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Description

This joint honours programme combines a study of the history of the visual arts with an exploration of ideas and motivation behind the creation of art in an attempt to understand meaning, significance and value.

Any study of History draws upon a similar thirst for understanding. Drawing upon a wide range of (often visual) sources undergraduate students strive to understand the significance of past events, the meaning and value attributed to them by historians and how they affect our present.

Both subjects follow a modular structure allowing students to tailor their studies to their own interests.

Independent rankings

History at Kent was ranked 1st for research in The Complete University Guide 2014. And, in the National Student Survey 2013 History was ranked 10th for student satisfaction.

In the National Student Survey 2013, 88% of Philosophy students were satisfied with the quality of their course. And Philosophy was ranked 12th for graduate employment in The Complete University Guide 2014.

In the National Student Survey 2013 93% of arts students were satisfied with the quality of their course. And, Art at Kent was ranked 6th overall and 6th for graduate prospects in The Guardian University Guide 2014.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 12450 Year (Non-EEA)

Total Kent credits: 360

Total Kent credits: 360

• English

Course Content

The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules, you may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Stage 1

Possible modules may include:

HA315 - The Shock of the Now: Themes in Contemporary Art
HA355 - Introduction to the History of Art
HI426 - Making History: Theory and Practice
HI430 - Modern British History (Part Two)
HI431 - The English Renaissance: Society, Politics and Culture 1400-1600
HI433 - Early Modern History: The Age of Enlightenment c. 1600-1750
HI436 - A Global History of Empires: 1850-1960
HI353 - Britain and the Second World War: The Home Front
HI359 - Empire and Africa
HI366 - Britain in the Age of Industrialisation 1700-1830
HI385 - Introduction to the History of Medicine
HI391 - The Rise of the United States Since 1880
HI397 - Cinema and Society, 1930 - 1960
HI411 - Later Medieval Europe
HI419 - England in the Age of Chivalry: c1200-1400
HI425 - Revolutionary Europe 1700-1850

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Stage 2

Possible modules may include:

HA511 - Patronage & Cultural Organisation in 20th Century Britain
HA594 - Photography and Intuition
HA597 - The Sublime, the Disgusting and the Laughable
HA598 - High Art and Low Life
HA573 - Print Collecting and Curating
HA580 - Camera, Light and Darkroom: Intro to Black & White Photography
HA586 - Photographic History & Aesthetics 1: Realism in Theory and Practice
HA653 - Exposed: The Aesthetics of The Body, Sexuality and Erotic Art
HA502 - Art & Architecture of the Renaissance
HA505 - French Painting in the 19th Century
HA507 - Reading the Image
HA554 - Contemporary Art:From Warhol to Whiteread: Postmodernity & Visual Art Pr
HA559 - Abstraction And Construction in 20th Century Art
CL608 - Greek Art and Architecture
CL623 - Minoan Art and Architecture
CL609 - Roman Art and Architecture
HI614 - Britain and the American Revolution 1750-1800
HI783 - Anglo-Saxon England
HI789 - The Art of Death
HI795 - Inviting Doomsday: US Environmental
HI5013 - Popular Religion and Heresy, 1100-1300
HI5002 - Divided Land, Divided History: Ireland C1885-2005
HI5023 - The American Civil War Era 1848-1877
CL665 - Constantinople and the Late Antique City
CL670 - Egypt and the Classical World
CL674 - Everyday Life in the Roman Empire
CL589 - The Rise and Fall of Athens
CL570 - Archaic Greece and Persia
CL582 - Rome: The Imperial Republic
CL583 - The Crisis of the Roman Republic
CL643 - King & Court of Achaemenid Persia
CL663 - Greek and Roman Medicine
HI5035 - History of Modern Medicine and Medical Ethics,1800-2000
HI5031 - African History since 1800
HI5055 - Russia: 1855-1945 Reform, Revolution and War
HI5067 - War and Modern Medicine 1850-1950
HI5065 - British History c. 1480-1620
HI5073 - American Freedoms: The Bill of Rights and the Battles that Shaped it: 1
HI5075 - Marvels, Monsters and Freaks 1780-1920
HI5087 - An Island People? Britons, Navy and the Sea, 1750-1950
HI5090 - Military Revolutions: war and the making of the early modern world
HI5092 - Armies at War 1914-1918
HI5094 - Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies: The British and French Experienc
HI5096 - Modern German History, 1918-1990
HI611 - France in the Age of Absolutism 1515-1715
HI632 - The Tools of Empire 1760-1920
HI6009 - Europe and the Islamic World, c 1450-1750
HI6015 - The English Reformation and the Invention of the Middle Ages
HI566 - History Dissertation
HI742 - The Cold War, 1941-1991
HI744 - Pre-Industrial England, 1550-1720
HI749 - Society and Culture in Early Modern Europe
HI761 - The Cultural History Of The Great War: Britain, France and Germany In C
HI763 - How the West was Won (or lost): The American West in the Nineteenth Cen
HI765 - From Buffalo Bill to Bison Burgers: The American West in the 20th Centu
HI767 - Churchill's Army: the British Army in the Second World War
HI769 - From Blitzkrieg to Baghdad: Armoured Warfare in Theory, Practise and Im
HI775 - Literature and Science in the Twentieth Century: Remaking the Body

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Stage 3

Possible modules may include:

CL609 - Roman Art and Architecture
CL608 - Greek Art and Architecture
HA559 - Abstraction And Construction in 20th Century Art
HA554 - Contemporary Art:From Warhol to Whiteread: Postmodernity & Visual Art Pr
HA507 - Reading the Image
HA505 - French Painting in the 19th Century
HA502 - Art & Architecture of the Renaissance
HA586 - Photographic History & Aesthetics 1: Realism in Theory and Practice
HA580 - Camera, Light and Darkroom: Intro to Black & White Photography
HA573 - Print Collecting and Curating
HA579 - Visual Arts Internship
HA598 - High Art and Low Life
HA649 - Exposed: The Aesthetics of the Body, Sexuality and Erotic Art
HA597 - The Sublime, the Disgusting and the Laughable
HA594 - Photography and Intuition
CL653 - Minoan Art and Architecture
HA511 - Patronage & Cultural Organisation in 20th Century Britain
HA589 - Independent Dissertation in the History and Philosophy of Art
HI776 - Literature and Science in the Twentieth Century: Remaking the Body
HI779 - T-The Legacy of the Second World War: Retribution, Reconstruction and R
HI780 - G-The Legacy of the Second World War: Retribution, Reconstruction and R
HI770 - From Blitzkrieg to Baghdad: Armoured Warfare in Theory, Practise and Im
HI768 - Churchill's Army: the British Army in the Second World War
HI766 - From Buffalo Bill to Bison Burgers: The American West in the 20th Centu
HI764 - How the West Was Won (or Lost): The American West in the Nineteenth Cen
HI762 - The Cultural History Of The Great War: Britain, France And Germany In C
HI751 - Society and Culture in Early Modern Europe
HI747 - The Cold War, 1941 - 1991
HI6003 - Kingdoms of the Savannah: A
HI605 - Independent Documentary Study in History
HI610 - France in the Age of Absolutism 1515-1715
HI652 - T:The Great War, British Memory, History and Culture
HI653 - G:The Great War,British Memory,History and Culture
HI685 - Pre-Industrial England 1550-1720
HI699 - T: Troubled Superpower: The Soviet Union, 1941-1991
HI700 - G: Troubled Superpower: The Soviet Union 1941-1991
HI712 - Anglo-Saxon England
HI719 - Britain and the American Revolution, 1750-1800
HI725 - The Tools of Empire
HI5097 - Modern German History, 1918-1990
HI540 - T-The Elizabethan Court and Realm, 1558-1603
HI541 - G-The Elizabethan Court and Realm, 1558-1603
HI5095 - Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies: The British and French

