AHV2020 | Deconstructing the Dutch Golden Age: Nationalism, Exceptionalism and Decline | 15 | No |
| MLF2066 | Intimate Spaces of the French Enlightenment | 15 | No |
| MLM2003 | Chinoiserie and Europeenerie: Artistic and cultural exchanges between China and Europe | 15 | No |
| DRA Stage 2 Option Modules 2023-4 [See note c above] | |||
| DRA2026 | Applied Drama: Interactive Theatre | 30 | No |
| DRA2028 | Performance and Participation | 30 | No |
| DRA2044 | Acting Shakespeare | 30 | No |
| DRA2045 | Theatre and Health | 30 | No |
| DRA2047 | Interpretive Acting | 30 | No |
| DRA2061B | Digital Theatrecrafts | 30 | No |
| DRA2071 | Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre and Performance | 30 | No |
| DRA2072 | Culture in / as Performance | 30 | No |
| DRA2083 | Intermedial Performance Practice | 30 | No |
| DRA2087 | Activism and Performance | 30 | No |
| DRA2092 | Modernist Drama in Contemporary Theatre | 30 | No |
| DRA2104 | Approaches to Comedy | 30 | No |
| DRA2105 | Eco-Theatre: Outdoor and Immersive Performance | 30 | No |
| DRA2106 | Theatres of Space, Form and Colour | 30 | No |
| DRA2107 | Popular Performance Practices | 30 | No |
| DRA2108 | Introduction to Creative Producing: Making Change and Shifting Cultures | 30 | No |
| DRA2109 | Ensemble Acting: Co-Creation | 30 | No |
| HUM HUM2000-HUM2001 | |||
| HUM2000 | Humanities in the Workplace | 30 | No |
| HUM2001 | Humanities in the Workplace | 15 | No |
Stage 3
120 credits of compulsory modules.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUM3997 | Employment Experience Abroad | 120 | Yes |
Stage 4
0-30 credits of compulsory Art History & Visual Culture modules, 0-30 credits of compulsory Drama modules, 30-60 credits of optional Art History & Visual Culture modules, and 30-60 credits of optional Drama modules.
Compulsory Modules
Subject to choosing 120 credits for the stage overall, you must:
d select either AHV3000 or DRA3094 (you cannot choose more than one module from this group).
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHV3000 | Art History and Visual Culture Dissertation [see note d above] | 30 | No |
| DRA3094 | Theatre Dissertation [see note d above] | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
e if selecting DRA3094,select 30-60 credits from this list of optional Art History & Visual Culture modules.
f if selecting AHV3000, select 30-60 credits from this list of optional Drama modules.
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHV Final Stage CH Option Modules 2023-4 [See note e above] | |||
| AHV3003 | The Face | 15 | No |
| AHV3008 | Performance Art | 15 | No |
| HUM3015 | The Place of Meaning: Gardens in Britain and China | 15 | No |
| MLG3036 | Dictatorships on Display: History Exhibitions in Germany and Austria | 15 | No |
| EAF3515 | Something to See: War and Visual Media | 30 | No |
| EAS3245 | The 21st Century Museum | 30 | No |
| EAS3421 | Picturing the Global City: Literature and Visual Culture in the 21st Century | 30 | No |
| EAS3504 | Surrealism and its Legacies | 30 | No |
| AHV3002 | Understanding Space in Renaissance Italy | 15 | No |
| AHV3007 | Global Modernisms | 15 | No |
| AHV3009 | Paris to the World: Modelling the Modern City | 15 | No |
| AHV3012 | Installation Art | 15 | No |
| AHV3016 | Conceptual Art | 15 | No |
| AHV3017 | 'Queen City of Europe': Art, Culture and Society in Renaissance Antwerp, c.1500-70 | 15 | No |
6. Programme Outcomes Linked to Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods
Intended Learning Outcomes
A: Specialised Subject Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
1. Identify Art History & Visual Culture and Drama as broad subject disciplines | A1-7 are acquired through lectures, seminars, workshops, studio-based sessions, rehearsals, study groups, tutorials and other learning activities throughout the programme. The degree of specialization of subject knowledge increases during the programme, culminating in the dissertation modules. Option modules at stage 3 are most closely related to the research specialism of the staff teaching the module. The precise method of teaching varies according to each module. On team-taught modules you will normally engage in both lectures and seminar groups. In smaller options you will normally spend most of your contact time in seminar groups and workshops. Your learning is further developed through engagement with assessments, following guidance from tutors and lecturers and through feedback on work submitted. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations, performance and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, essays, exams, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation. Essays, exams and presentations are especially significant within the programme because they assess each of the skills, A1-7. The assessment criteria explicitly recognize the skills outlined. |
Intended Learning Outcomes
B: Academic Discipline Core Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
8. Apply critical skills in the close reading and analysis of performance and visual texts | These skills are developed throughout the programme in all modules. They are developed through lectures, seminars, studio-work, written work, and oral work (both in presentation and seminar discussion), and reinforced through the range of option modules across all three stages. They will culminate in the substantial and independent research skills demonstrated within the dissertation. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations, performances and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, essays, exams, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation |
Intended Learning Outcomes
C: Personal/Transferable/Employment Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
