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ARTS AT KENT / DRAMA, FILM & HISTORY OF ART

Victoria Hart & Grant Pooke

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School of Arts

• 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

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Canterbury

• 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

• Drama and Theatre BA (hons)

• Film BA (hons)

• Art History BA (hons)

• History & Philosophy of Art BA (hons)

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*subject to approval

Postgraduate Masters• 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*

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Postgraduate

Research

• Drama MA, PhD

• Film MA, PhD

• History and Philosophy of Art, PhD

Practice as research

• PAR Drama MA, PhD

• PAR Film MA, PhD

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Drama and Theatre

The Three Half Pints

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Drama and Theatre

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 6th in the UK for graduate prospectus in Drama, Dance & Cinematics – 2014 Guardian University Guide

Some careers our graduates have gone onto:

• 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

• 1st in the UK for Research Power in REF 2014

• 90% 4* Research Environment ranking in REF2014

• 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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