BA (Hons) Drama and English
University of Lincoln
Key Information
Campus location
Lincoln, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
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Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Sep 2024
Introduction
Combine your passion for theatre, performance and literature with the BA (Hons) Drama and English degree at the University of Lincoln.
This interdisciplinary joint honours programme allows students to engage with the vast majority of modules available on the Drama and English degrees and offers full access to the range of unique opportunities developed by both programmes.
English considers literature from a variety of theoretical, historical, and cultural perspectives, while the theatre and performance components of the course allow students to encounter creative practice, technical theatre, and performance skills together with a critical study of drama and theatre.
Led by experts in drama and English literature, professional performers, theatre makers, and industry specialists, this course will help prepare you for a range of careers. Through a mixture of core and optional modules, both practical and theoretical, you'll be able to curate your own journey through the programme. While the English side of the course covers poetry, fiction, and drama, as well as less traditional literary forms such as life-writing and graphic novels, in Drama students can choose to focus on script work, play analysis, live performance, technical theatre, devised work, and more.
As part of your studies you may also choose to study abroad through one of our many international schemes, or take up a placement in a professional setting, working alongside a theatre company, arts organisation, school, or other education setting.
The course also provides opportunities for you to perform, create, and participate in a variety of performances, trips, and events with a range of partners including interdisciplinary students, professional artists and performers, and external organisations. Recently we've worked with organisations including the BBC, National Youth Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, and the Royal Air Force.
"This information was correct at the time of publishing (July 2023)"
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
For eligible undergraduate students going to university for the first time, scholarships and bursaries are available to help cover costs. The University of Lincoln offers a variety of merit-based and subject-specific bursaries and scholarships.
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
How You Study
Teaching practice on the Joint Honours degree is diverse and takes place mainly through lectures, seminars, studio-based workshops, and individual tutorials.
During the first year, on the English side of their course students are introduced to literary forms and theories, and texts and authors spanning almost a millennium, from the Gawain poet to Kazuo Ishiguro. In Drama, students take core modules designed to embed crucial skills, including ensemble and devising work, as well as play analysis and script performance.
In their second and third years, students are able to tailor their degree to match their own individual interests and aptitudes. They can choose from a wide range of optional modules and complete an independent study/dissertation in either subject on a topic of their choice.
First Year
- Devising and Making (Core)
- Ensemble Show (Core)
- Texts in Time: Medieval to Romantic (Core)
- Texts in Time: Victorian to Contemporary (Core)
Second Year
- Dis-Locations: the Literature of Late Capitalism (Core)
- Theory Wars (Core)
- After The End: Reading the Apocalypse (Option)†
- American Literature I (Option)†
- American Literature II (Option)†
- British Medieval Literature (Option)†
- Classic and Contemporary Fantasy (Option)†
- Collaborative Elective (Option)†
- Contemporary Political Playwriting (Option)†
- Experimental Writing (Option)†
- Industry Placements: Career planning (Option)†
- Literature of the Fin de Siècle (Option)†
- Making It New: An Introduction to Literary Modernism (Option)†
- Postcolonialism (Option)†
- Renaissance Literature (Option)†
- Restoration Literature (Option)†
- Romanticism: Literature 1780-1830 (Option)†
- Scenography and Design (Option)†
- Stage Combat (Option)†
- Staging Shakespeare & Co (Option)†
- Study Period Abroad - English and Drama (Option)†
- Teaching Drama (Option)†
- The Arthurian Myth (Option)†
- Theatre Practice (Option)†
- Theatres of Experiment: the Avant-Garde (Option)†
Third Year
- Acting Technique: Stage Naturalism (Option)†
- American Detective Fiction and Film: 1930 to the Present Day (Option)†
- Arts and Cultural Industries (Option)†
- Cabaret, Satire & Song (Option)†
- Degree Show Festival (Option)†
- Directing (Option)†
- Dissertation (15c) (Option)†
- Dissertation (30c) (Option)†
- Gothic in Literature and Film (Option)†
- Growing Up and Growing Old: Youth and Age across the Nineteenth Century (Option)†
- Independent Study: English (Option)†
- Irish Writing since 1900 (Option)†
- Life Writing (Option)†
- Literature and the Environment (Option)†
- Monsters and Violence in Middle English Romance (Option)†
- Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing (Option)†
- Performance, Media & New Technologies (Option)†
- Physical Theatre (Option)†
- Professional Production (Option)†
- Science Fiction (Option)†
- Sex, Texts and Politics: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Option)†
- Shakespeare I (Option)†
- Shakespeare II (Option)†
- Single Author Study A (Option)†
- Single Author Study B (Option)†
- Solo Performance (Option)†
- Specialist Elective II Semester A (Option)†
- Specialist Elective II Semester B (Option)†
- The Literature of Childhood (Option)†
- Theatre For Young Audiences (Option)†
- Twenty-First Century British Fiction (Option)†
- Womens Writing and Feminist Theory (Option)†
- Writing for the Stage (Option)†
† Some courses may offer optional modules. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by staff availability.
How You Are Assessed
Assessment methods on this course may vary for each module. For modules based in English, examples include coursework such as written assignments, reports, or dissertations; equally, there are practical assessments such as presentations, observations, and written exams. The weighting given to each assessment method may vary across each academic year and from module to module. For modules based in drama, students will encounter a wide variety of assessment types, including but not limited to performances, essays, individual and group presentations, annotated performances, presentation of practice, portfolio, Viva Voce, structured rehearsal/workshop, and programme notes.
Program Outcome
How You Study
Teaching practice on the Joint Honours degree is diverse and takes place mainly through lectures, seminars, studio-based workshops, and individual tutorials.
During the first year, on the English side of their course students are introduced to literary forms and theories, and texts and authors spanning almost a millennium, from the Gawain poet to Kazuo Ishiguro. In Drama, students take core modules designed to embed crucial skills, including ensemble and devising work, as well as play analysis and script performance.
In their second and third years, students are able to tailor their degree to match their own individual interests and aptitudes. They can choose from a wide range of optional modules and complete an independent study/dissertation in either subject on a topic of their choice.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Students can develop the skills and knowledge relevant to a variety of roles within the theatre industry, including actor, director, playwright, producer, stage manager, and technician. Graduates may pursue careers in related professions such as theatre making, directing, stage management, technical theatre, producing, marketing, and arts administration.
Graduates can also go on to careers in publishing, journalism, advertising, public relations, the civil service, and communications. Some choose to continue their studies at postgraduate level, while others undertake qualifications in teaching.