Programme Specification for the 2024/5 academic year
BA (Hons) Art History & Visual Culture and History with Employment Experience
1. Programme Details
| Programme name | BA (Hons) Art History & Visual Culture and History with Employment Experience | Programme code | UFA4HPSHPS60 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Study mode(s) | Full Time Part Time |
Academic year | 2024/5 |
| Campus(es) | Streatham (Exeter) |
NQF Level of the Final Award | 6 (Honours) |
2. Description of the Programme
This programme will give you a thorough grounding in the main themes and methods of Art History & Visual Culture and History. It will be of particular interest if your background or interests are in the history of art, creative practice, cinema, cultural history, philosophy, sociology, literature or modern languages, and it draws upon interdisciplinary research in visuality across these areas. Art History & Visual Culture and History enables you to divide your time equally between two related subject areas.
The History side of the programme builds on a broad foundation in the first year, to highly specialised work in the final year, including the study of a particular subject in depth. There is a huge amount of module choice covering time periods from the Roman Empire to the 1960s and topics as diverse as the Vikings, early medieval empires, British politics since 1900, women in society, the Norman conquest, magic and witchcraft in early modern Europe and reformation London.
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.
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 & Visual Culture and History, through extended engagement with primary sources and methodologies, relevant critical material, and both theoretical and historical contexts. You will acquire a thorough grounding in the core principles of Art History and Visual Culture and History, through a programme which engages you imaginatively in the process of understanding and analysing complex sources and time periods, through study of both broad and detailed focus. Art History & Visual Culture and History will involve you in learning with broad historical coverage, content, and methodology: throughout the programme, you will study a wide range of art, film, literature, architecture, video, performance and digital arts, sculpture, architecture, and illustration, while also developing the skills necessary to analyse particular aspects of the past across a range of time periods and geographical areas.
You will also acquire advanced competence in core academic, personal and key skills, 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 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 & Visual Culture and History 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 History, 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.
This Employment Experience variant also offers you the opportunity to incorporate a placement into your degree programme.
4. Programme Structure
5. Programme Modules
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. Optional modules offered are subject to change depending on staff availability and student demand. 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 History.
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
30 credits of compulsory Art History & Visual Culture modules, 15 credits of compulsory History modules, 30 credits of optional Art History & Visual Culture modules, and 45 credits of optional History modules.
Compulsory 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? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIH1400 | Making History | 15 | Yes |
| AHV1011 | Questions and Methods in Art History and Visual Culture | 30 | No |
| HAS1905 | Employment Experience HASS | 0 | No |
Optional Modules
b select one module from the group of Understanding History modules.
c select 15 credits from this list of optional History modules.
| 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 |
| HIH1410 | Understanding the Medieval and Early-Modern World [See note b above] | 30 | No |
| HIH1420 | Understanding the Modern World [See note b above] | 30 | No |
| HISS S1 BA CH opt 2022-3 [See note c above] | |||
| HIH1014 | The Body in Eighteenth-Century Britain | 15 | No |
| HIH1043 | The Collapse of Communism in Central-Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union | 15 | No |
| HIH1138 | Medieval, Manufactured? Uses and Reuses of the Middle Ages | 15 | No |
| HIH1411 | From Wigan Pier to Piccadilly: Britain between the Wars | 15 | No |
| HIH1501 | The Viking Phenomenon | 15 | No |
| HIH1505 | The First Crusade | 15 | No |
| HIH1506 | The First Day of the Somme | 15 | No |
| HIH1586 | Early Modern Venice: Representations and Myths | 15 | No |
| HIH1597 | Serfdom in Late Medieval England | 15 | No |
| HIH1614 | Environment and Industry, 1750-1950: Global Perspectives | 15 | No |
| HIH1616 | Producing Poverty: Peasants in a Global Perspective, 700-1300CE | 15 | No |
| HIH1618 | Body, Border, Partition: Understanding Violence in South Asia | 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 History 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:
d select 30 credits from this list of Art History & Visual Culture modules (including HUM2000 and HUM2001 Humanities in the Workplace); we recommend selecting at least one module from AHV2002 and AHV2007.
e select 60 credits from the lists of optional History modules in Pathway A, B, C or D (including HUM2000 and HUM2001 Humanities in the Workplace; you must take HIH2001 Doing History: Perspectives on Sources if you intend to select HIH3005 History Dissertation in the final stage).
