The UK’s European university
ARTS AT KENT / DRAMA,
FILM & HISTORY OF ART
Victoria Hart & Grant Pooke
School of Arts
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International reputation
for teaching and
research
Based at the Canterbury
campus, with a
postgraduate centre in
Paris and Rome
A range of highly
successful
undergraduate and
postgraduate degree
programmes, all with
important links to
professions and practice
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Jarman Building
Canterbury
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Award-winning Jarman Building incorporates teaching
rooms, social spaces and a dedicated centre for
postgraduate students
Professional-standard drama studios in addition to two
theatres, a sound studio and a theatre design suite
Industry-standard film production facilities and first-rate
viewing and library facilities, with highly developed IT
resources, Lupino Screening Room
Studio 3 Gallery, our dedicated exhibition space which
has played host to a series of public exhibitions
featuring work by major contemporary and historical
artists, such as Peter Blake and Tracey Emin
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Undergraduate
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Drama and Theatre BA (hons)
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Film BA (hons)
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Art History BA (hons)
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History & Philosophy of Art BA (hons)
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Postgraduate Masters
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Contemporary Performance Practice
Curating
Drama & Theatre
European Theatre and Dramaturgy
Film
Film (Paris)
Film with Practice
History and Philosophy of Art
History and Philosophy of Art (Paris)
History of Art (Rome)
Physical Acting (with an option to spend a term at the Moscow Art Theatre School)
Shakespeare
Stand-Up Comedy
Theatre Direction*
*subject to approval
Postgraduate
Research
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Drama MA, PhD
Film MA, PhD
History and Philosophy of Art, PhD
Practice as research
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PAR Drama MA, PhD
PAR Film MA, PhD
Drama and Theatre
The Three Half Pints
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Drama and Theatre
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A chance to develop creative skills for the theatre
profession
Focus on theatre from traditional text-based theatre to
innovative performance practice; from theatre
management to community theatre
Close links with the profession are reflected in guest
lectures and opportunities for placement learning, leading
to an excellent employment record
The School has also developed partnerships with some of
the major players in theatre in the UK including: Battersea
Arts Centre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and The
Globe
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Film
The White Ribbon
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Film
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Offers the chance to engage with cinema’s rich scope and
history, from silent classics and mainstream Hollywood to
world cinema and the avant-garde
Kent has a thriving film culture, with the Gulbenkian
Cinema based on campus and a lively student film society
Focus is on traditional academic studies, but there are
opportunities for innovative and creative practical studies,
for example, in film programming or film criticism
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History of Art
John Blackburn Exhibition – And
God Cryed
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History of Art
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Combines the history of the visual arts with the study of
the ideas that have driven artists to make the works they
have
Established strengths in contemporary art, photography,
aesthetics and European painting from the renaissance
Also offers a number of practice-based courses that
enable students to learn by doing
Modules include: print collecting and curating,
photography, visual arts writing, drawing, and an
internship course enabling students to work for a major
arts organisation
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Student Satisfaction
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3rd in the UK for Cinematics & Photography (Film) for
overall student satisfaction in the National Student Survey
2014
95% student satisfaction rate for Drama in the National
Student Survey 2014
96% student satisfaction rate for History and Philosophy of
Art in the National Student Survey 2014
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Good Job Prospects
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6th in the UK for graduate prospectus in Drama, Dance &
Cinematics – 2014 Guardian University Guide
Some careers our graduates have gone onto:
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Film-maker and adventurer, theatre critic, comedian/actor,
directors, casting agents, novelist, teachers, journalists,
museum management, curator, art-gallery owner,
publishing, art marketing
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Research-Led Culture
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1st in the UK for Research Power in REF 2014
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90% 4* Research Environment ranking in REF2014
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83% of our research has been assessed as world leading
or internationally excellent in terms of its originality,
significance and rigour (REF2014)
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THE UK’S
EUROPEAN
UNIVERSITY
www.kent.ac.uk