Drama and English Language BA(Hons)
Bachelor's degree
In Huddersfield
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Huddersfield
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Duration
3 Years
If you want to investigate and understand how performance works, if you enjoy the thrill of live stage performance and love the English language, this course could be for you. We’ll take a very hands-on approach to give you the chance to get involved in staff and student-led performances, and focus on helping you develop your creativity.
On the English language side of the course, we’ll cover a broad range of topics in English language and linguistics, all with the aim of furthering your understanding and helping you gain useful and transferable skills. We’ll look at literary and linguistic approaches to texts and interaction to help you build up your analytical and interpretive abilities.
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About this course
QS World University Subject Rankings 2019 ranked the University of Huddersfield 25th in the world for 'Performing Arts'.
97% student satisfaction ranking us 2nd in the country (NSS 2018).
State-of-the-art facilities including three adaptable studios with sprung floors and state of the art multimedia projection equipment.
Dedicated rehearsal rooms.
Teaching by industry professionals and guest appearances from the likes of Professor Sir Patrick Stewart, Natalie Gavin, John Britton, Nicolás Núñez, Chloe Beale, Nicci Topping, Anna Helena McLean, and David Crowley.
Production based programme along with visits from practitioners and residencies from internationally known companies like Slung Low, IOU Productions and Northern Broadsides.
Opportunity to take a placement for five weeks, looking at ‘Language in the Workplace.’
Drama graduates have gone on to work in the performing arts, award-winning films, in television, touring theatre, and running their own performance companies. English Language graduates have gone on to work in fields such as teaching, marketing and PR, journalsim and event management.
A selection of companies that have employed Huddersfield graduates in recent years include BBC One, ITV, Channel 4, Lawrence Batley Theatre, BBC 6 Music, Royal National Theatre and Point Blanc Theatre Company.** Some students have chosen postgraduate study or additional vocational training in specialist areas, whilst a significant number successfully gain teaching qualifications and enter the teaching profession
A Level - BBB
BTEC - DDM
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Subjects
- English
- Drama
- Sociolinguistics
- Stylistics
- Theatre
- Performance Making
- Workplace
- Conversation Analysis
- Pragmatics
- Field Linguistics
Course programme
- Drama
- Models and Theories of Performance Practice 1B
- Text into Performance
Core module
- Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics
Choose two from a list which may include:
- Approaches to Language Study
- History of English
- Sociolinguistics
- Introduction to Stylistics
- Drama
- Choose one from a list which may include:
- Theatre and Performance Making
- Specialist Practice
- Models and Theories of Performance Practice 2a
- Models and Theories of Performance Practice 2b
Core modules:
- Language in the Workplace
Choose one from a list which may include:
- Communication across Cultures
- Conversation Analysis
- Stylistics
- Corpus Linguistics
- Pragmatics
- Field Linguistics
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Syntax
- Placement Year
- Drama
- Critical Context: Perspectives on Contemporary Drama, Theatre and Performance
Choose one from a list which may include:
- Process and Performance Project
- Final Year Project
- Dissertation
Option modules:
Choose up to three from a list which may include:
- Dissertation In English Language and Linguistics
- Relations Across Cultures
- Translation in Practice
- Audiovisual Translation
- Language of Humour
- Multilingualism
- Language and Power
- Child Language Acquisition
- Face and Politeness
- Forensic Phonetics and Forensic Linguistics
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Drama and English Language BA(Hons)