Theatre and Creative Writing (Placement Year) : BA Hons : WW49

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

Price on request

The best Theatre courses

See all

See all

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Lancaster's degree in Theatre and Creative Writing is taught jointly by the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) and the Department of English and Creative Writing. It combines the study of Theatre with the writing of original and imaginative fiction, poetry or plays. These two different focuses reinforce and complement each other.

Studying Theatre at Lancaster gives you the opportunity to learn about innovative twentieth and twenty-first century theatre and performance through an exciting and varied mix of practical and academic approaches. You will be taught by internationally esteemed, award winning theatre practitioners and scholars and will gain critical and creative skills that open up possibilities for working in theatre, while making you attractive to a wide range of other employers.

Your Creative Writing courses are taught by a team of widely published authors through a combination of lectures, readings, practice and discussion in regular tutor-led workshops. Your degree includes an Introduction to Creative Writing in your first year, and in your second and third years of study you will choose additional genre-specific units such as Short Fiction, Poetry Writing or Creative Non-fiction.

You will begin your degree with core courses including, an Introduction to Theatre Studies and Creative Writing. In your second year you’ll move on to subjects such as Theatre Techniques, Performance Composition, Work Placement, Intermediate Creative Writing and Critical Reflections. You will then complete your degree by choosing from a selection of Theatre and Creative Writing modules on offer including a final year theatre production module.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Lancaster (Lancashire)
See map
Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

A Theatre and Creative Writing degree gives graduates the capability to work independently and collaboratively in a wide range of professions. Our graduates have become professional performers, choreographers, dramaturgs, technicians, directors and published novelists, poets and playwrights; community artists; administrators and producers of arts events; and therapists, teachers, lecturers and researchers.

You will also be able to develop key transferable skills, such as creative thinking, communication, project design and group management, as well as research, analysis, and critical writing. These skills will make you extremely attractive to a wide range of employers, including those within the different creative and cultural industries which now forms a large part of the UK’s economy. In addition, you will gain invaluable qualities such as a sharp kinaesthetic and literary intelligence, honed through constant creative practice and academic analysis, which will enable you to respond to any situation with far greater clarity and confidence that would otherwise have been possible.

Many of our Theatre and Creative Writing graduates progress to postgraduate degrees, to become academics, lecturers and teachers, whilst others train further in performance or creative writing.

Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, but that you also graduate with relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability/career development, campus community and social development.

A Level ABB

Required Subjects A level in one of the following subjects: Creative Writing, English language, English Literature or A level English Language and Literature.

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

Questions & Answers

Add your question

Our advisors and other users will be able to reply to you

Who would you like to address this question to?

Fill in your details to get a reply

We will only publish your name and question

Reviews

Subjects

  • Creative Writing
  • Theatre Studies
  • Theatre
  • Composition
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Arts and Culture
  • Writing Workshop
  • Theatre Techniques
  • Television Drama

Course programme

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Year 1

Core

    • Introduction to Creative Writing
    • Introduction to Theatre Studies
    • Placement Preparation
    • The Arts and Culture in Modernity
Year 2

Core

    • Critical Reflections
    • Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop
    • Performance Composition
    • Theatre Techniques
    • Work Based Learning Preparation

Optional

    • British Theatre & The State of the Nation (1945-2000)
    • Introduction to Television Drama
    • Media & Performance
    • Modern Dance
    • Performing the Avant-Garde
    • Postwar European Playwrights
    • Theatre Practice
    • Writing for Performance
Year 3

Core

    • Work Based Learning Placement
Year 4

Core

    • Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
    • Dissertation
    • Work Based Learning Reflection

Optional

    • Advanced Theatre Practice
    • Contemporary Dance and the Visual Arts
    • Contemporary European Postdramatic Theatre
    • New Scenographies in Performance
    • New Writing in Contemporary British Theatre
    • The Popular, the Political and the Avant-Garde

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

See related categories

Theatre and Creative Writing (Placement Year) : BA Hons : WW49

Price on request

The best Theatre courses

See all

See all