BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre and Education

Year 1

Level 4 Overview. Year 1 is built around students having a variety of learning experiences that are focussed on the acquisition of skills and knowledge. The year is experienced mainly in large groups where students learn the skills of debating, forming and communicating an opinion in speech and writing. Students engage with theatre and performance making experiences, lecture based sessions as well as studying and experiencing how applied theatre works in real contexts. At times, students on the Writing for Performance pathway will take specific classes that focus on the dramaturgical tools of writing for performance.

Year 2

Level 5 Overview. Year 2 builds on year one and is more focussed on smaller group projects as students work on units where they have the opportunity to work more intensively with a group on particular activities. Students are encouraged in the structure of the year to begin to indicate what they are most interested in through choice within units. This choice might be in terms of a practical project (where students can work on a studio production, a play writing project or a film making project) or in terms of small community focussed projects (where students can enter into negotiation around a particular theme, issue or community with whom they wish to work.)

Year 3

Level 6 Overview. Year 3 is where students begin to work as peer professionals in the industry and are able to focus the remainder of their degree on an area in which they are interested. The final practical work in which the students engage is in small self-selected groups, or in an individual playwriting project, running alongside an individual dissertation. Students finish the degree with a unit that plans their interests post graduation both in terms of the industry and also their own particular philosophical response to their study.