Art History and Visual Culture and Film and Television Studies

Overview

Explore the media, techniques and historical contexts relevant to the production of artistic works, the terminology used to describe and evaluate them, and the institutions that present them to the public Study modules designed to provide you with a sense of the range and variety of artistic and visual works and engage critically with these works in their historical and theoretical contexts

Art, history and culture embedded on campus with the Exeter Northcott Theatre, The Bill Douglas Cinema Musuem, Lemon Grove and Great Hall as music venues and student theatre at Roborough Studios.

Your future

Studying Art History and Visual Culture and Film and Television Studies programme at The University of Exeter  equips students with a broad range of highly desirable transferable skills in analysis, critique, research and theoretical and practical creativity. These will prepare you to enter a wide variety of professions. You will also develop specialist knowledge of everything from traditional art forms such as architecture and sculpture, to today’s visual practices such as film, video, performance and digital art. 

You will benefit from productive engagement with collections, institutions and art groups in the area, in tandem with the wider arts community in the South West and beyond.

The Art History & Visual Culture programme prepares its graduates to undertake postgraduate study or training in areas such as education, arts management and journalism, amongst others. Recent graduates have gone on to study:

• MA Publishing

• MA Multimedia Broadcast Journalism

• MA Creative Advertising

• CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst)

• MA Fine and Decorative Arts

• MA Marketing & International Management

• Graduate Diploma in Law

• MA Stage and Event Management