BA English, Theatre and Performance
Entry requirements
A level: AAB (specific subject requirements) BTEC: We will consider this qualification in combination with other qualifications. Please contact the Admissions Office for more information. IB: 35 points overall with 16 at Higher Level including 6 in English at Higher Level.
About this course
BA in English, Theatre and Performance, an English and Drama degree centred on the combination of literary study and practical theatre work. Core topics include Design & Creative Practice. The programme draws on expertise from both the School of English and the School of Performance and Creative Industries. The first year establishes core foundations through compulsory modules such as Reading Between the Lines, Studio Practices, Performance Project: From Text to Performance, and Drama, Text and Performance. In the third year, students choose from a broad selection of optional modules covering diverse literary and cultural topics, such as Shakespeare, Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Culture, Media, Digital Discourse: language, social media, AI, and Postcolonial London. Students may also undertake a Negotiated Project.
Modules
- Reading Between the Lines
- Studio Practices
- Performance Project: From Text to Performance
- Performance Matters
- Performance Perspectives
- Literature, Culture and Critique
- Drama, Text and Performance
- Negotiated Project
- Bowie, Reading, Writing
- Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Culture, Media
- Digital Discourse: language, social media, AI
- Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After
- Global African Writing
- Home Bodies: Companion Animals in Contemporary Literature
- Language of the Media
- Postcolonial London
- Refugee Narratives
- Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
- Shakespeare
- Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir