Drama and English Literature BA (Hons)
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This place is great and located at Historic town center. It has got beautiful campus, lightfast wifi and great food destination. Though town is small bit it has great night clubs and pubs to enjoy your nightlife.
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Bachelor's degree
In Winchester
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Winchester
The course introduces a breadth of study that includes modern and traditional literature, cultural study and critical analysis, Shakespeare and rap poetry. The study of non-performative texts alongside an appreciation of performance allows students a chance to think about how literary influences help to shape today's theatre, and allows students to consider how to adapt literary texts for theatrical production.In Year 1, English Literature elements provide an awareness of the range of different approaches to understanding texts and develop skills of critical analysis, research and writing. This is done through the study of an assortment of texts from various periods in history across the genres of prose fiction, poetry and drama. Drama modules in Year 1 provide students insights into the history of drama, the context in which dramatic production has taken place, how to make theatre, the political underpinning of texts and practices, and the ways in which textsand performances are viewed and interpreted.In Year 2, modules involve study of a group of texts representative of a period of history, a particular genre or a particular area of the world. The theories and practices that underpin the development of drama are explored, alongside practical aspects of performance.In Year 3, a specific collection of writings, a particular theme or critical theory is considered in detail. Modules here tend to be closely related to the research interests of teaching staff and engage with cutting-edge developments in the discipline. The Drama Group Project allows students to create small companies to make a major performance or develop an applied/Theatre-in-Education project.
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Our aim is to shape 'confident learners' by enabling you to develop the skills needed to excel in your studies here and as well as onto further studies or the employment market. You are taught primarily through a combination of lectures and seminars, allowing opportunities to discuss and develop your understanding of topics covered in lectures in smaller groups.In addition to the formally scheduled contact time such as lectures and seminars etc.), you are encouraged to access academic support from staff within the course team, your personal tutor and the wide range of services available to you within the University.Independent learningOver the duration of your course, you will be expected to develop independent and critical learning, progressively building confidence and expertise through independent and collaborative research, problem-solving and analysis with the support of staff. You take responsibility for your own learning and are encouraged to make use of the wide range of available learning resources available.Overall workloadYour overall workload consists of class contact hours, independent learning and assessment activity.While your actual contact hours may depend on the optional modules you select, the following information gives an indication of how much time you will need to allocate to different activities at each level of the course .Year 1 (Level 4): Timetabled teaching and learning activity* Teaching, learning and assessment: 240 hours Independent learning: 960 hoursYear 2 (Level 5): Timetabled teaching and learning activity* Teaching, learning and assessment: 228 hours Independent learning: 960 hours Placement: 12 hoursYear 3 (Level 6): Timetabled teaching and learning activity* Teaching, learning and assessment: 204...
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This place is great and located at Historic town center. It has got beautiful campus, lightfast wifi and great food destination. Though town is small bit it has great night clubs and pubs to enjoy your nightlife.
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Subjects
- Theatre Education
- English
- Drama
- Theatre
- Project
- Writing
- Poetry
- Shakespeare
- Production
Course programme
Year 1
Core modules:
- Theatre Histories
- Making
- Critical Reading 1
- Critical Reading 2
- Introduction to English Studies
- Early English Texts and Contexts
Year 2
Optional modules:
- C20th Ghosts: Theatre, Time, Identities
- Shakespeare and Ideology
- Production Project
- Popular Performance
- Theatre and Cultural Difference
- Controversy and Censorship
- Theatre as Cultural Action
- Theatre-in-Education, and Drama-in- Education
- Digital Performance
- Puppetry and Object Manipulation
- Physical Theatres
- Open Project
- Musical Theatre in the UK and USA
- Immersive Performance
- Contemporary Cultural Heritage
- Transcultural Practices
- Role of the Actor - Intermediate
- Role of the Actor - Advanced
- Writing for Performance
- Performance Criticism
- Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
- Seventeenth-Century Literature and Revolution
- Nineteenth-Century Romanticism
- The Modern Age
- Chaucer and His World
- Shakespeare and Seventeenth-Century Drama
- Eighteenth-Century Romanticism
- Victorian Fictions
- British Literature in the Age of Reason 1688-1743
- Literature in the Shadow of Revolution 1745-1775-1789
- Gothic and Romantic Fiction
- Postcolonial Fictions
- The Postmodern Age
- Individual Project
- Literary Adaptations for Film and Television
- Contemporary Children's Literature
- Volunteering for English
- American Gothic
- American Science Fiction
- Writing America
- Literature and Film
- Work and Money in American Literature
- Middle English Texts in Context
- Old English 1
Year 3
Optional modules:
- Extended Independent Project
- Group Project
- Group Project: Theatre as Cultural Action
- Performance Now: Debates and Discourses
- Performance Now: Advanced Research Practice
- Creative Entrepreneurship and Production
- Body Parts
- Theatre Stories
- Women, Autobiography and Performance
- British Theatre 1945-2015;
- Volunteering
- The Shakespeare Phenomenon
- Crime and Englishness
- Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
- Biography and the Body
- William Blake: Poet of Jerusalem
- Twentieth Century Dramatic Texts: Brecht and Beckett
- Consumer Culture
- Jewish Identities
- Keywords
- Literature, Sexuality and Morality
- The City in American Literature 1868- 1925
- Renaissance Poetry at the Court of Elizabeth I
- Romantic Celebrity Culture
- Globalization and Contemporary Fiction
- Literature and Psychoanalysis
- Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
- The Figure of the Law in Literature
- Post-Structuralism: Theory, Text, Culture
- African American Literatures and Cultures
- The Contemporary American Novel
- American Crime Fiction
- Sex and the City and Beyond
- Chick Lit/Womens Writing before Sex and the City
- Old English 2
Please note the modules listed are correct at the time of publishing, for full-time students entering the programme in Year 1. Optional modules are listed where applicable. Please note the University cannot guarantee the availability of all modules listed and modules may be subject to change. For further information please refer to the terms and conditions at /termsandconditions. The University will notify applicants of any changes made to the core modules listed above.
Drama and English Literature BA (Hons)