Art History

In your first year, you are given a firm foundation in some of the aesthetic, interpretative and methodological approaches to the discipline of art history. Throughout your second and third years, there are opportunities for you to develop and expand your engagement with the discipline through a range of specialist modules.

As well as options that explore Renaissance and Baroque art, modernism, contemporary art, French painting, surrealism, photography and aesthetics, this programme also offers an introduction to work-related skills directly relevant to employment in the visual arts sector, such as visual arts writing and exhibition curation.

Film

The strong interrelationship betweenÊcontemporary art and cinemaÊis prominent in contemporary culture. Within the film element of your degree, you engageÊwith cinemaÕs rich scope and history, from silent classics and mainstream Hollywood to world cinema and the avant-garde.

Kent is one of the three major universities in the UK for film studies, and one of the most highly regarded departments in Europe. Our modules cover film theory, history and practice, and topics such as national cinemas, animation, fantasy and pulp film.

We have a thriving film culture, with the Gulbenkian (regional art cinema) based on campus and a lively student film society. In addition,Êyou have access toÊour new 62-seat cinema 'The Lupino', offeringÊstate-of-the-art digital projection and sound.Ê