15. Apply advanced literacy and communication skills in appropriate contexts including the ability to present sustained and persuasive written and oral arguments | Personal and key skills are delivered through all modules, and developed in lectures, workshops, study groups, tutorials, work experience and other learning activities throughout the programme. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, essays, exams, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation. Outcomes C15-20 are also strongly developed in the course of the portfolio of assessed essays and other written work produced through Stages 1, 2, and 3. These assessments work on the principle of offering formative feedback to support the development of your written work within as well as between modules. Feedback on one assignment is intended to inform the next piece of work you undertake on the module; the next piece of work on the programme, or the future learning of graduates. Outcome C21 is associated especially with the range of group presentations taking place in modules during all three levels. Group presentation assessment brings into focus an important range of skills for students, including sharing workloads, responsibility for tasks, team-working, collaborative and communicative skills. Individual contributions to group work are also assessed individually, most often in the form of a reflective presentation report. C22-24 are also accomplished in the course of ‘real-time’ formal assessments such as presentations and end of module exams, which occur in all three levels of the programme. C25 is particularly related to the optional module ‘Humanities in the Workplace’, and to the range of work conducted in the field through Visual Culture and Drama options. |
7. Programme Regulations
Programme-specific Progression Rules
To progress to Stage 2 you must also achieve an average mark of at least 50% in Stage 1, otherwise you will be required to transfer to the relevant three-year programme. This is to ensure that only those students who are likely to succeed in their Employment Experience Year are selected.
HUM3998 Employment Experience counts as a single 120-credit module and is not condonable; you must pass this module to graduate with the degree title of BA Art History & Visual Culture and Drama with Employment Experience Abroad. If you fail the Employment Experience Abroad your degree title will be commuted to BA Art History & Visual Culture and Drama.
Classification
Full details of assessment regulations for all taught programmes can be found in the TQA Manual, specifically in the Credit and Qualifications Framework, and the Assessment, Progression and Awarding: Taught Programmes Handbook. Additional information, including Generic Marking Criteria, can be found in the Learning and Teaching Support Handbook.
8. College Support for Students and Students' Learning
All students within Art History & Visual Culture and Drama have a personal tutor for their entire programme of study and who is available at advertised ‘office hours’. There are induction sessions to orientate students at the start of their programme. A personal tutoring system will operate with regular communication throughout the programme. Academic support will be also be provided by module leaders. You can also make an appointment to see individual teaching staff.
The College complies with the Code of Practice on Study and Work Experience Abroad. The name of the member of staff acting as the programme’s co-ordinator for study abroad is made known to you before you leave Exeter, and this person is responsible for liaison and oversight of your progress during the year abroad. Contact will be maintained with you during your year abroad by regular email communication.
9. University Support for Students and Students' Learning
Please refer to the University Academic Policy and Standards guidelines regarding support for students and students' learning.
10. Admissions Criteria
Undergraduate applicants must satisfy the Undergraduate Admissions Policy of the University of Exeter.
Postgraduate applicants must satisfy the Postgraduate Admissions Policy of the University of Exeter.
Specific requirements required to enrol on this programme are available at the respective Undergraduate or Postgraduate Study Site webpages.
11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards
Each academic programme in the University is subject to an agreed College assessment and marking strategy, underpinned by institution-wide assessment procedures.
The security of assessment and academic standards is further supported through the appointment of External Examiners for each programme. External Examiners have access to draft papers, course work and examination scripts. They are required to attend the Board of Examiners and to provide an annual report. Annual External Examiner reports are monitored at both College and University level. Their responsibilities are described in the University's code of practice. See the University's TQA Manual for details.
14. Awarding Institution
University of Exeter
15. Lead College / Teaching Institution
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
16. Partner College / Institution
Partner College(s)
Not applicable to this programme
Partner Institution
Not applicable to this programme.
17. Programme Accredited / Validated by
0
18. Final Award
BA (Hons) Art History & Visual Culture and Drama with Employment Experience Abroad
19. UCAS Code
WW23
20. NQF Level of Final Award
6 (Honours)
21. Credit
| CATS credits | ECTS credits |
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22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group
[Honours] Dance, drama and performance
[Honours] History of art, architecture and design
23. Dates
| Origin Date | 27/07/2017 |
Date of last revision | 09/08/2022 |
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