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHV Stage 2 CH Option Modules 2023-4 [See note d 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 |
| HISS S2 BA CH opt A 2023-4 [See note e above] | |||
| HIH2014A | Decolonisation and the Collapse of the British Empire, 1919-1968 | 30 | No |
| HIH2032A | Europe 1650-1800: From Enlightenment to Romanticism | 30 | No |
| HIH2218A | Religion, Society and Culture in Tudor England | 30 | No |
| HIH2592 | Science, Empire, and Natural History Museums: A Global Perspective | 30 | No |
| HIH2019A | Science, Technology and Medicine in the Cold War | 30 | No |
| HIH2011A | Forgetting Fascism, Remembering Communism: Memory in Modern Europe | 30 | No |
| HIH2111 | Mediterranean Maritime Supremacy, 1500-1700 | 30 | No |
| HIH2179A | The American Empire | 30 | No |
| HIH2184A | From Conquest to Communism: Central Asia under the Russian and Soviet Empires, 1730-1945 | 30 | No |
| HIH2208A | Medieval Paris | 30 | No |
| HIH2210A | The Russian Empire, 1689-1917 | 30 | No |
| HIH2185A | China in the World, 1500-1840 | 30 | No |
| ARA2170 | A History of the Modern Middle East, 1900-2014 | 15 | No |
| ARA2171 | A History of the Modern Middle East, 1900-2014 | 30 | No |
| ARA2001 | From Holy Text to Sex Manuals in the Medieval Middle East | 15 | No |
| ARA2135 | Conflict and Peacemaking Palestine/Israel | 15 | No |
| SML2209 | Music in Medieval Europe | 15 | No |
| THE2224 | Modern Jewish History and Thought | 30 | No |
| HIH2037 | American Frontiers: The West in U.S. History and Mythology | 30 | No |
| HIH2137A | Inventing Modern Man: Constructions of Mind, Body, and the Individual, 1400-1800 | 30 | No |
| HIH2138A | History of Development: Ideologies, Politics, and Projects | 30 | No |
| HIH2145A | Spain from Absolutism to Democracy | 30 | No |
| HIH2036A | Albion's Fatal Tree: Capital Punishment in England, 1688-1965 | 30 | No |
| HIH2186A | Deviants and Dissenters in Early Modern England | 30 | No |
| HIH2209A | African American History | 30 | No |
| HIH2590 | An Age of Iron? Europe in the Tenth Century | 30 | No |
| HIH2041 | The First Welfare State? England's Poor Law, 1520-1835 | 30 | No |
| ARA2147 | Classical Islamic History | 15 | No |
| ARA2016 | Magic and the Abrahamic Religions | 15 | No |
| ARA2161 | The Historiography of the Arab-Israeli Conflict | 15 | No |
| HISS S2 BA CH opt B 2023-4 [See note e above] | |||
| HIH2037 | American Frontiers: The West in U.S. History and Mythology | 30 | No |
| HIH2137A | Inventing Modern Man: Constructions of Mind, Body, and the Individual, 1400-1800 | 30 | No |
| HIH2138A | History of Development: Ideologies, Politics, and Projects | 30 | No |
| HIH2145A | Spain from Absolutism to Democracy | 30 | No |
| HIH2036A | Albion's Fatal Tree: Capital Punishment in England, 1688-1965 | 30 | No |
| HIH2186A | Deviants and Dissenters in Early Modern England | 30 | No |
| HIH2209A | African American History | 30 | No |
| HIH2590 | An Age of Iron? Europe in the Tenth Century | 30 | No |
| HIH2041 | The First Welfare State? England's Poor Law, 1520-1835 | 30 | No |
| ARA2147 | Classical Islamic History | 15 | No |
| ARA2161 | The Historiography of the Arab-Israeli Conflict | 15 | No |
| ARA2016 | Magic and the Abrahamic Religions | 15 | No |
| HISS S2 BA CH opt C 2023-4 [See note e above] | |||
| HIH2014A | Decolonisation and the Collapse of the British Empire, 1919-1968 | 30 | No |
| HIH2032A | Europe 1650-1800: From Enlightenment to Romanticism | 30 | No |
| HIH2218A | Religion, Society and Culture in Tudor England | 30 | No |
| HIH2592 | Science, Empire, and Natural History Museums: A Global Perspective | 30 | No |
| HIH2011A | Forgetting Fascism, Remembering Communism: Memory in Modern Europe | 30 | No |
| HIH2019A | Science, Technology and Medicine in the Cold War | 30 | No |
| HIH2111 | Mediterranean Maritime Supremacy, 1500-1700 | 30 | No |
| HIH2179A | The American Empire | 30 | No |
| HIH2184A | From Conquest to Communism: Central Asia under the Russian and Soviet Empires, 1730-1945 | 30 | No |
| HIH2185A | China in the World, 1500-1840 | 30 | No |
| HIH2208A | Medieval Paris | 30 | No |
| HIH2210A | The Russian Empire, 1689-1917 | 30 | No |
| ARA2171 | A History of the Modern Middle East, 1900-2014 | 30 | No |
| ARA2170 | A History of the Modern Middle East, 1900-2014 | 15 | No |
| ARA2001 | From Holy Text to Sex Manuals in the Medieval Middle East | 15 | No |
| SML2209 | Music in Medieval Europe | 15 | No |
| THE2224 | Modern Jewish History and Thought | 30 | No |
| ARA2135 | Conflict and Peacemaking Palestine/Israel | 15 | No |
| HISS S2 BA CH opt D 2023-4 [See note e above] | |||
