BA English Literature with Drama Studies
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: 32 points overall with no score less than 4 and including 6 in Higher Level English or pass the IB Diploma plus 6,5,5 in 3 HL subjects including 6 in Higher Level English. BTEC: Applications considered. BTEC in a humanities-related subject plus A level English at grade A required
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and Performance and design for theatre and screen, combining English Literature with Drama. Core topics include Research Methods. The curriculum integrates collaborative partnerships with the Everyman and Playhouse and Shakespeare North alongside input from theatre practitioners.
Modules
- LITERATURE IN TIME
- CLOSE READING
- READING DRAMA
- WAYS OF READING
- THEORISING THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
- KNIGHTS, ENCHANTRESSES AND ROGUES, 1100-1500
- DRAMA 1580-1640
- RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE: MILTON TO JOHNSON
- VICTORIAN LITERATURE
- BRITISH WRITING SINCE 1945: FICTION AND DRAMA
- WRITING MAGAZINES / MAGAZINE WRITING: HISTORY, LITERATURE AND THE PERIODICAL
- PROFESSIONAL AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT
- WEIMAR FILM AND LITERATURE: THE CITY AND MODERNITY
- SHAKESPEARE IN CONTEXT
- ROMANTIC LITERATURE
- MODERNIST LITERATURE
- WORLD DRAMA
- BANNED: FICTION, SEX AND THE LIMITS OF DECENCY
- INTRO TO CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY & PROSE
- LITERATURE AND THE FANTASTIC
- AMERICAN POETIC WRITING SINCE 1930
- NOIR: LITERATURE, FILM, ART
- BREAKING THE SENTENCE: LITERATURE AND FEMINISMS
- LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
- SHAKESCENE: MAKING SHAKESPEARE ON PAGE, STAGE, AND SCREEN
- RENAISSANCE POETRY
- THE NOVEL: 1740-1830
- WAR WRITING
- POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE AND THEORY
- MILLENNIAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
- CREATIVE WRITING (DRAMA)
- SPECIAL TOPIC: LITERATURE
- WRITING NOW
- HUMAN/NON-HUMAN ENCOUNTERS IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
- THE FIN DE SIECLE: LITERATURE AND CULTURE 1880-1910
- GOTHIC FICTION AND FILM
- WRITING FOR RADIO: BROADCASTING IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN AND IRELAND
- JAMES JOYCE: A WRITING LIFE
- GAMES PLAYING ROLES
- CONTEMPORARY DRAMA
- CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
- SCHOOL OF THE ARTS WORK PLACEMENTS MODULE
- LITERATURE DISSERTATION (OVER BOTH SEMESTERS)