Drama with Business Studies BA (Hons)

What you'll study

Excited to learn more? For a taster of what you can expect to study on our Drama with Business Studies BA (Hons) degree, take a sneak preview of some of the modules you may have the opportunity to study below. Our core modules will introduce you to all aspects of the subject and provide you with the skills you need for the rest of your studies.

The information below reflects the currently intended course structure and module details. Updates may be made on an annual basis and revised details will be published through Programme Specifications ahead of each academic year. Please see Terms and Conditions of Study for more information.

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Final year

Year 1

In Year 1 our Drama modules develop core performance skills across a range of periods and styles and introduce you to reflective and critical practices enhanced by the study of the history of theatre across cultures. In Business Studies you will be introduced to key areas of business, including commercial law, structure and organisation, and management resources.

Semester 1

Languages of Theatre: How to Read a Play Core

Languages of Theatre: How to Read a Play

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the complexities involved in reading dramatic texts.

Introduction to Management Core

Introduction to Management

The aim of this module is to provide students with a understanding of the ways that management occurs in different organisational contexts.

Organisational Behaviour Core

Organisational Behaviour

This module aims to prepare students with a sound foundation of behavioural and organisational concepts and to develop a sensitive awareness and clear understanding of how people work individually, in groups and within organisations.

Performance Practices Core

Performance Practices

This module explores a variety of basic physical and vocal practices through set exercises towards a final performance.

Semester 2

From Analysis to Performance Core

From Analysis to Performance

This module introduces students to stage play analysis and performance development from critical reviews of live performances.

Management of Human Resources Core

Management of Human Resources

The aims of this module are to examine critically the role of the Human Resource Management (HRM) function within the contemporary organisation and to develop a clear understanding of how the HRM function maintains an equitable relationship between employer and employee.

Principles of Law Core

Principles of Law

This module aims to introduce basic legal concepts relevant to commercial activity and to explain their relevance as a parameter of business decision-making. It also explains how legal principles are created by case law and statute and illustrate their relevance to all aspects of business activity.

The Theatre and its Histories Core

The Theatre and its Histories

The aims of this module are to explore the role of theatre and performance in history; to investigate questions of its roots and origins; and to trace key developments in theatre and performance through history.

Year 2

In year 2 your Drama modules deepen your theoretical knowledge and broadens the understanding of theatre across a variety of performance practices. You can choose to develop your acting skills or focus on textual and theoretical study of theatre. In Business Studies the modules you will study concentrate on finance, marketing and contemporary commercial environments.

You will take 70 credits worth of core modules and select 50 credits of optional modules.

Semester 1

Accounting for Business Core

Accounting for Business

This module aims to introduce the preparation and interpretation of financial reports, to develop students’ analytical and written presentational skills and to show the relationship between business context and financial reporting.

Principles of Marketing Core

Principles of Marketing

This module introduces students to the principles of marketing and the role of marketing management, in and the impact of internet marketing in a variety of organisational settings (Retail, industrial, service and non-profit orientated).

Production 1 Core

Production 1

Students explore a specified genre, period or style of performance in a short production and then reflect critically on it.

Brecht: The Critical Stage Optional

Brecht: The Critical Stage

This module aims to consider how various approaches to staging work by Bertolt Brecht and how 'Epic form' may function in theatre today.

Theatre and Education Optional

Theatre and Education

The aims of this module are to explore a range of drama techniques used for making theatre in education and the community.

Popular Theatres Optional

Popular Theatres

This module aims to address the following questions: `What constitutes a popular theatre?' and `Can we talk about a popular theatre tradition?', by introducing students to a range of popular theatre forms across history.

A Revolt Against Fate Optional

A Revolt Against Fate

This module aims to provide students with a theoretical and textual understanding of the tradition of absurdism, introducing types of literature and theatre, generally associated with the label ‘the absurd’.

Semester 2

Performance Philosophy Core

Performance Philosophy

The aims of this module are to introduce students to a variety of theories applicable to the study of drama, bringing information and ideas together from different topics.

