BA Theatre and English
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: International Baccalaureate Diploma 30 points. GCSE English equivalent SL 5 or HL 4
About this course
BA (Hons) in Performance and Design for Theatre and Screen, a programme combining theatre-making with English literature. Core topics include Research Methods, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Design & Creative Practice. An optional placement year is available, and students complete a 45-credit dissertation in either drama, theatre, and performance or English. Regular class trips to West End productions and other London events supplement the curriculum.
Modules
- Why Performance Matters
- Performance and the World
- The Reader’s Toolkit
- Writer’s Toolkit
- Acting
- Making Theatre
- Literature and History
- Writing and Difference
- Literary London
- World Literature
- Performance Perspectives
- Performance Lab
- Applied Theatre Project
- Music Theatre
- Acting as a Critical Practice
- Genre Fiction
- The Novel: The Nineteenth Century
- Literary Movements: Modernism
- Literature and Revolution: Romanticism
- Texts and Afterlives: Shakespeare
- Contemporary Fiction: Britain and Ireland
- Postcolonial Writing
- Contemporary Theatre Project
- Drama, Theatre, and Performance Dissertation
- English Special Project
- Acting 3: Advanced Acting
- Anti-Racism and Performance
- Advanced Musical Theatre
- Professional Practice and Development
- Movement and Physical Theatres
- Performing the Now
- Literature, Culture, Society: The Victorians
- Literature and Identity
- Post-War and Late Twentieth-Century Literature 1945 - 2001
- Special Topic: Violence
- Author Study: Jane Austen