BA English Literature and Theatre QW35
Bachelor's degree
In Reading
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Reading
Full Time: 3 Years
This degree enables you to explore a broad range of topics across English literature and theatre, as well as areas where the two subjects overlap.
You will be studying in two departments (English Literature; and Film, Theatre & Television) who collaborate with each other extensively. Both have been leaders in their fields for a long time. English Literature was one of the first university departments in the UK to study American and Canadian authors like Margaret Atwood, and we continue this tradition with a curriculum that includes the best of contemporary writing from Britain, America and the Caribbean. The Department of Film, Theatre & Television pioneered the study of film in UK higher education, and we continue to lead in the range and breadth of the modules we offer.
The theatre component of your degree focuses on performance, and so we investigate plays in a variety of settings. You will make regular trips to performances in Reading and London, and will investigate a range of contemporary practices including site specific work and examples of digital technologies in live performance. We study twentieth and twenty-first century dramatists, such as Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane, and Samuel Beckett. Our teaching is a dynamic mix of theory and practice, and optional modules that include group-based practical projects are available for those who enjoy practice-based study. We have state-of-the-art facilities, including three theatre spaces, a dedicated recording studio and a mixing suite. You will have access to a studio with a flexible lighting system, multi-camera facilities, a talk-back system and Chroma key and a studio gallery linked to the theatres for live filming and mixing work. We provide industry standard software and support from dedicated technicians, and all spaces are equipped with state-of-the-art multimedia equipment and lighting. Over 100 performances, films, and television programmes are created in the Department of...
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Subjects
- Theatre
- English
- Writing
- Poetry
- Drama
- Art
- Lighting
Course programme
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
- Genre and Context
- Introduction to Theatre
- Poetry in English
- Research and Criticism
- Introduction to Film
- Introduction to Television
- Medium and Meaning
- Practical 1: Making Meaning
- Practical 2: Theatre
- Twentieth-Century American Literature
- Performance and Nation
- Alternative Forms in Film
- Alternative Forms in Theatre
- The Business of Books
- Chaucer and Medieval Narrative
- Communications at Work
- Contemporary Literature: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama 1950-present
- Creative Industries and Professional Development
- Creative Practice: Theatre
- Critical Issues
- Early Modern Theatre Practice
- Film Authorship
- Film Genre
- Introduction to Old English Literature
- Literature, Language and Education
- Literature, Language and Media
- Lyric Voices 1340-1650
- Modernism
- Performance and Identity
- Popular Television Genres
- Renaissance Texts and Cultures
- Research Production
- Restoration to Revolution: 1660-1789
- Shakespeare
- The Romantic Period
- Victorian Literature
- Work Based Learning
- Writing America
- Writing and Revising
- Writing, Gender, Identity
- Writing, Genre and the Market
- Dissertation
- The African-American Short Story
- Alfred Hitchcock
- American Graphic Novel
- American Poetry: Bishop to Dove
- Black British Fiction
- Children's Literature
- Chinese Theatre
- City of Death and Desire: Henry James and Venice
- Class Matters
- Classical and Renaissance Tragedy
- Colonial Explorations
- Contemporary American Fiction
- Contemporary Documentary
- Contemporary Performance
- Contemporary Television Drama
- Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
- Dickens
- Digital Text: Literature and the New Technologies
- The Director and the Theatre
- Editing the Renaissance
- Eighteenth-Century Novel
- "Eyes on the Prize": Literature of the US Civil Rights Movement
- Family Romances: Genealogy, Identity, and Imposture in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
- Fiction and Ethnicity in Post-War Britain and America
- Holocaust Fiction
- Holocaust Testimony: Memory, Trauma and Representation
- Irish Poetry
- James Joyce
- John Milton: Poet of the English Republic
- Literature and the Railway
- Margaret Atwood
- Modern American Drama
- Modern Epic
- Modern Scottish Fiction: From Jean Brodie to Trainspotting
- Modern and Contemporary British Poetry
- Modernism and Politics
- Nigerian Prose Literature: From Achebe to Adichie
- Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
- Packaging Literature
- Polish Film and Theatre
- Popular Film Genres (for example: rom-com, action, sci-fi)
- Psychoanalysis and Text
- Research Production
- Restoration Literary Culture: Drama and Poetry, 1660-1700
- Representing Conflict on Stage and Screen
- Samuel Beckett
- Science in Culture
- Shakespeare and Gender
- Storytelling in Film
- Utopia
- Victorian and Edwardian Children's Fantasy
- Victorian Literature and Medicine
- Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury
- The Writer's Workshop: Studying Manuscripts
- World Cinema
- Writing Global Justice
- Writing Women: Nineteenth Century Poetry
BA English Literature and Theatre QW35