Theatre Studies And English (Ba): 4-Year, Part-Time

COURSE STRUCTURE

During this course you will study theatre and drama practices, theories, institutions, companies and artists from across the world, from Ancient Greece to the present day. You will also receive essential training in performance analysis, theatre and performance history, cultural theory and research methods. Alongside modules in theatre studies, you will follow a structured programme of study in English, involving attention to particular authors, texts, genres, themes and ideas.

In Year 1, you take three compulsory modules.

In Year 2, you take three compulsory modules - choosing between The Novel and Medieval and Renaissance Literatures - and choose one option module in theatre studies.

In Year 3, you take one compulsory module, choose two option modules in English and one option module in theatre studies.

In Year 4, you take one compulsory module, choose one option module in English and complete an independent research project.

YEAR 1

• Theatre in London Now: Histories of London: level 4, 30 credits
• Theatre Languages
• Writing London

YEAR 2

• Medieval and Renaissance Literatures
• The Novel: Writing the Modern World
• Theatre in London Now: London Spaces: level 5, 0 credits
• Theories of Theatricality and Performance

YEAR 3

• Theatre in London Now: London Policies and Communities: level 6, 0 credits

YEAR 4

• Independent Research Project in Theatre and Performance
• Theatre in London Now: Student Led Project: level 6, 30 credits

THEATRE STUDIES OPTION MODULES

• Adaptations: Theories and Practices in Contemporary Performance
• Comedy: Drama and Theatre in Seventeenth Century England
• Elizabethan and Seventeenth Century Drama
• Shakespeare
• Space and Performance (Critical Practice II)
• Tragedy

ENGLISH OPTION MODULES

• Beowulf
• British Literature, post-1945
• English Literary Modernism
• Fin-De-Siecle
• Introduction to Old English
• John Donne and Renaissance London
• Literature and the Politics of Feelings
• Medieval and Renaissance Body, Mind, and Soul
• Renaissance Philosophies and Renaissance Literature
• Romance
• Science Fiction
• Shakespeare A3 (Shakespeare In Context)
• Telling the self
• The American Century and Beyond US Literature and Culture since 1900
• The Bible in English Literature
• The Victorians and their World
• Transcultural Encounters: Literature, Empire, Ethnicity
• Writing Fiction

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