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DRAMA UNDERGRADUATE STUDY • 2012 ENTRY

STREATHAM CAMPUS, EXETER

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Key InformationWhy study Drama at theUniversity of Exeter?

For further details on all our entry requirements, please see our Drama pages at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/drama

Streatham Campus, ExeterWebsite: www.exeter.ac.uk/dramaEmail: [email protected]: +44 (0)1392 722427

UCAS CODE TYPICAL OFFER

BA Single Honours Drama W400 AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32

1st in the UK for Overall Satisfaction

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Drama at Exeter offers you the time and space toexplore and experiment with performance andperformance making. Taught largely through studiosessions, the relationship between theory andpractice is central to the discipline. Our academic staffteach a range of performance and specialist skills andall of our teaching grows out of our research interests,so you will be taught by people at the forefront oftheir field who are passionate about the subject.

ere is the opportunity to research a wide range oftheatre histories and critical theories as well asspecialist practical modules which will prepare you for work in many areas of the cultural industries. ekey transferable skills you will obtain may be takeninto many varying professions.

You’ll have plenty of contact time with staff, who will challenge you and support the development ofyour intellectual and creative skills. You will be taughtby active researchers whose interests include areassuch as theories of actor-training, non-westernperformance, twentieth-century theatre practitioners,dramaturgy and playwriting, new media, live art, site-specific performance, gender and performance in theseventeenth century, music theatre, voice training,arts management, theatre and religion, and thepolitics of culture.

We offer you a supportive environment, wherecollaborative work with fellow students allows you to take innovative new approaches. You will need agreat deal of commitment (and demand it from us) –we are committed and if you are too you will findDrama at Exeter is a very exciting experience.

e study of Drama at Exeter dates back to 1927 with evening classes and we have now offered a full-time Drama programme for over 40 years. edepartment is one of the largest and best equipped in the UK. Over the last few years we have expandedand have excellent facilities which place Exeter at thetop for teaching spaces and resources. We haveinvested £3.7 million in our industry standard dramafacilities providing a superb environment for learningand research. We were ranked 1st in the UK foroverall student satisfaction in the 2010 NationalStudent Survey.

e department currently has two AHRC fundedcreative fellows: the internationally renownedphotographer, Hugo Glendinning, and ‘Britain’s mostimportant living playwright’ (e Times), HowardBarker. Both contribute to the department’s researchand teaching culture.

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Degree programme e programme aims to develop anunderstanding of performance skillsalongside a critical and imaginativeengagement with the social, historical and cultural contexts of theatre. Interest and involvement in contemporary theatreare central. e programme encourages this both as a subject of research and as apractical experience through performanceand community-based activities. e studio-based work also equips you with abilities tocommunicate effectively, to pursue creativeanalysis and to initiate and organise complex individual and group projects.

Most of the teaching and learning isundertaken in studio exercises, rehearsalsand training workshops. Other activitiesinclude seminar presentations, independentresearch projects as well as public andrestricted audience performances. Allstudents have a personal tutor who isavailable for advice and support throughouttheir studies and a student mentor duringthe first year.

How your degree is structurede degree is divided into core and optional modules, which gives you theflexibility to structure your degree according to your specific interests.Individual modules are worth 30 creditseach and full-time undergraduates need totake 120 credits in each year. Within Drama,in addition to the core modules, you can

choose from an extensive range of options, a few examples of which are shown at theback of this brochure.

For up-to-date details of our programme and modules, please checkwww.exeter.ac.uk/drama

Single HonoursBA Dramae degree is composed of a series ofmodules, most of which conclude with apresentation open to other Drama studentsand staff, to the University at large, or to thegeneral public. In the early stages of theprogramme the emphasis is on groupcollaborative work. As you move through thedegree this group work becomes the basisfor the development of individual interestsand skills. roughout the programme allDrama students get equal opportunities and challenges to act, to direct and to write or otherwise create dramatic events.

