BA Art History & Visual Culture and Drama

Programme structure

The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

The BA Art History & Visual Culture and Drama degree programme is made up of compulsory (core) and optional modules, which are usually worth 15 or 30 credits each. Full-time undergraduate students need to complete modules worth a total of 120 credits each year: 60 credits from Drama and 60 credits from Art History & Visual Culture.

Depending on your programme, you can take up to 30 credits per year in another subject, for instance a language or business module, to develop career-related skills or just widen your intellectual horizons. For this programme, level 1 modules are compulsory.

Current students - please note that modules lists for module choice are on the Student Intranet.

Year 1

The first year comprises of two core modules from Drama, and two compulsory and an optional module from Art History and Visual Culture. Modules at this stage will offer a solid grounding in both subject areas, providing critical tools and knowledge which will be built on in the following years.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits DRA1004Acting and Not Acting: The Dialectics of Performance 30 DRA1007Theatrical Interpretation: Practitioners30 AHV1001Introducing Visual Culture 30 AHV1006Visual Media15 Optional modules CodeModuleCredits AHV1005Inside the Museum15 ARC1003ADiscovering Historic Archaeology 15 ARC1050Objects: Contexts and Displays15 CLA1354Ancient Sources (Material Evidence): Brave New Rome of Augustus15 EAS1034Film Studies: An Introduction15 MLF1121French Visual History15 Year 2

In your second year you will build from the learning and skills developed in your first year through a range of option choices. In Drama you will take a core module, which will extend and deepen your critical and theoretical vocabulary of theatre.

You will also take one core module in Art History and Visual Culture, that will introduce you to current issues in visual culture and the links between past and contemporary works, and critical perspectives.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits AHV2005Art History and Visual Culture Field Study30 AHV2007Contemporary Visual Practices15 DRA2064Performance and Interpretation30 Optional modules

Select 30 credits from Drama Level 2 optional modules.

Please note, students must take DRA2067 Staging the Text if they plan to take a Theatre Practise option at Level 3.

Select 15 credits from Art History and Visual Culture Level 2 optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits Drama DRA2046Music as Performance30 DRA2067Staging the Text30 DRA2071Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre and Performance30 DRA2072Culture in / as Performance30 DRA2073Social Practice in Art and Performance30 DRA2084Women and Theatre, 1700-192830 Art History and Visual Culture AHV2002Debates and Contestations in Art History15 AHV2004Theories and Histories of Photography15 AHV2208Ideal Cities? Urban Cultures of Renaissance Italy15 ARC2118Lords to Lepers: Medieval Social Worlds15 ARC2119Art of the Metal Smith: Cultural Archaeologies of Technical Achievement15 ARC2601Perspectives in Archaeology15 CLA2354Ancient Sources (Material Evidence): Brave New Rome of Augustus15 MLF2066Intimate Spaces of the French Enlightenment15 MLM2011Encounters and Entanglements: Chinese Art in Global Perspective15 Plus optional modules as relevant from across HUMS disciplines. College-wide Humanities HUM2000Humanities in the Workplace30 Year 3

In the final year you will choose between one of two core dissertation modules. If the dissertation is studied in Visual Culture, 60 credits must be chosen from optional Drama modules; if the dissertation is studied in Drama, 60 credits should be chosen from optional Visual Culture modules.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits Choose either DRA3062 or AHV3000 DRA3062Theatre Praxis30 AHV3000Dissertation30 Optional modules

For students taking AHV3000, select 60 credits of Drama Level 3 optional modules and 30 credits from Art History and Visual Culture.

For students taking DRA3062, select 60 credits of Art History and Visual Culture Level 3 optional modules and 30 credits from Drama.

CodeModuleCredits Drama Theatre Practice DRA3009Theatre Practice II: Directing30 DRA3012Theatre Practise I: Applied Drama30 DRA3030Interpretative Acting II30 DRA3077Voice for the Actor30 DRA3081Versioning Shakespeare30 DRA3084 Physical Performance: Choreography in Theatre-Making30 Theatre Research DRA3024Restoration Theatre: Culture and Politics30 DRA3050Creative Industries Management30 DRA3076The Actor's Body: Intercultural Theories and Practices30 DRA3082History of Acting30 DRA3083Theatre and Environment30 DRA3085Dis-eased: Performance and the Politics of Fear30 Art History and Visual Culture Plus optional modules as relevant from across HUMS disciplines. Full module descriptions

For full module descriptions please visit the Drama website and Art History and Visual Culture website.