Experienc

HI5093 - Armies at War 1914-1918
HI5091 - Military Revolutions: war and the making of the early modern world
HI5088 - An Island People? Britons, Navy and the Sea, 1750-1950
HI5076 - Marvels, Monsters and Freaks 1780-1920
HI5079 - The Wars of the Roses
HI5080 - The Wars of the Roses
HI5086 - Kingdoms of the Savannah: B
HI5074 - American Freedoms: The Bill of Rights and theBattles that Shaped it: 17
HI5066 - British History c. 1480-1620
HI5068 - War and Modern Medicine 1850-1950
HI5069 - The Rights Revolution: Civil Rights Movements & the Law in the US since
HI5070 - The Rights Revolution: Civil Rights Movements
HI5072 - The American Revolution
HI5056 - Russia: 1855-1945 Reform, Revolution and War
HI5032 - African History since 1800
HI5036 - History of Modern Medicine and Medical Ethics, 1800-2000
HI5037 - T:Britain and the French Revolution, c.1785-c.1804
HI5038 - G:Britain and the French Revolution, c.1785-c.1804
HI5049 - 'T: California: the Golden State'
HI5050 - 'G: California: the Golden State'
CL633 - King & Court of Achaemenid Persia
CL639 - Constantinople and the late Antique City
CL664 - Archaic Greece and Persia
CL585 - Egypt and the Classical World
CL607 - Greek and Roman Medicine
CL675 - Everyday Life in the Roman Empire
CL671 - The Rise and Fall of Athens
HI5024 - The American Civil War Era 1848-1877
HI5003 - Divided Land, Divided History: Ireland c1885-2005
HI5014 - Popular Religion and Heresy, 1100-1300
HI5017 - T: The Ocean Liner (1840-1914)
HI5018 - G: The Ocean Liner (1840-1914)
HI5019 - T: The Monster in Medieval Culture
HI5020 - G: The Monster in Medieval Culture
HI796 - Inviting Doomsday: US Environmental
HI790 - The Art of Death

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6.5

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Requirements

The University will consider applications from students offering a wide range of qualifications, typical requirements are listed below, students offering alternative qualifications should contact the Admissions Office for further advice. It is not possible to offer places to all students who meet this typical offer/minimum requirement.

Qualification, Typical offer/minimum requirement

• A level: ABB including A level History grade B excluding General Studies and Critical Thinking

• Access to HE Diploma: The University of Kent will not necessarily make conditional offers to all access candidates but will continue to assess them on an individual basis. If an offer is made candidates will be required to obtain/pass the overall Access to Higher Education Diploma and may also be required to obtain a proportion of the total level 3 credits and/or credits in particular subjects at merit grade or above.

• BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma (formerly BTEC National Diploma): The university will consider applicants holding BTEC National Diploma and Extended National Diploma Qualifications (QCF; NQF;OCR) on a case by case basis please contact us via the enquiries tab for further advice on your individual circumstances.

• International Baccalaureate: 34 points overall or 16 points at HL including History 5 at HL or 6 at SL

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

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• Access Bursary

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• Alumni Bursary

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Funding

Kent offers generous financial support schemes to support eligible undergraduate students during their studies. Our 2015 entry support package has not been finalised. However, our 2014 financial support package included a £6,500 cash bursary. Find out more on our funding page.

General scholarships

Scholarships are available for excellence in academic performance, sport and music and are awarded on merit. For further information on the range of awards available and to make an application see our scholarships website.

The Kent Scholarship for Academic Excellence

At Kent we recognise, encourage and reward excellence. We have created the Kent Scholarship for Academic Excellence, which will be awarded to any applicant who achieves a minimum of AAA over three A levels, or the equivalent qualifications as specified on our funding pages. Please note that details of the scholarship for 2015 entry have not yet been finalised and are subject to change.