Year 1: In the first half of the year you willstudy a studio-based module called Actingand Not Acting, and a seminar-basedmodule, Pre-texts and Contexts of Drama 1,which is aimed at introducing you to eatreStudies and Performance Analysis asdisciplines of Drama. In the second half ofthe year your practical work will focus on aperformance-orientated module rooted inresearch through practice entitled Researchand Performance, and eatricalInterpretation: Practitioners will introduce a selection of modern and contemporarypractitioners in their context.

Year 2: In your second year you study threecore modules: Staging the Text, which looksat play texts in their historical and culturalcontext and the transition from page tostage; Pre-texts and Contexts 2, which willextend and deepen your critical andtheoretical vocabulary of theatre; andPerformance and Interpretation, a studio-based investigation of leading modern andcontemporary practitioners. You will alsochoose a practical option from a range ofmodules. You may be able to study abroadfor half a year and you can choose tointegrate a work experience into your degreein the module Humanities and theWorkplace.

Year 3: In your final year you can specialisein practical options such as InterpretativeActing, Directing, Playwriting, VocalPractice and Applied Drama. You can alsowrite a dissertation. Your degree culminatesin the Practical Essay, a piece of originalperformance that you will create with asmall group of fellow students for anaudience beyond the University, and eatrePraxis, an in-depth independent study of achosen area of theatre and performance.

The enthusiastic attitude of all tutors inthe Drama department ishighly infectious. I havefound that Dramastudents are devoted totheir art and feel proud tobe members of such ahard-working team.

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We teach mainly through studio sessions,which means that you will practise thesubject at the same time as you learn aboutit. At the start of the programme theemphasis is on group collaborative workwhich becomes the basis for development ofyour individual interests and skills later on.Practical class sizes are limited to around 20.

Each week you’ll have on average 6-9scheduled hours per module and will need to allow for additional hours of private study per module. You should expect yourtotal workload to average about 40 hours per week during term time. As well asattending sessions and writing essays andassignments, you’ll be expected to makepresentations from time to time. Weencourage your presentation work because it involves you actively in the teaching andlearning process as well as developingimportant life skills such as good verbal andvisual communication and effectiveinteraction with other people.

We’re committed to enhancing anddeveloping your key personal andtransferable skills. You’ll develop a range of professional skills, for example, timemanagement and team-working. You’llgain valuable critical, analytical andcommunication skills. Technical skills will include accurate note taking frompresentations, research and IT skills and you’ll also learn a wide range of Drama-specific skills appropriate to your module choices.

FacilitiesOur facilities include two digital mediasuites and upgraded technical facilities. Wehave six studios fully equipped for stagelighting and sound, ten other studios andseminar rooms, two sound studios, a videoand multimedia studio, state-of-the-artcomputer facilities for lighting and sounddesign, and workshops for set construction,costume and prop-making. To find outmore, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/drama/facilities

Research-led teachingResearch-led teaching ensures lectures are up-to-date and relevant and you willbenefit from access to the latest thinking,equipment and resources. All staff teachsecond and third year options which arelinked to their own interests which includeareas such as theories of actor-training,non-western performance, 20th centurytheatre practitioners, new media, site-specific performance, gender andperformance in the 17th century, musictheatre and the politics of culture.

Academic supportAll students have a Personal Tutor who isavailable for advice and support throughouttheir studies. ere are also a number ofservices on campus where you can getadvice and information, including theStudents’ Guild Advice Unit. You can find further information about all theservices in the University’s undergraduateprospectus or online at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate

Study abroadStudying for your degree at Exeter offersyou the exciting possibility of spending timestudying abroad. In 2010/11 Exeter’s highlysuccessful programme helped about 400students study at one of our 180 partneruniversities worldwide. You could learn anew language and experience differentcultures, become more self-confident andwiden your circle of friends. You could getthe chance to specialise in areas that are notavailable at Exeter, and when it comes to acareer, your skills and knowledge of anothercountry will prove invaluable to manyemployers.

e Drama Department has exchange linkswith Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia;Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia;Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey; IcelandAcademy of the Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland;University College Utrecht, theNetherlands; and University of Hildesheim,Germany.