| HIH2001 | Doing History: Perspectives on Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH2002 | Uses of the Past | 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? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUM3998 | Employment Experience UK | 120 | Yes |
Stage 4
0-30 credits of compulsory Art History & Visual Culture modules, 0-30 credits of compulsory History modules, 30-60 credits of optional Art History & Visual Culture modules, and 30-60 credits of optional History modules.
Compulsory Modules
Subject to choosing 120 credits for the stage overall, you must:
f select a Dissertation in either Art History and Visual Culture or History: AHV3000 or HIH3005 (you cannot choose more than one module from this group). To select HIH3005 History Dissertation, you must have taken HIH2001 Doing History: Perspectives on Sources at stage 2.
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHV3000 | Art History and Visual Culture Dissertation [See note f above] | 30 | No |
| HIH3005 | General Third-Year Dissertation [See note f above] | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
g if selecting HIH3005, select 60 credits from this list of optional Art History & Visual Culture modules.
h if selecting AHV3000, select a 60 credit History Special Subject.
i if selecting HIH3005, select 30 credits from this list of optional Comparative History modules in Pathway B.
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHV Final Stage CH Option Modules 2023-4 [See note g 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 |
| History UG Final Year Special Subjects 2024-5 [See note h above] | |||
| HIH3415 | Everyday Stalinism: Life in the Soviet Union, 1928-53 | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3416 | Critics of Empire | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3417 | The Yes, Minister Files: Perspectives on British Government since 1914 | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3422 | Street Protest and Social Movements in the Modern Era | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3426 | Health and its Politics in the 20th Century | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3430 | From the Grand Tour to Gladiator: Modern encounters with the ancient world | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3433 | Beyond Cannibalism: Indigenous Peoples and the European Colonisation of Brazil, 1500-1822 | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3434 | The Body in Early Modern England | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3436 | Engendering Empire: Making the British Imperial World | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3437 | Death to the Traitors: Rebellion and Resisting Tyranny in the Middle Ages | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3438 | The Rise of Capitalism in Britain 1660-1830 | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3439 | Women's Experience in Britain: Race, Class and Gender since 1945 | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3441 | Britons Abroad: The Experience of Travel, c. 1650-1900 | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3442 | From Its Cradle to Its Grave? The National Health Service in Britain, 1948-Present | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3444 | Them and Us: Imagining the Social "Other" in Britain since the 1880s | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3448 | Britain in an Age of Revolution: War, Society and Culture, 1789-1815 | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3450 | Decolonisation and Colonial Conflict | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3451 | Borders and Mobilities in Postcolonial South Asia | 60 | Yes |
| HIH3452 | Whiteness: A Global History | 60 | Yes |
| HISS SF BA Comparative modules 2022-3 [See note i above] | |||
| HIH3618 | Power Elites: Ruling Groups across Space and Time | 30 | No |
| HIH3617 | News, Media and Communication | 30 | No |
| HIH3619 | Sexualities | 30 | No |
| HIH3626 | Heroes: Conceptions, Constructions and Representations | 30 | No |
| HIH3628 | Civil Wars | 30 | No |
| HIH3632 | Violence | 30 | No |
| HIH3633 | Revolutions | 30 | No |
| HIH3634 | Race, Resistance, and Decolonisation | 30 | No |
| HUM HUM3000s | |||
| HUM3002 | Aliens Abroad: Science Fiction in Global Literature | 15 | No |
| HUM3015 | The Place of Meaning: Gardens in Britain and China | 15 | No |
| HUM3016 | Book Publishing: Principles of Book Commissioning, Editing and Design | 30 | No |
| HUM3003A | Hacking the Humanities: How to Plan and Run Successful Digital Projects | 15 | No |
| HUM3003 | Hacking the Humanities: How to Plan and Run Successful Digital Projects | 30 | No |
