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Description

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 in their respective areas.

VPA enables you to combine the study of 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 Art History, History & Philosophy of Art, Film and Drama and Theatre. 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 you can also take some practice-based modules offered by History & Philosophy of Art, Film and Drama and Theatre.

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. We also offer a year in industry programme for those seeking to gain work experience during their degree.

Independent rankings

In the National Student Survey 2013 93% of arts students were satisfied with the quality of their course. And, Art and Design 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)

• 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:

• DR315 - Modern Theatre: A Theoretical Landscape
• FI313 - Film Form
• HA315 - The Shock of the Now: Themes in Contemporary Art

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Stage 2

Possible modules may include:

• HA507 - Reading the Image
• HA573 - Print Collecting and Curating
• HA580 - Camera, Light and Darkroom: Intro to Black & White Photography
• HA653 - Exposed: The Aesthetics of The Body, Sexuality and Erotic Art
• HA660 - Dialogues; Art History in a Global Context
• HA669 - Study of a Single Artist
• CL609 - Roman Art and Architecture
• HA595 - Visual Arts Writing
• HA681 - Pixelated World: The Digital Revolution
• HA683 - Against Realism: Varieties of Photographic Pictorialism
• HA684 - Genius: Perspectives on Artistic Creation
• HA686 - Thinking about the Arts
• HA688 - Painting in Central Italy 1440 - 1520
• HI5041 - Gothic Art: Image and Imagination in Europe, c.1140-1500
• HI789 - The Art of Death
• FI621 - Television Series: Narration, Engagement and Evaluation
• FI594 - Film Authorship
• FI595 - Film Genre (Horror)
• FI597 - Animated Worlds
• FI598 - Cognition and Emotion
• FI599 - The Gothic in Film
• FI600 - Film Criticism
• FI602 - Documentary Film
• FI606 - Avant-Garde and Experimental Cinema
• FI607 - Storytelling and the Cinema
• FI611 - New York & The Movies
• DR681 - Theatres of the Past 2: The Moderns
• DR682 - Theatre and Music
• FI619 - Images of War and Violence
• DR549 - Acting
• DR575 - Victorian and Edwardian Theatre
• DR612 - Shakespeare's Theatre
• DR594 - Popular Performance
• DR609 - European Naturalist Theatre & Its Legacy
• DR663 - Physical Theatre 1
• FI537 - Postwar European Cinema
• FI565 - History of British Cinema
• DR667 - Site Specific Performance
• DR669 - European Theatre from 1945
• DR671 - Puppet and Object Theatre
• DR673 - Theatres of the Past 1: the Classics
• DR674 - Performance and Art: Intermediality from Wagner to the Virtuals

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Stage 3

Possible modules may include:

• CL609 - Roman Art and Architecture
• ART500 - Independent Project
• HA507 - Reading the Image
• HA580 - Camera, Light and Darkroom: Intro to Black & White Photography
• HA573 - Print Collecting and Curating
• HA579 - Visual Arts Internship
• HA670 - Study of a Single Artist
• HA587 - Against Realism: Varieties of Photograhic Pictorialism
• HA591 - Dialogues: Art History in a Global Context
• HI789 - The Art of Death
• HI5041 - Gothic Art: Image and Imagination in Europe, c.1140-1500
• HA689 - Painting in Central Italy 1440 - 1520
• HA687 - Thinking about the Arts
• HA685 - Genius: Perspectives on Artistic Creation
• HA682 - Pixelated World: The Digital Revolution
• HA595 - Visual Arts Writing
• HA649 - Exposed: The Aesthetics of the Body, Sexuality and Erotic Art
• FI622 - Television Series: Narration, Engagement and Evaluation
• FI620 - Images of War and Violence
• DR683 - Performing Philosophy
• FI615 - Film Genre (Horror)
• FI616 - Postwar European Cinema
• FI617 - History of British Cinema
• FI608 - Film Authorship
• DR592 - New Directions
• DR548 - Theatre & Journalism
• DR664 - Physical Theatre II
• DR610 - Performing Lives: Theory & Practice of Autobiographical Theatre
• DR619 - Playwriting I: For Beginners
• DR629 - Cultural Policies in the British Theatre
• DR635 - Dance & Discourse: Dramaturgies of Moving Bodies
• DR636 - The Shakespeare Effect
• DR648 - Applied Theatre
• DR659 - Performing Classical Texts
• DR676 - Introduction to Stand Up
• DR678 - Creative Project
• DR680 - Theatre & Adaptation
• FI573 - Animated Worlds
• FI577 - Cognition and Emotion
• FI582 - New York and the Movies
• FI584 - The Gothic in Film
• FI585 - Film Criticism
• FI501 - The Documentary Film
• FI506 - Avant Garde and Experimental Cinema
• FI527 - Storytelling and the Cinema

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6 CAE score : 75(Grade B) TOEFL paper-based test score : 580 TOEFL iBT® test : 85

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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.

Typical offer/minimum requirement

A level: BBB

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 17 points at HL

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Kent.