B.A. History and Drama (Hons)

The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules. You may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Possible modules may include:

• Making History: Theory and Practice

• Modern Theatre: A Theoretical Landscape

• The Empty Space

• Modern British History (Part Two)

• The Renaissance in the British Isles, 1400-1600

• 1450 - 1600: The Age of Reformation

• Cinema and Society, 1930 - 1960

• Later Medieval Europe

• Introduction to the History of Science

• A Global History of Empires: 1850-1960

• War and Diplomacy in Europe c1850-2000

• Vikings: the European Project, 750-1066

• Britain and the Second World War: The Home Front

• Britain in the Age of Industrialisation 1700-1830

• The Rise of the United States Since 1880

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Possible modules may include:

• Costume and Fashion

• Performance and Art: Intermediality from Wagner to the Virtuals

• Introduction to Musical Theatre Dance

• Theatre and Adaptation

• Acting

• Shakespeare's Theatre

• Physical Theatre 1

• Site Specific Performance

• European Theatre from 1945

• Puppet and Object Theatre

• Theatres of the Past 1: the Classics

• Victorian and Edwardian Theatre

• Popular Performance

• European Naturalist Theatre & Its Legacy

• The Tools of Empire 1760-1920

• Anglo-French Relations 1904 - 1945

• The British Atlantic World c.1580-1763

• Conflict in Seventeenth Century Britain

• The Art of Death

• Inviting Doomsday: US Environmental

• Russia: 1855-1945 Reform, Revolution and War

• History of Photography:Between Science & Art

• Science Satirised

• Churchill's Army: the British Army in the Second World War

• The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

• Performing Lives: Theory & Practice of Autobiographical Theatre

• Theatre & Journalism

• New Directions

• Physical Theatre II

• Playwriting I: For Beginners

• Cultural Policies in the British Theatre

• The Shakespeare Effect

• Applied Theatre

• Performing Classical Texts

• Theatres of the Past 2: the Moderns

• Introduction to Stand Up

• Creative Project