The Marketing Mix Core

The Marketing Mix

The Marketing Mix – Year 2 module Listed in English with Business Studies and Drama with Business Studies
This module aims to examine the nature of the marketing mix and the contribution of each of the marketing mix elements to an effective marketing strategy.

Accounting for Managers Optional

Accounting for Managers

The aims of this module are: to introduce students to a range of technical and analytical skills; to illustrate the application of analysis in a business context; to evaluate the use of accounting and financial management in planning, decision making and control.

Company Finance Optional

Company Finance

This module examines the background to the financing of companies; the methods used to raise finance; and the implications of using different sources in an international context.

Lighting and Sound Design Optional

Lighting and Sound Design

Students will gain knowledge of the fundamental elements that comprise Sound systems, gaining an insight into the principles of Sound recording. They will also explore aspects of lighting design both practically and theoretically.

Writing for Stage and Screen Optional

Writing for Stage and Screen

Produce your own original stage script or screenplay in weekly workshops that will introduce you to the dramatic conventions of character, dialogue and dramatic action. Learn how to reflect critically on your own work and that of others, and to develop your writing and re-drafting skills in a supportive environment.

Voice and Text Optional

Voice and Text

The aims for this module are for the student to acquire a working knowledge of the principles of voice production.

Final year

In the final year, our modules give you the opportunity to broaden your studies and specialise even further in your own areas of interest. Drama modules offer you a variety of options that can focus on practical work, especially in the Theatre Practice module, or develop your textual skills. The opportunity to develop your CV through work experience is also a popular choice. Our modules are taught from our tutors’ research specialisms and present you with the most current knowledge and theories.

You will take 40 credits worth of core modules and select 80 credits of optional modules.

Semester 1

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Core

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

The aims of this module are to present a range of issues on entrepreneurship related to the development of technical and non-technical innovation, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMES).

Fundamentals of Strategic Management Core

Fundamentals of Strategic Management

This module aims to introduce the concept of strategic management and to explore strategic management and to explore strategic thinking, the development of alternative strategies , and the implementation of strategic decisions.

Theatre Practice Optional

Theatre Practice

The aim of this module is for the student to explore a single performance text (either scripted or devised in depth) by studying and staging it as a full production.

Gender and the Stage Optional

Gender and the Stage

The aims of this module is for students to gain understanding and knowledge of the history of gender on the Western stage.

Group Project: Theatre in the Community Optional

Group Project: Theatre in the Community

Students explore the working methods and creative processes required in making a short piece of scripted or devised theatre, or video, which is performed off-site in the community.

Contemporary Shakespeare Optional

Contemporary Shakespeare

The aim of this module is for the student to explore the technical demands and creative processes required in staging an extract from a selected Shakespearean text, within a contemporary performance context.

Semester 2

Entrepreneurship and Small Business Planning Core

Entrepreneurship and Small Business Planning

This module aims to build on and apply concepts presented previously through the creation of a business plan for a real or imaginary business.

Leadership and Interpersonal Skills Core

Leadership and Interpersonal Skills

The aim of this module is to examine the roles of leadership and interpersonal skills in achieving effective teamwork, motivation and successful organisational performance by organisations and individuals.

Dance Theatre Optional

Dance Theatre

Students are introduced to the nature, aims, and practice of the dance-theatre.

Adapting Shakespeare Optional

Adapting Shakespeare

Focusing on the plays in the Shakespearean canon that have been subject to significant adaptation, this module will enable you to examine the creative processes involved in various film and stage adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays over the years.

Theatre of the Avant Garde Optional

Theatre of the Avant Garde

The aims of this module are for the student to gain an understanding of forms of avant-garde theatre. A range of theories will be interrogated including Meyerhold, Marinetti, Artaud, Witkiewicz and Barker.

Semester 1 & 2

Analysing Work Experience Optional

Analysing Work Experience