For further details of our study abroadoptions, please check our website atwww.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/drama/undergraduate/studyabroad

AssessmentModules include continuous assessment ofpractical and written work. Other modes ofassessment are chosen to suit the work youare doing. ese might include portfolios,essays, interview/viva, performance,presentations, etc. ere are no written,timed examinations on this degree.

You must pass your first year assessment inorder to progress to the second year, but theresults do not count towards your degreeclassification. e assessments in thesecond and third years all contribute to yourfinal degree classification.

For full details of the assessment criteria foreach module, check the undergraduatesection of our website atwww.exeter.ac.uk/drama

Money mattersAt the time of printing, majorGovernment reforms to student finance are underway – these will allowuniversities to charge tuition fees of up to£9,000 a year from 2012/13. Universitiesthat want to charge more than the newbasic fee of £6,000 will have to meetadditional conditions to promote accessfor disadvantaged students. We have notyet confirmed our tuition fees andsupport levels for the coming year, but,once we have done so, we will update ourwebsite as soon as possible. We thereforerecommend you consult our website forthis information before you submit your UCAS application for entry to universityin autumn 2012. For further information,please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/money

Learning and teaching

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CareersA degree in Drama from Exeter will provideyou with a wide range of skills, which will beuseful in your future study or employment.Our students develop skills in researching,analysing and assessing sources, written andverbal communication, managing andinterpreting information and developingideas and arguments. ere is a wide rangeof career options open to you, for instance:

Perform Each year some of our students go on to further training at LeCoq, RADA,Guildhall, Central, and so on. Many becomeactors without further training and you seethem regularly on your TV screens (recentlyon Casualty and EastEnders). Manygraduates are working in theatre companieslike the RSC, or touring with nationalcompanies such as Out of Joint or eOxford Stage Company.

Direct Graduates of the department workas theatre directors with many small andmedium-scale touring companies, as well astheatres such as the Lincoln eatre Royal,the Exeter Northcott eatre, StadttheaterLinz (Austria), Orange Tree (Richmond) andthe Royal National eatre’s Studio. Severalgraduates of the department have also goneon to work in the film and televisionindustries as directors and producers.

Write Writers have had work produced for e Royal Court, the Royal Nationaleatre (Olivier Stage), the Lyceum eatrein the West End and the Donmar eatreand worked with companies such as FranticAssembly. Other graduates have written for EastEnders and had one-off dramasproduced for television (Channel 4) andradio (Radio 4).

Form new theatre companies Manygraduates set up theatre companies. Long-standing groups that grew from Exeterstudents include eatre Alibi, Foursighteatre, Forced Entertainment andPunchdrunk, who’ve received first classreviews.

Teach Significant numbers of our studentsgo on to teach at all levels of the educationsystem, from Primary to Higher Education.Graduates also work as education officersconnected to theatre companies includingthe Royal National eatre, SheffieldCrucible and Complicite.

Work with Drama in a social contextSome graduates go on to take furthertraining as drama therapists, and many go on to take up employment possibilitieswithin community drama, eatre-In-Education, or work in prisons and withmental health clients.

Work in technical areas Students havebecome stage managers at venues such ase Royal Court, company managers forcompanies such as e Reduced ShakespeareCompany, lighting designers and televisionfloor managers for example.

Research Each year a number of students go on to further postgraduatestudy or research in Drama and relatedsubjects at universities worldwide andbecome researchers and teachers in Higher Education.

Work in arts related areas Graduates are working as DJs on BBC Radio, stand-upcomedians and programme producers intelevision and radio, arts administrators forcompanies and Arts Council England, asmusical directors for theatres, operacompanies and films, as musical composers,casting directors and theatrical agents.

Draw on transferable skills to workoutside Drama Graduates also find work in other very varied areas: websitedesign, press relations, magazine editing,copywriting, account managing, nationalhealth practice, law and journalism.

Many students from the department take part in the Exeter Award and the Exeter Leaders Award. ese schemesencourage you to participate inemployability related workshops, skillsevents, volunteering and employment which will contribute to your careerdecision-making skills and success in theemployment market.

