The Film and Visual Culture Department at the University of Aberdeen offers a progressive approach to researching this influential and vibrant area of study.  Embedded in the scholastic traditions of a university founded in 1495, the fifth oldest in the English-speaking world, Aberdeen's Film and Visual Culture programme combines interaction with top researchers, an attractive teaching environment and excellent facilities.  The programme's distinctive remit is to consider film in a wider context of visual culture, rather than within conventional film studies boundaries.  This aim to place film against a backdrop of image creation from cave drawings to web cam culture, is designed to encourage a deeper understanding of the rich visual currents which have influenced film, and to better prepare students for entering today's diversified job market.  The Department is based in the School of Language and Literature and administratively linked to the English Department, which was rated in the top 25% nationally in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and with which we offer one of our most popular undergraduate joint degrees.  We also have a joint degree with  Divinity and Religious Studies, which was rated 2nd in the UK in the RAE.  Our popular Director's Cut public talks series is an example of the Department's efforts to actively promote dialogue between film practice and study.  Welcome to the web site.

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