Programme Specification for the 2023/4 academic year

BA (Hons) Art History & Visual Culture with Employment Experience

1. Programme Details

Programme name	BA (Hons) Art History & Visual Culture with Employment Experience	Programme code	UFA4HPSHPS58
Study mode(s)	Part Time Full 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 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 in the UK.

This Employment Experience variant of the programme is a great way to incorporate graduate-level work placement or placements undertaken in 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, you can also demonstrate adaptability and resourcefulness by organising suitable placements in areas of employment related to your interests and potential future career.

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.

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 and Visual Culture, through extended engagement with visual objects, primary texts and sources, relevant critical material, and both theoretical and historical contexts.
Give you a thorough grounding in the core principles of Art History and Visual Culture, through a programme which engages you imaginatively in the process of understanding and analysing complex visual objects, and which encourages you to acquire the critical tools necessary to reflect upon their production and reception. Art History and Visual Culture will involve you in learning with broad historical coverage, content, and methodology: throughout the programme, you will study a wide range of painting, sculpture, architecture illustration, film, video, performance and digital arts.
Provide you with a basis for career progression in the academic and professional worlds by equipping you with advanced competence in core academic, personal and key skills. 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 engagement with galleries, museums and the University’s own art and heritage collections.

The programme provides an intellectually stimulating, satisfying experience of learning and studying, and forms a sound basis for further study in Art History and Visual Culture 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 and Visual Culture, 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/

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. Optional modules offered are subject to change depending on staff availability and student demand.

You may take elective modules up to 30 credits outside of the programme in any stage of the programme 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

90 credits of compulsory modules, 30 credits of optional modules.

Compulsory Modules

Code	Module	Credits	Non-condonable?
AHV1006	Visual Media	15	No
AHV1008	Topics in Art History and Visual Culture I	15	No
AHV1011	Questions and Methods in Art History and Visual Culture	30	No
AHV1012	Approaches to Art History and Visual Culture	30	No
HAS1905	Employment Experience HASS	0	No

Optional Modules

Code	Module	Credits	Non-condonable?
AHV Stage 1 SH Option Modules 2023-4
AHV1005	Inside the Museum	15	No
AHV1009	Topics in Art History and Visual Culture II	15	No
MLF1121	French Visual History	15	No
MLM1010	China of the Senses: Approaching Chinese Culture and Environments	15	No

Stage 2

60 credits of compulsory modules, 60 credits of optional modules (including HUM2000 and HUM2001 Humanities in the Workplace).

Compulsory Modules

Code	Module	Credits	Non-condonable?
AHV2015	Art History and Visual Culture Field Study for Blended Learning	30	No
AHV2005	Art History and Visual Culture Field Study	30	No
AHV2007	Contemporary Visual Practices	15	No
HAS2905	Employment Experience HASS	0	No

Optional Modules

Code	Module	Credits	Non-condonable?
AHV Stage 2 SH Option Modules 2023-4
AHV2013	Photography and Evidence	15	No
AHV2016	Contemporary Art and Curation	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
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
MLM2003	Chinoiserie and Europeenerie: Artistic and cultural exchanges between China and Europe	15	No
AHV2023	Global Impressionisms	15	No
AHV2024	Renaissances North and South: Italy and the Netherlands	15	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?
HUM3998	Employment Experience UK	120	Yes

Stage 4

30 credits of compulsory Dissertation, 90 credits of optional modules.

Compulsory Modules

Code	Module	Credits	Non-condonable?
AHV3000	Art History and Visual Culture Dissertation	30	Yes

Optional Modules

Code	Module	Credits	Non-condonable?
AHV Final Stage SH Option Modules 2023-4
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 and Visual Culture as broad subject disciplines. 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the distinctive character of the descriptive terminology used in Art History and Visual Culture. 3. Show knowledge of the role of aesthetic and critical traditions in the shaping of art history and visual culture. 4. Demonstrate an understanding of artworks, images and representations, performances and installations and relate them to issues in the wider context of cultural and intellectual history. 5. Show knowledge of the dominant concepts, methods and debates informing the study of Art History and Visual Culture. 6. Demonstrate knowledge of the cultural and socio-historic contexts in which art works and other visual artefacts have been produced, presented and consumed. 7. Apply critical terminology and, where appropriate, linguistic, stylistic, and formal terminology to an understanding of both Art History and Visual Culture.	ILOs 1-7 are acquired through lectures, seminars, workshops, study groups, tutorials and other learning activities throughout the programme. The degree of specialisation of subject knowledge increases during the programme, culminating in the dissertation modules. Optional modules in the final stage 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. ILOs 2-7 are specifically introduced in Stage 1 compulsory modules.	The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, essays, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation. Essays and presentations are especially significant within the programme because they assess each of the skills, ILOs 1-7. The assessment criteria explicitly recognise the skills outlined.

