BA Drama
Entry requirements
A level: AAB including one essay based subject
About this course
BA in Performance and design for theatre and screen, spanning dramatic arts and media studies across three undergraduate years. Core topics include Programming, Research Methods, and Ethics & Professional Practice. Students create and deliver practical theatre work in prisons and community settings.
Modules
- Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies
- Theatre and Performance Histories
- Performance Practices 1
- Performance Practices 2
- The Art of Film
- Introduction to Early Film Histories
- Introduction to World Cinema
- Theatres of Modernity
- Contemporary British Cinema
- Screen, Culture and Society
- Black on Screen
- Post-Thatcher British Theatre: New Writing Since 1992
- Performing America
- God at the Movies
- Devising for Performance
- Introduction to Documentary Film Practice
- Playmaking
- Solo Performance A
- Solo Performance B
- Drama in Education
- Horror Film: Genre, Periods, Styles
- Social Acts: Applied Theatre and Socially Engaged Arts Practice
- Theatres of Spontaneity
- Introduction to Screenwriting
- Discipline and Punish: The Modern Prison on Stage and Screen
- Archiving Culture
- Contemporary British Cinema
- Screen, Culture and Society
- Black on Screen
- Post-Thatcher British Theatre: New Writing Since 1992
- Performing America
- God at the Movies
- Horror Film: Genre, Periods, Styles
- Social Acts: Applied Theatre and Socially Engaged Arts Practice
- Discipline and Punish: The Modern Prison on Stage and Screen
- Dissertation in Drama/Film (Semester One)
- Dissertation in Drama/Film (Semester Two)
- Docufiction Filmmaking
- Applied Theatre: Theatre in Prisons
- Writing For Performance
- Performance and Public Space
- Professional Practices: Dramaturgy, Curation and Creative Programming
- Queer Bodies and the Cinema
- Directing Theatre
- Screening the Holocaust
- Activist Performance
- Social Lives of Cinema
- Extended Dissertation
- Falstaff and Gandalf go to the Movies: Adapting Fantastic Texts to Screen
- Contemporary Theatre-Making
- Global Television Industries
- Contemporary Documentary Film Making
- Screen Acting & Stardom
- Theatre, performance and care: studying artful care and careful art