BA (Hons) Drama and English Literature

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Bachelor's degree

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Ormskirk

  • Duration

    3 Years

Combining the study of Drama and English Literature, this degree enables you to experience a thorough and broad-based education for the drama and theatre maker of the future while also seeking inspiration from literature, from classic to contemporary works. The programme balances practical creativity with technique enhancement and dramatic theory alongside an introduction to a range of theoretical and critical approaches to literature. If you are passionate about embracing the written word on the page and expressing yourself through acting, directing, writing or applied drama, this degree will develop your artistic skills and vision in professional theatre spaces while also harnessing your love of language to explore the ideas that lie behind literature in all its forms and investigate the impact of literature on societies.

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Ormskirk (Lancashire)
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St Helens Road, L39 4QP

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On request

About this course

Typical careers for Drama graduates include working in the theatre/performance industry, working with professional companies, teaching (further training required), media, community or social work, theatre administration, community arts, and business. Alternatively, you may wish to progress to further study or research in Drama.

Typical careers for English Literature graduates include teaching (further training required), speech therapy, library work, media, journalism, arts administration, publishing, public and voluntary sectors, and managerial work. Alternatively, you may wish to progress to further study or research in English Literature.

120 UCAS Tariff points on the new UCAS Tariff, preferably to include Performing Arts, Drama, Theatre Studies or a related subject and A Level English or equivalent.

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Subjects

  • English
  • Play
  • Writing
  • English Literature
  • Drama
  • Production Projects
  • Shakespeare Problem
  • Author
  • Gothic Romanticism
  • Modernisms
  • Theatre
  • Contemporary Drama
  • Graphic Novel
  • Female Body

Course programme

Year 1

DRA1103 Introducing the Art of the Actor: Text, Voice, Chorus (20 credits)

DRA1104 Staging the Play: Text into Action (20 credits)

LIT1020 Ways of Reading (20 credits)

LIT1021 Critical Theories (20 credits)

LIT1022 Introduction to Literary Periods and Genres 1 (20 credits)

You will select one of the following modules:

DRA1101 Drama, Theatre and the Idea of the Play: Concepts, Cultures, Contexts (20 credits)

DRA1106 Drama Technique Workshops 1: Basic Practical Skills Development (20 credits)

Language modules in French, Spanish or Mandarin, delivered at the Edge Hill Language Centre, are available to study as an integral part of this degree. A single Language module can be studied instead of either DRA1101 Drama, Theatre and the Idea of the Play: Concepts, Cultures, Contexts, DRA1106 Drama Technique Workshops 1: Basic Practical Skills Development or LIT1022 Introduction to Literary Periods and Genres 1.

Year 2

DRA2102 Modern Theatre Practitioners: Principles, Practices, Purposes (20 credits)

DRA2104 The Making of Modern Theatre: Staging Classic Modern Plays (20 credits)

You will select one of the following modules:

DRA2101 The Modern Age of Drama: Forms, Movements, Modernity (20 credits)

DRA2105 Imagining Better Worlds: Theatre, Learning and Development (20 credits)

DRA2106 Drama Technique Workshops 2: Advanced Practical Skills Development (20 credits)

You will select two of the following modules:

LIT2040 Renaissance Literature: Self and Society (20 credits)

LIT2048 Renaissance Drama (20 credits)

LIT2049 Literature 1660-1760 (20 credits)

LIT2050 Romanticism (20 credits)

You will select one of the following modules. Alternatively, it may be possible to select this additional English Literature module from the remaining Year 2 options above.

LIT2027 Texts in Motion: Film Adaptation (20 credits)

LIT2041 Literature Dissertation Project (20 credits)

LIT2042 Literature and Globalisation (20 credits)

LIT2043 Literatures of Conflict (20 credits)

LIT2044 About Love (20 credits)

LIT2045 Modern American Literature: 1865 to the Present Day (20 credits)

LIT2046 Pilgrims Progress: British Children's Literature from the 18th Century to the Present Day (20 credits)

LIT2047 Producing a Literary Publication (20 credits)

LIT2051 Special Author 1 (20 credits)

LIT2052 Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century (20 credits)

LIT2053 Writing the Female Body (20 credits)

LIT2054 Writing the Supernatural (20 credits)

LIT2055 Rogues' Gallery: Crime and Criminality in the Long 19th Century (20 credits)

LIT2056 Vampire Fictions (20 credits)

WRI2019 The Graphic Novel (20 credits)

If you studied a Language module in Year 1, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 2. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of one of the optional English Literature modules above.

Year 3

DRA3102 The Contemporary Ensemble: Theatre Manifestos (20 credits)

PAR3104 Dissertation (20 credits)

You will select one of the following modules:

DRA3101 Researching Contemporary Drama: Theatre and Postmodernity (20 credits)

DRA3107 On the Road: Enabling Better Worlds (20 credits)

DRA3108 Event Planning and Management (20 credits)

PAR3106 Arts and Enterprise (20 credits)

You will select two of the following modules:

LIT3040 The Victorians At Work (20 credits)

LIT3041 The Victorians At Play (20 credits)

LIT3042 Modernisms (20 credits)

LIT3043 Contemporary Literature in English (20 credits)

You will select one of the following modules. Alternatively, it may be possible to select this additional English Literature module from the remaining Year 3 options above.

LIT3034 Gothic Romanticism (20 credits)

LIT3044 Early American Literature: 1500-1865 (20 credits)

LIT3045 Hosting a Literary Festival (20 credits)

LIT3046 Narratives of Nation and Empire (20 credits)

LIT3047 Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture (20 credits)

LIT3048 Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll: Young Adult Fiction (20 credits)

LIT3049 Special Author 2 (20 credits)

LIT3050 Sexuality and Subversion (20 credits)

LIT3051 The Shakespeare Problem (20 credits)

LIT3052 Late-Victorian Gothic (20 credits)

LIT3124 Dickens and Popular Culture (20 credits)

LIT3125 Speculative Fiction (20 credits)

WRI3020 The Writer at Work (20 credits)

If you studied Language modules in Years 1 and 2, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 3. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of one of the optional Drama modules above.

Optional modules provide an element of choice within the programme curriculum. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by timetabling requirements.

Additional information

International students enrolling on the programme in academic year 2017/18 are £11,575 per annum.


How will I be assessed?

Drama modules are assessed through a mixture of practical and written work including essays, portfolios, seminar presentations, workshop performances, full-scale productions and vivas. You will be required to reflect on your learning in each assessment and summarise your development regularly. Assessment of English Literature modules involves a mixture of coursework and examinations with emphasis placed on work produced in your own time or formally presented in class. Typically, you can expect to be assessed on essays, short analyses, reports and close readings, oral presentations and group work.

Who will be teaching me?

The Performing Arts team work closely together in an acknowledgement of the collaborative nature of performance. The team of academics, professional practitioners and technical staff, together with a range of part-time industry professionals and academic specialists, offer a wide range of learning experiences. Our dedicated and enthusiastic team of English Literature tutors are active in research in all taught subject areas, publishing books and articles on a regular basis. Several have been successful in winning national research awards from bodies such as the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and The Leverhulme Trust.

BA (Hons) Drama and English Literature

£ 9,250 + VAT