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 and Visual Culture as broad subject disciplines.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the distinctive character of the descriptive terminology used in Art History and Visual Culture.
3. Show knowledge of the role of aesthetic and critical traditions in the shaping of art history and visual culture.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of artworks, images and representations, performances and installations and relate them to issues in the wider context of cultural and intellectual history.
5. Show knowledge of the dominant concepts, methods and debates informing the study of Art History and Visual Culture.
6. Demonstrate knowledge of the cultural and socio-historic contexts in which art works and other visual artefacts have been produced, presented and consumed.
7. Apply critical terminology and, where appropriate, linguistic, stylistic, and formal terminology to an understanding of both Art History and Visual Culture.

ILOs 1-7 are acquired through lectures, seminars, workshops, study groups, tutorials and other learning activities throughout the programme. The degree of specialisation of subject knowledge increases during the programme, culminating in the dissertation modules. Optional modules in the final stage 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.

ILOs 2-7 are specifically introduced in Stage 1 compulsory modules.

The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, essays, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation. Essays and presentations are especially significant within the programme because they assess each of the skills, ILOs 1-7. The assessment criteria explicitly recognise 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 description and analysis of visual artefacts. 9. Articulate knowledge and understanding of concepts and theories relating Art History and Visual Culture. 10. Demonstrate sensitivity to generic conventions and to the shaping effects upon communication of circumstances, authorship, production and intended audience. 11. Demonstrate responsiveness to the central role of language and visual media in the creation of meaning and a sensitivity to the affective power of language and visual media. 12. Communicate effectively and construct a coherent argument in both oral and written presentations. 13. Command a broad range of vocabulary and an appropriate critical terminology. 14. Apply bibliographic skills appropriate to the disciplines of Art History and Visual Culture, including accurate citation of sources and consistent use of conventions in the presentation of scholarly work.	These skills are developed throughout the programme in all modules. They are developed through lectures and seminars, written work, and oral work (both in presentation and seminar discussion), and reinforced through the range of option modules across all stages. They will culminate in the substantial and independent research skills demonstrated within the dissertation. ILOs 8 and 11, will be specifically introduced in Stage 2 compulsory modules. ILOs 9-10, 12-14 are specifically introduced in Stage 1 compulsory modules. These modules ensure that you have a firm grasp of the range of academic skills that are required of you during the programme.	The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, essays, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation.

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 description and analysis of visual artefacts.
9. Articulate knowledge and understanding of concepts and theories relating Art History and Visual Culture.
10. Demonstrate sensitivity to generic conventions and to the shaping effects upon communication of circumstances, authorship, production and intended audience.
11. Demonstrate responsiveness to the central role of language and visual media in the creation of meaning and a sensitivity to the affective power of language and visual media.
12. Communicate effectively and construct a coherent argument in both oral and written presentations.
13. Command a broad range of vocabulary and an appropriate critical terminology.
14. Apply bibliographic skills appropriate to the disciplines of Art History and Visual Culture, including accurate citation of sources and consistent use of conventions in the presentation of scholarly work.

These skills are developed throughout the programme in all modules. They are developed through lectures and seminars, written work, and oral work (both in presentation and seminar discussion), and reinforced through the range of option modules across all stages. They will culminate in the substantial and independent research skills demonstrated within the dissertation.

ILOs 8 and 11, will be specifically introduced in Stage 2 compulsory modules.

ILOs 9-10, 12-14 are specifically introduced in Stage 1 compulsory modules. These modules ensure that you have a firm grasp of the range of academic skills that are required of you during the programme.

