Theatre and English BA
Course
In Uxbridge
Description
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Type
Course
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Location
Uxbridge
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Start date
September
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Subjects
- Acting
- Directing
- Drama
- English
- Musical Theatre
- Theatre
- Performance
- Writing
- Musical
- Production
Course programme
The BA consists of both compulsory and optional modules, a typical selection can be found below. Modules can vary from year to year, but these offer a good idea of what we teach.
Level 1
Compulsory
- Perspectives 1 (Theatre)
- Ensemble Production (Theatre)
- Reading Resilience (English)
- Learning London (English)
Optional
- Acting: Essential Skills
- Applied Drama Practice: An Introduction
- Digital Performance 1
- Directing 1: Contexts, Theories and Practices
- Playwriting 1
- Musical Theatre 1
- Physical Theatre 1: Between Dance and Theatre
Level 2
Compulsory
- Perspectives 2 (Theatre)
Optional
In Theatre you can choose from:
- Acting: Beyond Naturalism
- Directing 2: Contexts, Theories and Practices
- Writing 2: Experiments in Language for Performance
- Applied Drama Practice: Project
- Physical Theatre 2: Performance and Embodiment
- Digital Performance 2
- Musical Theatre: Histories, Practices and Theories
- Performance as Research: Second Year Production Module
In English you can choose from:
- Nineteenth Century Novel
- Shakespeare Text and Performance
- Modernism
- Romanticism and Revolution
- The Women’s Movement and 20th Century Writing
- Post-Colonial Writing
- Contemporary British Fiction
- Genre Fiction
Level 3
Compulsory
You will undertake a substantial practical or written dissertation project in your final year:
- Final production (practical)
- Written Dissertation (in either subject)
Theatre:
- Perspectives 3: Battling with Ideas
- Professional Experience and Development
- The Canon Re-loaded
- Advanced Physical Theatre
- New Writing: Page to Stage
- Psychogeography
- Advanced Musical Theatre
English:
- Special Author
- A Sinking Island? British Poetry’s Response to Modernism and Postmodernism
- Post War and Late Twentieth Century Literature 1945-2001
- The Long Novel
- Postcolonial Perspectives
- Victorian Literature and Culture
- Jane Austen
- Postmillennial Fictions
- The Creative Industries
- Violence
- Pyschogeography
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Special Features
- The expertise and commitment of the Theatre and English teaching team.
- Small class sizes for all practical work in Theatre.
- 15+ contact hours per week at Level 1 in Theatre.
- Trips to see professional theatre in London with your entire year group and course tutors.
- A unique learning experience through the tutorial system where you develop a close working relationship with your personal tutor and fellow students in a weekly seminar group of no more than eight. This regular contact builds a strong bond between student and tutor and enhances the BA Theatre and English community within the Department of Arts and Humanities.
- The opportunity to study six skills areas at entry level and then select one or two areas for specialist study in your final year
- A two-day Professional Experience and Development ‘boot camp’ led by Theatre staff members to prepare you before you go on industry experience appropriate to your career aspirations with support throughout the process.
- Established links with the theatre and creative industrie
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