About this program
Drama and English Literature BA (Hons)
Drama
Studying Drama at Bath Spa gives you the performance, critical and creative skills you need to launch yourself into a variety of exciting careers.
You'll explore your creative identity through core and optional modules in areas of practice such as play production, performing, writing and directing, and topics such as Shakespeare, musical theatre, physical theatre, applied theatre and media and performance.
Among many of the options open to you will be acting, directing, education, theatre production, arts administration, or arts therapies; you could also choose to progress to further study, for example in as Directing, Creative Producing, Performing Shakespeare, Creative Writing and Scriptwriting.
English Literature
Literature is diverse. Every text we pick up gives us a different perspective on the world. At Bath Spa, we have another take on the subject – one that we think makes us one of the best universities for English Literature.
Our innovative English Literature degree has been designed to enable you to acquire specialised subject knowledge while developing practical and professional skills that you can apply to contemporary challenges, issues and debates.
English Literature at Bath Spa University introduces you to an incredible range of literary worlds. From classic texts to new and unfamiliar writing, you'll be asked to think differently about what ‘literature can be and to explore original ways of reading and analysing it. Well ask you to place your reading in wider contexts, and to draw on other disciplines to deepen your understanding and sharpen your insights.
You'll be taught by experts in a wide range of periods, literary genres and approaches to the study of words and writing. Our staff share a commitment to excellent teaching and to offering you the best possible experience during your time with us.
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Program content
Drama
Year one (Level 4) modules
- Investigating Theatre and Performance
- Contemporary Theatre
- Building the Ensemble
- Theatre Project
- Introduction to Theatre Production
- Performance Practices
Year two (Level 5) modules
- Making Performance 1
- Acting and Directing
- Applied Theatre
- Creative Production Skills
- Writing for Performance 1
- Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
- Musical Theatre Workshop
- Performance Explorations
- Making Performance 2
- Performance and Media 1
- Writing for Performance 2
- Musical Theatre Workshop 2
- Professional Placement Year
Year three (Level 6) modules
- Theatre and Social Engagement
- Staging Gender
- Performance Project
- Performance Research Lab
- Staging Shakespeare
- Drama Independent Study
- Musical Theatre Project
- Musicals as Popular Culture
- Writing and Directing for Performance 1
- Writing and Directing for Performance 2
- Podcasting
- Creative Enterprise Project 1
- Creative Enterprise Project 2
English Literature
Year one (Level 4) modules
- Parallel Texts
- Romance and Revolution
- Worlds of Ideas
- Narratives of Belonging
- Protest and Persuasion
- Thinking Together: Humanities in the 21st Century
Year two (Level 5) modules
- Voices in Conversation
- Reading Communities
- Bodies
- The Book
- The Literature of Laughter
- Who Do You Think You Are? Writing the Self, Written Lives
- The Marvellous - Writing Beyond Realism
- Transgressions
- Digital Humanities
- Working Together
- Professional Placement Year
Year three (Level 6) modules
- English Project
- Cosmopolitanisms - Writing Beyond Borders
- Literature and Psychology
- Nation and Race in the Early Modern Atlantic World
- Novel Forms
- Outsiders - Women and Writing
- Shock of the New
- Writing and Environmental Crisis
- Writing Now - Prizes, Popularity and Politics
Scholarships & funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Tuition
International students Full time: £15,240
Qualification
Program Intended Learning Outcomes
Drama
- Systematic understanding of a wide range of modern and contemporary drama, theatre and performance genres, forms and practices and their production and reception.
- Collaborative skills relating to the ability to operate safely, ethically and creatively within a wide range of performance contexts including interdisciplinary contexts.
- The synthesis of research, disciplinespecific knowledge and artistic skills in performance projects and/or community ventures.
English Literature
- Literary knowledge Systematic understanding of literary forms and their histories that engages critically with the diversification of the English literary canon and transnationality of literatures in English.
- Theories of literature Independent critical appraisal, application and synthesis of different theoretical approaches in the process of analysing literary texts.
- Ideas and contexts Critical analysis and engagement with different ways in which writers and their works reflect and inform the changes in the history of ideas across time and place.
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