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The UK’s European university
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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THE UK’S EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
www.kent.ac.uk
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