Art History and Film & Visual Culture

About this programme

Art History and Film & Visual Culture at Aberdeen adds another dimension to your rigorous training in the history and theory of the moving image in the 21st century. You will study art, architecture, and curation, covering a wide range of media and techniques, at a top-rated university for student satisfaction in Art History. You will gain the skills to open up a range of exciting career options. Our unique Film and Visual Culture programme combines close analysis of visual objects and artefacts – analogue and digital, moving and still, underground and mainstream – with theories of visual representation, production and circulation. You will gain specialist knowledge and skills in the academic study of cinema, with an emphasis on building analytical skills in research and critical writing. You will also have the opportunity to develop skills in digital video production and web design. Art History at Aberdeen achieves regular plaudits for its high rates of student satisfaction. Join us for an outstanding student experience at our beautiful historic campus in Old Aberdeen, inspired by academics whose specialisms include environmental and political art, exhibition history and curation, theory and historiography, from the medieval period to the present day. The University of Aberdeen is delighted to offer eligible self-funded international on-campus undergraduate students a £6,000 scholarship for every year of their programme. This compulsory evaluation is designed to find out if your academic writing is of a sufficient standard to enable you to succeed at university and, if