BA Acting & English
Entry requirements
Scottish Higher: Standard Entry Requirement: BBBC including English. Minimum Offer Entry Requirement: BCCC including English. A level: CCC including English. Irish Leaving Certificate: H2, H3, H3, H3 at HL including English. BTEC Extended Diploma: Minimum grades MMM (Merit, Merit, Merit) in a related subject. Grade C in AL/Higher English also required. IB: Award of Diploma with 27 points overall with three HL subjects at grades 6, 5, 4 including English. HNC: Pass HNC Acting and Performance or another performance based subject with grade B in the graded unit. Grade C in Higher English is also required. T Level: Grade Pass T Level must be completed in a English/Literary subject or A Level English may be required. Please contact ugadmissions@napier.ac.uk to check if you meet the subject specific requirements.
About this course
BA (Hons) in English and Performance and design for theatre and screen. Core topics include Research Methods, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Social & Cultural Analysis. Acting training covers both stage and screen, with final-year public productions and the opportunity to present work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The programme culminates in a dissertation.
Modules
- Introduction to Literary Studies: Text and Context
- Reading Texts: Analysing Film, Literature and Culture
- Acting Fundamentals I
- Acting Fundamentals II (Naturalism)
- Interpreting Text
- Critical Contexts: Introduction to Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
- Modern Drama: Shakespeare and the Renaissance
- Shakespeare
- The Modern Novel
- Intermediate Acting I: Contemporary Theatre Practice
- Performance Workshop 1: Shakespeare
- The World at War: Writing and Watching Global
- Narratives of Social and Sexual Deviance: Rethinking the Victorians
- Collaborative Practice
- C21 Literature: Writing the Unfolding Present
- Cultural and Literary Theory: Debates and Applications
- Advanced Acting: Screen
- Theatre Directing
- Leadership in the Creative Industries
- Narratives of Nature
- Bloody Bodies: Violence in Early Modern Drama
- Cultural Heritage: Narratives and Memorialisation
- Dissertation
- Performance Workshop II
- Festival Production
- Postcolonial Fiction and Film
- Modern Scottish Fiction
- Lateness and the Modern
- The Gothic Tradition
- Performance Skills for Professional Practice
- Memoir, Documentary and the Essay Film