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BA English Literature and Theatre, Acting & Performance

University of Worcester

Institution
University of Worcester
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English Literature and Theatre, Acting & Performance
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
WQ43
Typical offer
A-level BCC

Entry requirements

UCAS tariff points: 104 A-level: BCC BTEC National Extended Diploma: DMM T-level: Merit

About this course

BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and Performance and Design for Theatre and Screen. Core topics include Research Methods, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Design & Creative Practice. The final year offers a choice between a literary dissertation or a final performance project. A work placement module is available to apply skills in a professional setting.

Modules

  • Devising & Physical Theatre
  • Plays in Performance
  • Literary Forms and Genres
  • Ways of Reading, Ways of Writing
  • Writing Worcester Past and Present
  • Exploring the Canon: Literary Theory and Practice
  • Acting for Stage, Screen & Media
  • Directed Public Performance
  • Creative Movement Practices
  • Applied Theatre Practices
  • Performance and Digital Media
  • Playwriting
  • Musical Theatre
  • Movement and Migration
  • Politics, Sex and Identity in the Early Modern World
  • Shakespeare: Stage, Page and Screen
  • Gothic and Romantic Literature
  • Spaces of Modernity
  • Children’s Literature
  • Work Project
  • Independent Research Project (Dissertation equivalent module)
  • Final Performance Project (Dissertation equivalent module)
  • Professional Practice with Placement
  • Theatre and Disability
  • Queer Theatre & Performance
  • Theatre & Education
  • Immersive & Site-responsive Performance
  • Writing for Performance
  • Advanced Acting Practices
  • Staging Shakespeare Today
  • Justice and Revenge: from Tragedy to the Western
  • Postcolonial Encounters
  • Writing and the Environment
  • War and Conflict
  • Gendering Voices
  • Literatures and Cultures: International Explorations
  • Queer Bodies, Queer Texts
  • Metamorphoses: Literature and Adaptation