BA English Literature and Film & Theatre
Entry requirements
A level: BBB including English Literature or a related subject at minimum grade B. Related subjects include English Language and Literature, English Language, Drama and Theatre Studies, and Creative Writing. IB: 30 points overall including 5 in higher level English or one of the related subjects listed above
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature, Photography, Performance, and Design for Theatre and Screen. Core topics include programming, research methods, and critical and analytical thinking. Students study across two departments: English Literature and Film, Theatre & Television. An optional placement module allows students to undertake an industry role.
Modules
- Theory and Practice of Writing
- Poetry in English
- Analysing Theatre and Performance
- Approaches to Film
- Introduction to Drama
- Modern American Culture and Counterculture
- Shelf Life
- Introduction to Filmmaking
- Thinking Translation: History and Theory
- What is Comparative Literature?
- Film Forms and Cultures
- Identity, Performance and Culture
- Victorian Literature
- Contemporary Fiction
- Directing and Dramaturgy
- Placement and Employment Skills
- Documentary
- Reworking Shakespeare in Performance
- From Acting to Performance
- Television and Contemporary Culture
- Modernism in Poetry and Fiction
- Writing in the Public Sphere
- The Business of Books
- Enlightenment Revolution and Romanticism
- Writing America: Perspectives on the Nation
- Critical Thinking
- Early Modern Literature
- Shakespeare
- English Literature Dissertation
- Film and/or Theatre Dissertation
- Creative Research Project
- British Black and Asian Voices: 1948 to the Present
- Set Design
- Literature and Mental Health
- Children's Literature
- The Bloody Stage: Revenge and Death in Renaissance Drama
- Writing Women: Nineteenth-Century Poetry
- Adaptations across Stage and Screen
- Musical Theatre
- Film Programming and Film Festivals
- Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
- From Romance to Fantasy
- Placing Jane Austen
- Scriptwriting for Stage and Screen
- Screen Bodies
- Utopia and Dystopia in English and American Literature
- Shakespeare on Film