| HUM3004 | Transforming the Tablet: Digital Approaches to Ancient Text and Artefact | 15 | No |
| HISS SF BA Co-listed 2023-4 | |||
| MLG3036 | Dictatorships on Display: History Exhibitions in Germany and Austria | 15 | No |
| SML3014 | Socialist Thought and Practice in Latin America and Africa | 15 | No |
| MLR3027 | The Making of Underground Russia, 1825-1917 | 15 | No |
| THE3224 | Modern Jewish History and Thought | 30 | No |
| ARA3047 | Oral History: Principles and Practice | 15 | No |
| ARA3048 | Oral History: Principles and Practice | 30 | No |
| ARA3136 | The History and Political Development of Iraq | 15 | No |
| ARA3140 | The Kurds: History and Politics | 15 | No |
| ARA3162 | Britain in the Middle East, 1798-1977 | 15 | No |
| ARA3197 | The Arabian Nights: Perception and Reception | 15 | No |
| ARA2161 | The Historiography of the Arab-Israeli Conflict | 15 | No |
| ARAM251 | Esotericism and the Magical Tradition | 30 | No |
| ARC2123 | Sustainability and Collapse in Past Societies | 15 | No |
| ARC3123 | Sustainability and Collapse in Past Societies | 15 | No |
| ARC2401 | Understanding the Landscape of Medieval Britain | 15 | No |
| ARC3401 | Understanding the Landscape of Medieval Britain | 15 | No |
| ARC2406 | Medieval Castles in Context | 15 | No |
| ARC3406 | Medieval Castles in Context | 15 | No |
| ARC2120 | Things and Us: Ancient and Contemporary Material Culture | 15 | No |
| ARC3120 | Things and Us: Ancient and Contemporary Material Culture | 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 History as broad subject disciplines. | 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 at 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 1-3 are specifically introduced in the ‘History Foundation’ module, ‘Understanding the Medieval and Early Modern World’, and ‘Understanding the Modern World’, and are reinforced through the programme. ILOs 2-3, 5 and 7 are specifically introduced in the Stage 1 modules ‘Introduction to the History of Art’, ‘Introducing Visual Culture’ and ‘Making History’ and reinforced in the range of option modules available at second and final stages. ILOs 4 and 6 are specifically introduced in the Stage 1 modules ‘Inside the Art Museum’ and ‘Visual Media’ and similarly reinforced through option modules available at second and final stages. | 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 historical sources and visual artefacts. | 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 and (in History) the special subject modules. ILOs 8 and 11, will be specifically introduced in the core module ‘Debates and Contestations in Art History’ and ‘Contemporary Visual Practices’. ILOs 9-10 and 12-14 are specifically introduced in the core modules, ‘Introduction to the History of Art’, ‘Introducing Visual Culture’ and ‘Making History. 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: | |
12. Organise and undertake suitable employment placements and critically reflect upon the experience. | 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 stages. Group presentation assessment brings into focus an important range of skills for you, 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 & Visual Culture and History 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 Year Abroad 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 History with Employment Experience. If you fail the Employment Experience your degree title will be commuted to BA Art History & Visual Culture and History.
Classification
8. College Support for Students and Students' Learning
All students within Art History & Visual Culture and History 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.
9. University Support for Students and Students' Learning
10. Admissions Criteria
11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards
12. Indicators of Quality and Standards
The programme is not subject to accreditation and/ or review by professional and statutory regulatory bodies (PSRBs).
13. Methods for Evaluating and Improving Quality and Standards
14. Awarding Institution
University of Exeter
15. Lead College / Teaching Institution
College of Humanities (CHUM)
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 History with Employment Experience
19. UCAS Code
VV33
20. NQF Level of Final Award
6 (Honours)
21. Credit
| CATS credits | ECTS credits |
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22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group
[Honours] History
[Honours] History of art, architecture and design
23. Dates
| Origin Date | 26/07/2017 |
Date of last revision | 28/10/2021 |
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