BA Art History & Visual Culture and History
About this course
BA in Art History & Visual Culture and History, a History and History of Art degree exploring visual culture alongside political and social pasts. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, Historical Research, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme covers periods ranging from the Roman Empire to the twentieth century, incorporating local cultural resources such as a campus cinema museum and theatres. The first year establishes fundamental competencies through compulsory modules including Questions and Methods in Art History and Visual Culture, Becoming a Historian: Core, Understanding Medieval and Early Modern History, and Understanding Modern History, alongside optional choices exploring museum concepts or visual media. In the second year, students undertake compulsory field study involving an intensive trip, while selecting from specialised options covering contemporary visual practices, environmental arts, or specific historical eras. Optional modules span subjects from twentieth-century European memory to early modern society, allowing students to tailor their studies across both disciplines.
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Entry requirements
A level: ABB. IB: 32/655.
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Admissions (2022 entry, home applicants)
Offer rate 73%: 11 offers from 15 applications, from the university's Freedom of Information return.
What students say
Based on about 32 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 85%
- Learning opportunities: 72%
- Assessment and feedback: 78%
- Academic support: 76%
- Organisation and management: 74%
- Learning resources: 79%
- Student voice: 72%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 35 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 95%
- Left higher education: 5%
What graduates do next
Based on about 93 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Working: 64%
- Working and studying: 12%
- Further study: 9%
- Unemployed: 5%
Most common jobs
- Business and public service associate professionals: 18%
- Elementary occupations: 9%
- Finance Professionals: 9%
- Teaching Professionals: 9%
- Administrative occupations: 7%
- Find their work meaningful: 77%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 66%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 55%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 405 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 1%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 2%
- East Midlands: 2%
- West Midlands: 3%
- East of England: 9%
- London: 37%
- South East: 25%
- South West: 17%
- Wales: 3%
Who gets in
Based on about 50 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 95%
- Other HE qualification: 5%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Gold overall, Gold for student experience, Gold for student outcomes.
Modules
- Questions and Methods in Art History and Visual Culture
- Becoming a Historian: Core
- Understanding Medieval and Early Modern History
- Understanding Modern History
- Inside the Museum
- Visual Media
- Topics in Art History and Visual Culture I
- Topics in Art History and Visual Culture II
- Approaches to Art History and Visual Culture
- Climate Emergency! An Introduction to Environmental Arts and Humanities
- Sources and Skills: Modern
- Sources and Skills: Early Modern
- Sources and Skills: Medieval
- Art History and Visual Culture Field Study for Blended Learning
- Debates and Contestations in Art History
- Contemporary Visual Practices
- Photography and Evidence
- Contemporary Art and Curation
- Common Threads: Art, Craft and Activism
- Renaissances North and South: Italy and the Netherlands
- Revolutions! Art and Society in France, 1770-1830
- The Dutch Golden Age
- The New York Avant-Garde 1955-1980
- Comics Studies: Histories, Methodologies, Genres
- Creative Industries: Their Past, Our Future
- Intimate Spaces of the French Enlightenment
- Chinoiserie and Européenerie: Artistic and Vultural Exchanges between China and Europe
- Adventures in Environmental Arts and Humanities
- Forgetting Fascism, Remembering Communism: Memory in Modern Europe
- Deviants and Dissenters in Early Modern England
- From Gallows to ASBOs: Crime, Punishment, and Society in Britain and Ireland
- Strategy and Success in the Second World War
- Vikings and Other Invaders: Europe under Siege in in the Tenth Century
- Beyond Bridgerton: A Peoples' History of Britain, 1688-1834
- Creating an American Empire: From Westward Expansion to Colonial Empire
- Hunger Games: Poverty, Famine, and Environment
- Russia’s Empires: Societies, Peoples and Cultures
- Beyond the Tudors: Europe’s Worldview Transformed c.1500-1600
- Uses of the Past
- Doing History in the Digital Age
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Art History & Visual Culture and History at University of Exeter earn?
The median salary is £29,000 after 15 months, £28,000 after 3 years, £36,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £29,000 and £46,500. The £36,000 median after five years is £5,500 more than the UK median for History.
What do graduates of BA Art History & Visual Culture and History at University of Exeter do next?
86% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Art History & Visual Culture and History at University of Exeter?
85% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Art History & Visual Culture and History at University of Exeter?
The typical offer is ABB at A level. The average entrant had 142 UCAS points.
What is the offer rate for BA Art History & Visual Culture and History at University of Exeter?
73% of home applicants received an offer for 2022 entry: 11 offers from 15 applications, according to the university's Freedom of Information return.
Does BA Art History & Visual Culture and History at University of Exeter include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has an optional placement year and an optional year abroad.
How many students continue on BA Art History & Visual Culture and History at University of Exeter?
95% of students continued into their second year, and 5% left higher education.