Drama and Film Studies

Bachelor's degree

In Cambridge

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Cambridge

  • Duration

    3 Years

You will be well equipped with the skills required by institutions and employers within the arena of drama, theatre and performance.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Cambridge (Cambridgeshire )
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Cambridge Campus, East Road, CB1 1PT

Start date

On request

About this course

Required subject(s): A-level Drama, Theatre Studies or related subject at grade B
GCSE(s) Required: English, grade C

We welcome applications from International and EU students. There are country-specific entry requirements.

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Subjects

  • Drama
  • Theatre
  • Performance
  • Film Studies
  • Art
  • Cinema
  • Skills and Training
  • Production
  • History of Cinema
  • Working in Film

Course programme

Course overview

This degree gives you the opportunity to develop your creative talents in and drama and film. It benefits from outstanding facilities for performance, as well as from our industry-standard resources for digital video and 16mm film production, alongside professional tuition in screenwriting and film journalism.

Course content in both subjects provides an excellent balance between theory and practice, allowing you to engage with essential critical and aesthetic approaches to film and drama, and, to apply those creatively to a range of practical projects in both areas. This is a challenging and stimulating course of study that will take you from the close study of texts and films, to the analysis and practice of performance and film production.

The course provides opportunities to screen or perform your work on and off-campus, to undertake commissioned work, and to engage with the film and theatre industries through self-generated work placements, encouraging the development of critical knowledge alongside transferable and vocational skills.

You will take half of your degree from drama and half from film studies.

Module guide

Year one core modules

  • Approaches to Contemporary Theatre
  • Introduction to Film and Cinema

Year two core modules

  • Making Performance
  • Live Art and Performance
  • Theorising the Specular and Classical Hollywood Cinema

Year three core modules

  • Major Project in Drama or Film Studies

Year one optional modules

  • Introduction to Performance (Recommended)
  • Performance Analysis (Recommended)
  • Visualisation, Research and Storyboarding (Recommended)
  • Film and Genre
  • Introduction to Video
  • History of Cinema
  • Anglia Language Programme

Year two optional modules

  • Writing Drama
  • TV Drama Production
  • Directors and Directing
  • Film, Identity and Globalisation
  • Documentary Film Theory
  • 16mm Film-making
  • Introduction to European Cinema
  • Independent Cinema: US and Beyond
  • Video Documentary
  • Animation
  • European Cinema and Identity
  • Anglia Language Programme

Year three optional modules

  • Devising Performance
  • Enterprise in the Creative Arts
  • Contemporary Drama
  • Art, Music and Performance
  • Special Subject (Theatre)
  • Reviewing New Drama
  • Arts Administration
  • Principles of Dramatherapy
  • Film Art
  • Film, Modernity and Postmodernity
  • Creative Practice in Film & Video
  • Working in Film
  • Avant-garde Film and Experimental Video
  • Multiplexed: Contemporary Popular Cinema
  • Anglia Language Programme

Assessment

Assessment is carried out via a very broad mix of methods including critical essays, reports, oral presentations, studio and public performance, an individual major project plus a range of practice-based research techniques.

As part of your learning you will be encouraged to seek work placements and to generate commissioned work in a range of modules. These form part of the assessment where undertaken. You will also be required to give critical evaluations of creative work undertaken and in 'crits' where you will present and defend your own work. Each year you will undertake Personal Development Planning (PDP) which encourages reflection on progress to date and the achievement of transferable skills and knowledge.

Additional information

Comments: Work placements: Building relationships with film-related organisations through work placements and commissions is encouraged. Students have recently undertaken work experience with: Cambridge Arts Picturehouse; Cambridge Film Festival; Red TV; ITN; London Weekend Television; BBC; CBBC; MTV; Zenith Productions; London Studios; and the New York Film Academy.
Career opportunities: Past graduates now enjoy successful careers in film, theatre and video production, film criticism, festival and events administration and management, film and theatre education and teaching, broadcasting, journalism and publishing, advertising and public relations. To date, students have undertaken work placements and commissions with regional and local television, radio and newspapers, MTV and the Cambridge Film Festival, and this has often been part of their assessed work. There are opportunities to progress on to the department's MAs in Film Studies or in Contemporary Theatre.

Drama and Film Studies

Price on request