For further information about what theEmployability Service offers at Exeter visitwww.exeter.ac.uk/employability

Entry requirements and applyingYou can find a summary of our typical entryrequirements on the inside front cover ofthis brochure.

e full and most up-to-date informationabout Drama is on the undergraduate

website at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/drama and westrongly advise that you check this beforeattending an open day or making yourapplication. Some programmes require priorstudy of specific subjects and may also haveminimum grade requirements at GCSE orequivalent, particularly in English Languageand/or Mathematics.

We make every effort to ensure that theentry requirements are as up-to-date aspossible in our printed literature. However,since this is printed well in advance of thestart of the admissions cycle, in some cases our entry requirements and offers will change.

If you are an international student youshould consult our general and subject-specific entry requirements information forA levels and the International Baccalaureate,but the University also recognises a widerange of international qualifications. Youcan find further information about academicand English language entry requirements at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international

For information on the application,decision, offer and confirmation process,please visit www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications

Our admissions processWe endeavour to see as many applicants as possible before making an offer. Aroundhalf of applicants are invited to two days of workshops and an interview. A shortinterview with an individual member ofstaff is combined with staff-led andseparate, student-led studio sessions.Working and talking with each other andwith present students are importantfeatures of this experience. For mostapplicants this involves an overnight stay inExeter. Usually, most admissions workshopsare held in the first week of February, but we hold a small one-day workshop inDecember for early applicants. Applicantsfor deferred entry need to be available forinterview in the final year at school/college.

We are not allowed to make offers directly to candidates, but once a decision has beenmade and processed, you will be able to viewthe decision via the online UCAS Trackservice within 48 hours.

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Drama modules

Acting Greek Tragedy

Dance/Choreography

Interdisciplinaryspatial practices

Digital TheatreCrafts

Applied Drama

Puppetry and Object Theatre

Live Art

You’ll examine practically the implications forperformance found in ancient Greek tragic scripts,and explore the methods appropriate to theirrealisation by actors, working in monologue,dialogue, or three-performer scenes. Theexploration of appropriate methods will alsoinclude the study of acting with objects used asproperties, of acting techniques associated withmasks, and of interaction of individual actors withthe choric group.

This module will develop your skills, knowledgeand understanding of dance as a performing artthrough the inter-related process of performance(developing technical and expressive expertise inmovement as a language) and composition (using avariety of stimuli as starting points forimprovisation, exploration, selection andrefinement of movement).

In this module you’ll interrogate ‘site’ and ‘journey’as they stand in contemporary performance andvarious spatial discourses and examine potentialrelationships between artist, spectator and non-arts space.

This module offers you an exploration of thetechnologies which support performance, focusingon lighting, sound, video and stage management.Its constant aim is to test your understanding oftheory through practice.

The key focus of this module is on InteractiveTheatre which is one form of applied drama.Within this form there are a range of dramaticapproaches and structures used and you’ll look atways of employing these within an educationalsetting. We will focus on Theatre in Education(TIE) and Drama in Education (DIE) and thedistinctions between them.

You will explore contemporary puppetry and objecttheatre through a study of performance techniquesand approaches and through research intosignificant directors and theorists of puppetry.This module allows you to practice visual theatreand animation through a variety of materials.

This module explores a range of live art practices including performance art, body art andbiological art. Moving beyond a fixed definition of live art, the term ‘live’ will be interrogated inrelation to the specificities of the live event ofperformance as well as the different kinds of life(human, animal, and biological life) that have been incorporated in contemporary art andexperimental performance practices.

For up-to-date details of all our programmes and modules, please check www.exeter.ac.uk/drama

Year 1Acting and Not Acting

Pre-texts andContexts of Drama 1

Research andPerformance

TheatricalInterpretations:Practitioners

Year 2Performance andInterpretation

Staging the Text

Pre-texts andContexts of Drama 2

This module introduces drama as a processthrough both group practice and individualpractice, and to acting as a craft. You’ll exploresome of the uses, ideas, theoretical material, and training strategies that relate to both of these activities.

These modules explore ways of readingperformance, examine the nature and place ofperformance within culture and introduce the key theoretical and analytical approaches toperformance.

