BA Drama and English
Entry requirements
A level: BBB including A-level English Note: for applicants who have not studied A-level English then AS-level English (grade A) would be acceptable in lieu of A-level English. IB: 32 points overall, including 6 (English),5,5 at Higher Level
About this course
BA in English and Performance and design for theatre and screen. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Historical Research.
Modules
- English in Transition
- Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Gender, Race, Ecology
- Introduction to Theatre: The Material Stage
- Introduction to Acting for Stage and Screen
- Introduction to English Language
- Theatre Now: Contemporary Performance
- Modernist Theatre
- Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World
- Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English
- Language and Power
- History of English: Studying Language Change
- Shakespeare and Co
- Irish Literature
- Devising Theatre
- The Art of the Actor
- Principles of Business in Arts, Cultural and Creative Industries
- Educational Drama
- Acting Shakespeare
- Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England
- Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
- Inventing America
- Modernism and Modernity
- Fiction and the Novel (1660-1820)
- Utopia / Dystopia: The Future in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
- Romantic Poetry, 1789-1832
- Enlightenment and its Discontents
- Dickens and the Cult of Celebrity
- Acting for Musical Theatre
- Drama and Mental Health
- America's Aftermaths
- Gender, Culture, and Representation – Backwards & in Heels
- Writing Contemporary Ireland: Elegy, Epistle, Ekphrasis
- Culture, Class, and Emotion
- The Bible and Modern Fiction
- Poetry from Britain and Irelan
- Women's Writing 1680-1830
- Dissertation
- Shakespeare on Screen
- Speech Worlds: Phonological Acquisition, Variation and Disorder
- Televising the Victorians
- Irish Theatre
- Beckett in Performance
- Language in the Media
- Double Dissertation English Literature
- Double Dissertation English Language
- Advanced Theatre Practice
- Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England
- Contemporary Indian Literature in English
- The Art of Interaction
- Special Topic in Creative Writing
- Special Topic in Irish Writing
- Renaissance Performance, Gender, Space
- Dance Theatre
- Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Devolutionary Identities
- The Structure of English
- Representing the Working Class
- Writing New York, 1880-1940
- Contemporary Poetry
- Irish Gothic
- The Theatre of Brian Friel
- Writing Africa: The Colonial Past to Colonial Present
- Work-based Learning
- Restoration to Regency in Contemporary Fiction
- Solo Performance
- Love Across the Divide: Northern Irish Literature and Culture 1968-Present
- Advanced Musical Theatre
- Participatory performance practices
- Shakespeare's History Plays: Then and Now