BA Drama and Creative Writing
Entry requirements
A level: AAB
About this course
BA (Hons) in Creative Writing and Performance and Design for Theatre and Screen. Core topics include research methods. The programme offers a semester abroad option and provides practical training in a professional drama studio, with opportunities to participate in the student-run Minotaur Theatre Company.
Modules
- WORKING IN THE THEATRE 1: INTRODUCTION TO TECHNICAL THEATRE
- THE ACTOR'S CRAFT
- CREATIVE WRITING: BEGINNINGS
- GLOBAL THEATRES
- COLLABORATIVE THEATRE-MAKING
- CREATIVE WRITING: EXPERIMENTS IN GENRE
- APPLIED DRAMA AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
- LITERATURE STUDIES SEMESTER ABROAD (SPRING)
- FILMMAKING AND MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE
- SCENOGRAPHY, DESIGN AND TECHNICAL THEATRE
- POPULAR THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
- DEVISED THEATRE
- THE ACTOR'S WORK
- THEATRE DIRECTING
- SCRIPTWRITING: SCREEN AND STAGE
- THE WRITING OF JOURNALISM (AUT)
- WRITING IN THE WORLD: PLACEMENTS, PODCASTS, CREATIVE NON FICTION
- CREATIVE WRITING: PROSE FICTION (SPR)
- CREATIVE WRITING: PROSE FICTION (AUT)
- SCRIPTWRITING: TV/FILM
- SCRIPTWRITING: STAGE/AUDIO
- CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY (AUT)
- INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I - A2+ CEFR
- BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
- INTERMEDIATE GERMAN I - A2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' ARABIC II
- BEGINNERS' FRENCH II - A2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I
- BEGINNERS' ARABIC I
- ADAPTATION: CROSS-MEDIA TRANSFORMATIONS
- BEGINNERS RUSSIAN I (SPRING START)
- SHAKESPEARE (PRE-1789)
- BEGINNERS' ITALIAN II - A2 CEFR
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
- BEGINNERS' SPANISH II - A2 CEFR
- LGBT AND BEYOND: SEXUAL CULTURES, QUEER IDENTITIES, AND THE POLITICS OF DESIRE
- BEGINNERS' CHINESE I
- BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' RUSSIAN I - A1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' GERMAN I - A1.1 CEFR
- MAKING IT PUBLIC: PUBLISHING, AUDIENCE, & CREATIVE ENTERPRISE
- BEGINNERS' GERMAN I (SPRING START) - A1 CEFR
- ADVANCED ENGLISH II - B2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' JAPANESE II
- BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' ARABIC I (SPRING START)
- BEGINNERS' RUSSIAN II - A2 CEFR
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE II
- INTERMEDIATE GERMAN II - B1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I (SPRING START)
- INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II - B1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' ITALIAN I - A1 CEFR
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I (SPRING START)
- BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
- INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II B1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' GERMAN II - A1.2 CEFR
- ADVANCED ENGLISH I
- BEGINNERS' CHINESE II
- INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I - A2+ CEFR
- SELVES, IDENTITIES AND PERFORMANCE
- THE ACTOR'S ART
- PRODUCTION
- RADICAL PERFORMANCE
- PITCH, PUBLISH, PERFORM
- CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED SCRIPTWRITING
- CREATIVE WRITING DISSERTATION (SPR)
- LITERATURE DISSERTATION: POST-1789 (AUT)
- CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED PROSE
- CREATIVE WRITING DISSERTATION (AUT)
- WRITING TELEVISION DRAMA
- CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED PROSE (AUT)
- CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED POETRY (AUT)