Theatre and English BA Placement offered Joint honours

The BA consists of both compulsory and optional modules, a typical selection can be found below. Modules can vary from year to year, but these offer a good idea of what we teach.

Level 1

Compulsory

• Perspectives 1 (Theatre)
• Ensemble Production (Theatre)
• Reading Resilience (English)
• World Literature, World Literacies (English)

Optional

• Acting: Essential Skills
• Applied Drama Practice: An Introduction
• Digital Performance 1
• Directing 1: Contexts, Theories and Practices
• Playwriting 1
• Musical Theatre 1
• Physical Theatre 1: Between Dance and Theatre

Level 2

Compulsory

• Perspectives 2 (Theatre)

Optional

In Theatre you can choose from:

• Acting: Beyond Naturalism
• Directing 2: Contexts, Theories and Practices
• Writing 2: Experiments in Language for Performance
• Applied Drama: Project
• Physical Theatre 2: Performance and Embodiment
• Digital Performance 2
• Musical Theatre: Histories, Practices and Theories
• Performance as Research: Second Year Production Module

In English you can choose from:

• Nineteenth Century Novel
• Shakespeare Text and Performance
• Modernism
• Romanticism and Revolution
• The Women’s Movement: 20th Century Writing and Contemporary Writing
• Post-Colonial Writing
• Contemporary British Fiction
• Genre Fiction

Level 3

Compulsory

You will undertake a substantial practical or written dissertation project in your final year:

• Final production (practical)
• Written Dissertation (in either subject)

Theatre:

• Perspectives 3: Battling with Ideas

• Professional Experience and Development

• The Canon Re-loaded

• Advanced Physical Theatre

• New Writing: Page to Stage

• Psychogeography

• Advanced Musical Theatre

English:

• The Muslim World in Early Modern English Literature

• Writing Ireland

• Modern and Contemporary Lesbian Literature

• Post War and Late 20th Century Literature 1945-2001

• The Long Novel

• Postcolonial Perspectives

• Victorian Literature and Culture

• Jane Austen

• The Creative Industries

• Violence

• Pyschogeography

Read more about the structure of undergraduate degrees at Brunel and what you will learn on the course.