BA (Hons) Drama and English Literature

Bachelor's degree

In Cambridge

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Cambridge

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    September

Explore different modes of performance that will develop your knowledge and practice of contemporary theatre. Discover how different societies have shaped English literature, and how English literature has shaped society. Prepare for a practical or academic career that could change the way others see the world.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Cambridge (Cambridgeshire )
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Anglia Ruskin University, Eastings Building,, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT, United Kingdom

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

About this course


Our BA (Hons) Drama and English Literature will help you develop many skills for your future career, including literacy, communication, creativity, self-reliance and teamwork. You can gain practical experience as a performer or stage technician, as well as the academic understanding needed to become a teacher or director.
Other roles in which our past students have found success include journalism, television, radio, the music industry, gallery work and arts administration.

120 UCAS Tariff points from a minimum of 2 A Levels (or equivalent), preferably to include Drama, Theatre Studies or a related subject.
3 GCSEs at grade C, or grade 4, or above.
If English is not your first language you will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 6.0 (Academic level) or equivalent English Language qualification, as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University.

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Subjects

  • English
  • Drama
  • Theatre
  • Writing
  • English Literature
  • Dramatherapy
  • Principles of Dramatherapy
  • Studio Performance
  • Literature and Theory
  • Imaginative Writing

Course programme

Year one, core modules
  • Studio Performance
  • A History of English Literature, from the present to 1789
  • Reading Literature and Theory
  • Staging and Production
  • A History of English Literature from Chaucer to Equiano
  • Introduction to Imaginative Writing: Poetry and Plays
Year two, core modules
  • Making Performance
  • Postcolonial Writing
  • Practice as Research
  • The European Novel: Desire and Transgression
Year two, optional modules
  • Romantic Conflicts
  • Modernism and the City
  • Writing World War One: Trauma, Memory, Resistance
  • Principles of Dramatherapy
  • Dialogue and Debate: More to Milton
  • News and Feature Writing
  • Black British Writing
  • Scenes and Shorts
  • New Media Performance
  • Community Theatre
Year three, core modules
  • Major Project
  • Performance Showcase
  • Year three, optional modules
  • Contemporary Texts
  • Provocations
  • Principles of Music Therapy and Dramatherapy
  • Working in English and Media
  • Spectacle and Representation in Renaissance Drama
  • Modern Science Fiction
  • Acting for Camera
  • Site Specific and Immersive Theatre
  • Contemporary Fiction
  • Theorising Children's Literature
  • Romantic Idealism
  • Literature and Exile: Displacement, Identity, Self
Optional modules available in years two and three
  • Anglia Language Programme

Additional information

International students - 2018/19 (per year) £12,500

BA (Hons) Drama and English Literature

Price on request