BA Drama
About this course
BA in Drama, a drama degree centred on the study of performance, theatrical history, and practical production. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students engage in studio-based work involving public performances and community-based projects, with options to combine the subject through combined honours. Following the first year, the curriculum focuses on fundamental studies with compulsory modules including Theatre Histories, Performance Analysis, Staging the Text, and The Creative Actor. In subsequent stages, students select from a range of optional modules covering topics such as Writing for Stage, Screen and Across Media, Acting Shakespeare, Popular Performance Practices, Applied Drama: Touring, Directing and Facilitating, Approaches to Acting and Contemporary Performance Making, Entertainment Technologies, Performing Culture: Theatre, Media, Identity, Audiences, Participation, Immersion, Activism and Performance, Musicals: Critical Perspectives in Contemporary Contexts, Creative Producing: People, Culture and Collaboration, Voices Across Stage and Screen, and Performance in the Age of Screens: Intermedial Theatre.
Modules
- Theatre Histories
- Performance Analysis
- Staging the Text
- The Creative Actor
- Writing for Stage, Screen and Across Media
- Acting Shakespeare
- Popular Performance Practices
- Applied Drama: Touring, Directing and Facilitating
- Approaches to Acting and Contemporary Performance Making
- Entertainment Technologies
- Performing Culture: Theatre, Media, Identity
- Audiences, Participation, Immersion
- Activism and Performance
- Musicals: Critical Perspectives in Contemporary Contexts
- Creative Producing: People, Culture and Collaboration
- Voices Across Stage and Screen
- Performance in the Age of Screens: Intermedial Theatre