Students will need to take modules at Levels (see the list and requirements below). Please note that not all courses are available every year.
The compulsory modules at HE1 are the core of the degree and are therefore compulsory for all single-subject and two-subject students.
Other requirements:
- Students taking between 200 and 240 credits at levels HE2/3 in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies [Single Honours] will be required to take a minimum of 120 credits at HE3 and 80 at HE2 in the programme.
- Students will normally be required to take a minimum of 20 credits from each of groups A, B, C and E and a minimum of 40 credits from group D.
- Students will normally be restricted to taking a maximum of 80 credits from any one group across levels HE2 and HE3.
LEVEL HE1: Compulsory modules
- Thinking through Theatre
- Stages and Staging
- Engaging Performance 1: Questioning Performance
- Engaging Performance 2: Performance Fieldwork
- Contemporary Professional Practices
LEVEL HE2
Group A - Critical Perspectives
- Arguments for Comedy
- Innovations in Modern Theatre
- State of the Nation Drama and Theatre
- Riots, Censorship and Offence
- Representing Women: Feminist Perspectives on Drama, Theatre and Performance
- Theatre and the American Dream
- Race, Ethnicity and Representation
- Asian Theatre Forms, Culture and Society
- Theatre and Interculturalism
- Community Drama and Theatre
Group B - Histories, Forms & Practices
- Radio Drama
- Mapping Modern Drama
- Postmodernism and Performance
- Music, Theatre and Performance
- Modernism, Performance and the Avant-Garde
- Contemporary British Drama
- Performance and Live Art
- Classical Greek and Roman Drama in Context
- Staging Gender: Shakespeare to Behn
Group C - Performance Laboratory
- In the Beginning was Sound
- New Media in Performance
- Early Modern Practice
- Acting, Thinking, Feeling
- Performance, Culture and the Poetics of the Everyday: Field Methods in Performance Studies
- Contemporary Devising Strategies
- Adaptation for the Theatre
- Installation Art
- Voice in Dramatic Performance
- Approaches to Directing
- Practical Approaches to Acting
- Writing in Performance
- Design and Scenography
Group D - Production
- Studio Theatre Production
- Site Specific Theatre Production
LEVEL HE3
Group A - Critical Perspectives
- Theatres of War
- Theatre and Drama for the Young
- Stages of Terror
- Theatre and Landscape
- Globalisation and Performance
- Performance, Cultural Politics and Ethics
- Theatre and the Idea of Nation
- Performance, Gender and Sexuality
- Staging Multicultural Britain: Performance in a Postcolonial Perspective
- The Non-Human in Performance
- The Theatre Image
- Theatre and Religion
- Leisure Industries, Escape and Experience
- Document and Eyewitness: Drama, Law and Performance
- Theatre on the Move
- Food and Performance
Group B - Histories, Forms & Practices
- Drama of the 60’s Counter-culture
- Race Writes Representation
- Performance and Popular Culture
- Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance
- Performing the Real
- Performance in an Age of Hip Hop
- Romani/Gypsy Cultures in Performance
- Theatre Criticism
- Performance and Passing
- Shakespeare on Screen
Group C - Performance Laboratory
- Advanced Theatre Practices
- Text Workshop
- Performance and Strategies of Memory
- Performing Failure
- Performing Non-Fiction: Biographical Performance
- Performing Comedy
- Performance, Urbanism and the Everyday
Group D - Production
- Group Production Project
- Group Production Project
- Applied Theatre/Community Performance: Perspectives and Methods
- Work Placement
Group E - Research & Independent Study
- Performance Practice as Research
- Playwriting
- Dialogue, Conversation and Performance
- Performance Documentation
- Dissertation
- Extended Dissertation
Ungrouped module
Please note that not all courses are available every year.