This module is an exciting studio-based modulethat culminates in a festival of performances from each tutor group. The idea of the module isthat you theoretically and practically engage with a particular area of research and develop your own group performance from that exploration.This means that you are not staging a performancefor ‘the sake of it’; rather you learn to develop aperformance that is critically, creatively andthoughtfully developed from a particular area of research.

This module introduces you to a representativeselection of modern and contemporary theatricalpractitioners in their context, and to their role asinterpreters of texts, furthering your own sense oftheatrical method and possibility.

This module introduces a variety of approaches todefining performances and art-forms and theanalysis and interpretation of their significance. By its reliance on cutting edge research by aselection of staff, it will also introduce you to theconcept of research in the performing arts.

This module explores the relationship betweendifferent kinds of texts and their interpretation inperformance. You will develop an understanding ofperformance contexts in relation to historical,theoretical and analytical approaches. Detailedstudy is encouraged through small groupdiscussion, practice, presentation and essay.

This module expands and deepens your criticalvocabulary for interpreting and analysing theatreand performance through a number of theoreticallenses and frameworks such as feminism,phenomenology, (post-)structuralism or culturalmaterialism.

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Study Abroad

Humanities and the Workplace(Independent Work Experience)

Year 3Practical Essay

Theatre Praxis

Applied Theatre –Practices andPerspectives

Approaches toDirecting

Devised Theatre

Dramaturgy

You will spend half the year at an agreed partneruniversity in a foreign country in order to gainknowledge of theories and practices of drama,theatre and the performing arts that is either notcovered at Exeter or can be studied from a newperspective. It will allow first hand insight into aforeign culture of learning and teaching.

You will take part in one or two subject-relatedplacements, totalling at least 80 hours. Benefitsinclude: understanding how drama is applicable tothe workplace, develop work-based skills andknowledge including technologies and applicationsand practical experience.

This module allows you to draw together theexperience of theatre-making gained through thedegree programme and to work in a group throughthe complex logistics of mounting a culminatingpresentation, that is likely to take the form of aperformance.

In this module you’ll use your practical work as ajumping off point for an in-depth independentstudy of a chosen area of theatre and performance.By reflecting in critical prose on an area ofperformance practice, you’ll further your dynamicunderstanding of the interrelationship betweentheory and practice, between thinking and doing.

This module examines the notion of appliedtheatre and explores the key theoreticalperspectives, critical discourses and performancepractices that constitute the broad field of applied theatre.

This module offers you in-depth study of a range of approaches to directing and the changing role of the director. It explores specific directors andproductions focusing mainly on the 20th and 21st centuries.

This module gives an overview of the history ofdevising in Europe and the US, as well as in-depthstudy of the work of specific companies andpractitioners. The module consists of staff-ledlectures and workshops, and student-led seminarpresentations of the work of specific companies.

This is the study of how playwrights make andshape plays in addition to questions of translationand adaptation from other sources, cultures andlanguages. As well as learning about the analysis ofplay texts for their dramatic structures anddynamics, you’ll look at texts in performance and the work of the dramaturge in the theatre,from translation to adaptation and how seasons of plays are planned.

Applied Drama

Directing

Interpretative Acting 2

InterculturalPerformer Training 1

Arts Management

Playwriting

Dissertation

Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Vocal Practice

This module provides an opportunity for you toapply your drama skills within non-traditionaltheatre contexts. You’ll create appropriateapplications of drama in those contexts andexplore questions and issues raised by theexpectations and demands of the role of theapplied drama worker.

This module offers you an opportunity to explore the possibilities and methodologies of the director’s role in depth, and its socialimplications.

This module furthers your understanding of the theories and practices of performance andencourages a flexible and exploratory approachtowards processes for preparing texts forperformance.

This module develops a strong foundation in pre-performative, psycho-physiological, body-mindpractices applied to acting and performancethrough Asian martial and meditation arts.

This module offers you an insight into thepractical management of the arts in addition todeveloping your professional and employmentrelated skills. It introduces you to the project andtime management skills required for delivering anarts event which you will then hone and developthrough the research, creation and realisation ofyour own performance brand.

