Art History and Film Studies

About this course

Art History and Film Studies is a combination that treats visual culture in its broadest sense, examining how human beings have made and responded to images across different media, periods and contexts. Art history develops your capacity for close visual analysis, situating paintings, sculpture, photography and architecture within their historical, institutional and ideological settings. Film studies extends that analytical toolkit to the moving image, examining how cinema and screen media construct meaning through editing, cinematography, narrative and sound. Together they give you a set of critical skills that are increasingly relevant in a world saturated with visual information. At the University of Sussex this degree includes a foundation year, giving you an additional year to develop your visual literacy, critical thinking and academic skills before entering the main three-year pr

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 75% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 20% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 30% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Science, engineering and technology associate professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Sales occupations · 10% of graduatescards →

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