Theatre and Drama Studies (BA): 4-year, part-time

Birkbeck, University of London

Bachelor's degree

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 Years

Are you passionate about live performance and theatre practice? Would you like to study in central London, at the heart of the city’s vibrant theatre culture? BA Theatre and Drama Studies at Birkbeck will enable you to investigate the theatre in all its aspects: as live performance, as dramatic text, in its historical contexts, and through a range of practices and ideas that have informed the making and understanding of theatre.

Alongside academic explorations of theatre history, theory and practice, you will create new performance work as a group. Whether devised from scratch, play script, in response to a particular setting, or working under the directorship of a guest artist, your work will ask questions about the world we live in.

To complement your study of theatre, you can choose options in English literature, arts and humanities, creative writing and arts management. Throughout your degree, your work will be informed by visits to some of the world’s most exciting theatre institutions, asking questions about how theatre is presented in London now. BA Theatre and Drama Studies at Birkbeck does not offer actor training, but the chance to experiment with practices and ideas, to create theatre with a group of like-minded people, and to gain access to knowledge with world-leading academics and artists working in the theatre industry today.

This course is also available for full-time evening study over three years.

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Location

Start date

London
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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

Start date

On request

About this course

Graduates can pursue careers in education, theatre or the media and creative arts. This degree may also be useful in becoming a journalist, arts administrator, charity officer, theatre director or higher education lecturer.

We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.

We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.

Awarding Body
University of London

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Subjects

  • Shakespeare
  • Access
  • Options
  • Creative Writing
  • English
  • Drama
  • Theatre
  • Project
  • Writing
  • Part Time
  • Humanities

Course programme

COURSE STRUCTURE

During this course you will study theatre and drama practices, theories, institutions, companies and artists from across the world, from Ancient Greece to the present day. You will also receive essential training in performance analysis, theatre and performance history, cultural theory and research methods. Options allow you to study specific subjects in depth, for example tragedy, the body, arts management, cinema, journalism, museum studies, playwriting, seventeenth-century drama, and contemporary theatre and performance in London. Option modules are drawn from subjects across the School of Arts, including arts and humanities, English, creative writing, and film and media studies.

In Year 1, you take three core modules, including a portfolio on Theatre in London.

In Year 2, you take four compulsory modules, including a portfolio on Theatre in London.

In Year 3, you take three compulsory modules, including a portfolio on Theatre in London, and choose one option module.

In Year 4, you complete an independent research project, write a portfolio on Theatre in London, and choose one option module.

YEAR 1 CORE MODULES
  • Performing Theatre Histories (Critical Practice I)
  • Theatre in London Now: Histories of London: level 4, 30 credits
  • Theatre Languages
YEAR 2 COMPULSORY MODULES
  • Adaptations: Theories and Practices in Contemporary Performance
  • Space and Performance (Critical Practice II)
  • Theatre in London Now: London Spaces: level 5, 0 credits
  • Theories of Theatricality and Performance
YEAR 3 COMPULSORY MODULES
  • Communities in Theatre and Performance (Critical Practice III)
  • Staging the Contemporary: Issues in Theatre and Performance
  • Theatre in London Now: London Policies and Communities: level 6, 0 credits
YEAR 4 CORE MODULES
  • Independent Research Project in Theatre and Performance
  • Theatre in London Now: Student Led Project: level 6, 30 credits
OPTION MODULES
  • Comedy: Drama and Theatre in Seventeenth Century England
  • Developing an Arts Project
  • Elizabethan and Seventeenth Century Drama
  • Medieval and Renaissance Body, Mind, and Soul
  • Science Fiction
  • Shakespeare
  • Tragedy
  • Transcultural Encounters: Literature, Empire, Ethnicity
Birkbeck makes all reasonable efforts to deliver educational services, modules and programmes of study as described on our website. In the event that there are material changes to our offering (for example, due to matters beyond our control), we will update applicant and student facing information as quickly as possible and offer alternatives to applicants, offer-holders and current students.

Additional information

FEES
Part-time international students: £10710 pa

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