This module is designed for students with anactive and committed interest in developing theirwriting skills for live and recorded performancethrough: practical, progressive writing tasks todevelop an understanding of the writer’s craft;discussion of the writer’s role in contemporarytheatre; writing for different contexts and spaces;and input from professional directors, dramaturgsand designers.

This module allows you to undertake an extendedpiece of research into an area of performancehistory or theory. You’ll structure an independentexploration of an area of particular interest linkedto the general syllabus and develop research skills,utilising the research facilities offered by thedepartment and the University.

This module examines key dramatic texts,focusing on themes of power, gender andtheatricality. You will examine the plays in theircultural, historical and theatrical contexts, and interms of their meaning in performance, both pastand present.

Vocal Practice provides an experiential foundationin practical voice, speech and body skills and theapplication of these to the oral interpretation of a range of written texts. The method of voicetraining will primarily focus on techniquesdeveloped by Kristin Linklater, Cecily Berry and Patsy Rodenburg.

Please note that availability of all modules is subject to timetabling constraints and that not all modules are available every year. For a full list and details of the individual modules, please check the undergraduate section of our website at www.exeter.ac.uk/drama

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The University’s undergraduate prospectus provides moreinformation about the University and the full range ofundergraduate degrees offered.

You can obtain a copy from www.exeter.ac.uk/prospectus

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This document forms part of the University’s undergraduate prospectus. Every effort has been made toensure that the information contained in the Prospectus is correct at the time of going to print. TheUniversity will endeavour to deliver programmes and other services in accordance with the descriptionsprovided on the website and in this prospectus. The University reserves the right to make variations toprogramme content, entry requirements and methods of delivery and to discontinue, merge or combineprogrammes, both before and after a student’s admission to the University. Full terms and conditions can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications/disclaimer

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Experience for lifeStudying at the University of Exeter isabout more than getting a degree – there’sa wealth of opportunities open to you todevelop personally as well as professionally.Exeter offers an exceptionally wide rangeof opportunities for you to gain the skillsemployers want – from managementtraining to business placements,volunteering programmes and pre-teachertraining, to a worldwide network of studyabroad opportunities and careers advicefrom our own successful graduates.

Great reputationExeter is ranked 12th in the UK in e Times Good University Guide 2011,making it the highest ranked South Westuniversity. Exeter has one of the highestNational Student Survey rankings in thecountry, being in the top 10 since thesurvey began, and in 2010 we scored inthe top 10 for teaching, academic support,personal development, and overallsatisfaction.* We are also in e Times top10 research-intensive universities: nearly90 per cent of our research was rated asinternationally recognised in the latest(2008) Research Assessment Exercise.

Investing in your futureWe are in the midst of a £275 millioninvestment programme on the Streatham Campus. Projects include anew centrepiece called the Forum,expansion of the Business School andfacilities for Biosciences. ese will becomplemented with modernaccommodation. e first phase of theaccommodation project was completed in September 2010, with most otherschemes being completed between theend of 2010 and summer 2012. We have also invested £9 million in libraryfacilities and £11 million in sportsfacilities, making them amongst the best in the country.

Exceptional location andgreat atmosphereA safe, student-friendly city, Exeter is rated one of the best places to live inthe UK for the quality of its facilities, low crime rate and fantastic countryside.e University has one of the UK’s mostactive students’ unions, sees some of thetop bands in the country perform oncampus and is one of the UK’s topsporting universities.

Explore the possibilitiesOpen DaysCome and visit our beautiful campuses.We hold Open Days twice a year in Juneand September.

Campus ToursWe run Campus Tours at the Streatham Campus every weekday at 2pm and at the St Luke’s Campus onTuesdays and Fridays at 12 noon duringterm time. You’ll be shown round by acurrent student, who’ll give you afirsthand account of what it’s like to live and study at Exeter.

For full details and to book your place, contact us on:Website: www.exeter.ac.uk/opendaysPhone: +44 (0)1392 724043Email: [email protected]

*based on average of positive responses for full service universities (ie, excluding specialist colleges)

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