The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, essays, 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. 16. Analyse and critically examine diverse forms of discourse, both textual and visual. 17. Acquire and interrelate substantial quantities of complex information of diverse kinds, in a structured and systematic way, and involving the use of the distinctive interpretative skills of the subject areas. 18. Apply research skills for the retrieval of historical material, and gather, sift and organise this material independently and critically, evaluating its significance. 19. Interrogate and apply a variety of theoretical positions, and weigh the importance of alternative perspectives in a critical and self-reflective manner. 20. Exercise independent thought and judgment. 21. Engage with others through the presentation of ideas and information in groups, and work towards the collective negotiation of solutions. 22. Plan and execute written and other forms of project-work. 23. Complete tasks under time-constrained conditions and effectively manage deadlines and targets. 24. Employ IT skills, and access and assess electronic data via the internet and through other forms of interactive media. 25. Adapt and transfer the critical methods of the discipline into unfamiliar contexts, including a variety of working environments.	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, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation. ILOs 15-20 are also strongly developed in the course of the portfolio of assessed essays and other written work produced through all Stages. 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. ILO 21 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. ILOs 22-24 are also accomplished in the course of ‘real-time’ formal assessments such as presentations, which occur through the programme. ILO 25 is particularly related to the optional module ‘Humanities in the Workplace’, and to the range of work conducted in the field through Art History and Visual Culture options.

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.
16. Analyse and critically examine diverse forms of discourse, both textual and visual.
17. Acquire and interrelate substantial quantities of complex information of diverse kinds, in a structured and systematic way, and involving the use of the distinctive interpretative skills of the subject areas.
18. Apply research skills for the retrieval of historical material, and gather, sift and organise this material independently and critically, evaluating its significance.
19. Interrogate and apply a variety of theoretical positions, and weigh the importance of alternative perspectives in a critical and self-reflective manner.
20. Exercise independent thought and judgment.
21. Engage with others through the presentation of ideas and information in groups, and work towards the collective negotiation of solutions.
22. Plan and execute written and other forms of project-work.
23. Complete tasks under time-constrained conditions and effectively manage deadlines and targets.
24. Employ IT skills, and access and assess electronic data via the internet and through other forms of interactive media.
25. Adapt and transfer the critical methods of the discipline into unfamiliar contexts, including a variety of working environments.

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, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation.

ILOs 15-20 are also strongly developed in the course of the portfolio of assessed essays and other written work produced through all Stages. 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.

ILO 21 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.

ILOs 22-24 are also accomplished in the course of ‘real-time’ formal assessments such as presentations, which occur through the programme.

ILO 25 is particularly related to the optional module ‘Humanities in the Workplace’, and to the range of work conducted in the field through Art History and Visual Culture 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 with Employment Experience. If you fail the Employment Experience your degree title will be commuted to BA Art History & Visual Culture.

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 have a personal tutor for your entire programme of study and who are available at advertised ‘office hours’. There are induction sessions to orientate you at the start of your 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.

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.

(Quality Review Framework.

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

18. Final Award

BA (Hons) Art History & Visual Culture with Employment Experience

19. UCAS Code

VW33

20. NQF Level of Final Award

6 (Honours)

21. Credit

CATS credits		ECTS credits

22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group

[Honours] History of art, architecture and design

23. Dates

Origin Date	26/07/2017	Date of last revision	29/10/2021

Programme Specification for the 2023/4 academic year

BA (Hons) Art History & Visual Culture with Employment Experience

1. Programme Details

2. Description of the Programme

3. Educational Aims of the Programme

4. Programme Structure

5. Programme Modules

Stage 1

Compulsory Modules

Optional Modules

Stage 2

Compulsory Modules

Optional Modules

Stage 3

Compulsory Modules

Stage 4

Compulsory Modules

Optional Modules

6. Programme Outcomes Linked to Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods

Intended Learning Outcomes A: Specialised Subject Skills and Knowledge

Intended Learning Outcomes B: Academic Discipline Core Skills and Knowledge

Intended Learning Outcomes C: Personal/Transferable/Employment Skills and Knowledge

7. Programme Regulations

8. College Support for Students and Students' Learning

9. University Support for Students and Students' Learning

10. Admissions Criteria

11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards

14. Awarding Institution

15. Lead College / Teaching Institution

16. Partner College / Institution

Partner College(s)

Partner Institution

17. Programme Accredited / Validated by

18. Final Award

19. UCAS Code

20. NQF Level of Final Award

21. Credit

22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group

23. Dates

Intended Learning Outcomes
A: Specialised Subject Skills and Knowledge

Intended Learning Outcomes
B: Academic Discipline Core Skills and Knowledge

Intended Learning Outcomes
C: Personal/Transferable/Employment Skills and Knowledge