B.A. English Literature / Drama and Theatre Studies

Bachelor's degree

In Aberystwyth

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Aberystwyth (Wales)

Aberystwyth University offers a wide range of Joint Honours schemes that allow you to study two subjects that best suit your interests. In choosing to study the English Literature / Drama and Theatre Studies degree at Aberystwyth University youll immerse yourself in a rigorous and challenging discipline combining both practical and theoretical elements. You will look through and beyond historic and established forms to explore what drama, theatre and performance can be now and in the future.

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Location

Start date

Aberystwyth (Ceredigion)
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Aberystwyth University, Old College, King Street, SY23 2AX

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About this course

English Language Requirements Take IELTS test

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Subjects

  • Options
  • English
  • Theatre Studies
  • Drama
  • Theatre
  • Performance
  • University
  • Project
  • Writing
  • American Literature
  • Production

Course programme

Course Content

Year 1 Core (40 Credits) You must take the following modules:

Semester 1
  • Encountering Texts EN10020
Semester 2
  • Ancestral Voices EN10220

Year 1 Options Students must take the following modules:

Semester 1
  • Studying Theatre 1 TP11020
  • Making Theatre 1: Studio Project TP11120
Semester 2
  • Thinking Theatre 2: Analysing Performance TP11520

Year 1 Options You may choose up to 40 credits from the following modules

Semester 1
  • Greek And Roman Epic And Drama CL10120
  • Re-writing, Re-visioning Texts EN10120
  • American Literature 1819-1925 EN11220

Year 2 Core (20 Credits) ENGLISH - You must take the following module

Semester 1
  • Literary Theory: Debates And Dialogues EN20120

Year 2 Options Students may take up to 80 credits of TP modules in their 2nd year:

Semester 1
  • Modern European Drama TP20320
  • Acting TP21220
  • Directing TP21820
  • Designing TP22620
  • Shakespeare In Contemporary Performance TP23220
  • Devising TP26120
  • Performance Writing TP32720
Semester 2
  • Theatre And Contemporary Society TP20420
  • Contemporary European Theatre TP21020
  • New Media Performance TP33820
  • Production Project TP34940

Year 2 Options You should choose at least 20 credits from the following modules

Semester 1
  • Literary Modernisms EN20920
  • The Shapes Of Tragedy EN22020
Semester 2
  • Nineteenth Century Literature EN20720
  • Place And Self EN22120
  • Literature Since 1945 EN22920

Year 2 Options You may choose up to 40 credits from the following modules

Semester 1
  • Contemporary Queer Fiction EN31620
  • Writing Women For The Public Stage, 1670-1780 EN38720
  • Asian American Literature WL31720
Semester 2
  • Shakespeare, Jonson And Company EN33020
  • Demons, Degenerates And New Women: Fin De Siecle Fictions EN33420
  • Forms Of Children's Narrative Prose EN37820

Final Year Core (30 Credits) ENGLISH - You must take the following module

Semester 1
  • Reading Theory/ Reading Text EN30930

Final Year Options Students may, subject to the demands of their other scheme, take their remaining credits from the following Group B modules:

Semester 1
  • Applied Theatre Project TP34200
  • Playwriting TP34600
  • Independent Production Project TP35520
  • Creative Entrepreneurship TP35700
  • Independent Research Project TP36000
Semester 2
  • Applied Theatre Project TP34240
  • Playwriting TP34640
  • Solo Production Project TP35120
  • Creative Entrepreneurship TP35740
  • Independent Research Project TP36040

Final Year Options Students must choose at least 20 credits from the following Group A modules:

Semester 1
  • Early 20th Century Experiments In Theatre And Film FM35920
  • Contemporary British And Irish Drama TP30820
  • Place, Space And Landscape TP32820
  • Documentary Theatre TP33520
Semester 2
  • Theatre, Gender And Sexuality TP33120
  • Documenting Performance TP33320
  • Performance And Architecture TP33420
  • Performance, Politics And Protest TP35220

Final Year Options ENGLISH - You should take 30 credits from the following modules

Semester 1
  • Elizabethan Drama: Hieronimo To Hamlet EN31430
  • Victorian Childhoods EN31730
  • Twentieth Century Welsh Writing In English EN37930
  • Romantic Eroticism EN38330
Semester 2
  • Reimagining The World Wars: Contemporary Historical Fictions EN31530
  • Haunting Texts: Victorian And Modern Ghost Stories EN31830
  • Poetry But Not As We Know It-uk Poetry Since 70s-remapping EN34030
  • Detective And Crime Fiction EN34730
  • A Virtuous Vice? The True History Of The English Novel .... EN37730
  • Twentieth Century American Literature EN39330

B.A. English Literature / Drama and Theatre Studies

Price on request