English and Drama with Study Abroad BA

Programme structure

The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

The English and Drama degree programme is made up of compulsory (core) and optional modules, which are worth 15 or 30 credits each. Full-time undergraduate students need to complete modules worth a total of 120 credits each year.

Depending on your programme you can take up to 30 credits each year in another subject, for instance a language or business module, to develop career-related skills or just widen your intellectual horizons.

The third year is spent abroad.

Please note that modules offered are subject to change, depending on staff availability, timetabling, and demand.

Year 1

The first year gives you a foundational knowledge of English and Drama theory, concepts, techniques, and texts. You will also gain important analytical techniques that will be useful across a range of subjects and research tasks.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits DRA1004Acting and Not Acting: The Dialectics of Performance 30 DRA1007Theatrical Interpretation: Practitioners30 EAS1035Beginnings: English Literature Before 1800 30 EAS1041Rethinking Shakespeare 15 Optional modules

Students opt for one of the 15 credit English modules below, to run alongside EAS1041 and their term 2 module in Drama.

CodeModuleCredits EAS1031Introduction to Creative Writing 15 EAS1034Film Studies: An Introduction15 EAS1037The Novel 15 EAS1038The Poem 15 Year 2

In the second year you will advance your grasp of English and Drama knowledge, methods, and texts through a set of compulsory modules. Optional modules enable you to develop specialist knowledge on a range of topics.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits DRA2064Performance and Interpretation 30 Optional modules

In English, you should select one module concerned with literature pre-1800, and one other module. You may select HUM2000 Humanities in the Workplace in place of any other non-compulsory Stage 2, term 1 module. 

Select 30 credits of Drama Level 2 optional modules. Please note, students must take DRA2067 Staging the Text if they plan to take a Theatre Practise option in Drama at Level 3.

CodeModuleCredits English EAF2502Shots in the Dark30 EAF2510Adaptation: Text, Image, Culture30 EAS2026Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640 30 EAS2029Revolutions and Evolutions: Nineteenth Century Writings 30 EAS2071Chaucer and His Contemporaries 30 EAS2074Introduction to American Literature 30 EAS2080Renaissance and Revolution 30 EAS2087Creative Writing: Finding a Voice 30 EAS2102Satire and the City: English Literature 1660-1750 30 EAS2103Modernism and Modernity: Literature 1900-1960 30 EAS2104Crossing the Water: Transatlantic Literary Relations 30 EAS2105Theatrical Cultures: Renaissance to Restoration 30 EAS2106Romanticism30 Drama DRA2046Music as Performance30 DRA2067Staging the Text30 DRA2071Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre and Performance30 DRA2072Culture in / as Performance30 DRA2073Social Practice in Art and Performance30 DRA2084Women and Theatre, 1700-192830 College-wide Humanities HUM2000Humanities in the Workplace 30 Year 3

Students will spend the third year of their studies in a partner university on an Erasmus/Socrates exchange or other approved programme of study. The year abroad comprises 120 credits and assessment is based on the credits gained at the partner institution.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits HUM3999Year Abroad 120 Year 4

The centre-point of the final year is the dissertation. This provides you with the opportunity to explore an area of interest and to demonstrate what you have learned over the previous years of your degree. You will also take up to three other specialist modules to create a programme of work fully reflecting your interests.

The Year 3 dissertation may be taken in the areas of English (EAS3003), Creative Writing (EAS3122), or Drama (DRA3062).

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits Select one of the following: EAS3003Dissertation30 EAS3122Creative Writing Dissertation 30 DRA3062Theatre Praxis 30 Optional modules

If you have chosen to take EAS3003 or EAS3122, select 60 credits of Drama Level 3 optional modules and 30 credits of English options.

If you have chosen to take DRA3062, select 60 credits of English Level 3 optional modules and 30 credits of Drama options.

Please note, studio-based modules under 'Theatre Practice' can only be taken by students who have previously taken DRA2067 Staging the Text.

CodeModuleCredits Drama Theatre Practice DRA3009Theatre Practice II: Directing30 DRA3012Theatre Practise I: Applied Drama30 DRA3030Interpretative Acting II30 DRA3077Voice for the Actor30 DRA3081Versioning Shakespeare30 DRA3084 Physical Performance: Choreography in Theatre-Making30 Theatre Research DRA3024Restoration Theatre: Culture and Politics30 DRA3050Creative Industries Management30 DRA3076The Actor's Body: Intercultural Theories and Practices30 DRA3082History of Acting30 DRA3083Theatre and Environment30 DRA3085Dis-eased: Performance and the Politics of Fear30 English EAF3501American Independent Film30 EAF3504Cityscapes30 EAF3508Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Western Cinema30 EAF3509Diasporic Cinemas30 EAF3513British Screens30 EAS3100Hardy and Women Who Did: the Coming of Modernity30 EAS3116Short Fiction30 EAS3128Writing the Short Film30 EAS3131Advanced Critical Theory30 EAS3134Serious Play: Creative Writing Workshop30 EAS3136Myths of the Nation: Postcolonial Studies30 EAS3139Classics of Children's Literature30 EAS3141Imperial Encounters: the Victorians and their World30 EAS3143Romanticism30 EAS3145Acts of Writing: Literature and Film, 1953 to present30 EAS3165Charles Dickens and the Condition of England30 EAS3167James Joyce's Ulysses30 EAS3168The American Novel Since 200030 EAS3176Performing Digital Humanities: New Media Art and the 21st Century Museum30 EAS3177India Uncovered - Representations in Film and Fiction30 EAS3178Life-Writing: History, Form, Practice30 EAS3179Life and Death in Early Modern Literature30 EAS3180Literature/Anti-Literature30 EAS3217Crime and Punishment: Detective Fiction from the Rue Morgue to the Millenium30 EAS3219Virginia Woolf: Fiction, Feeling, Form30 EAS3225‘Reader, I Married Him’: The Evolution of Romance Fiction, from 1740 to the present30 EAS3226Modern Irish Literature30 EAS3227Greek Fire30 EAS3228Romance from Chaucer to Shakespeare30 EAS3229Gothic Evolutions: Literature and Visual Culture30 EAS3230Prostitutes, Pornographers, and Inverts: Sex in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century30 EAS3231Spectacular Bodies: Shakespeare and Counter-cultural Performance30 EAS3232Jane Austen and the Novel30 Full module descriptions

For full module descriptions please visit the English website and Drama website.