Modules

**First year**
Block 1: Theatre Company: Ensemble
Block 2: Body, Text, Voice
Block 3: Shifting Stages OR you can select to study one route from the list below:
Creative Writing route – Writers Salon
Education route – Childhood, Social Justice and Education
English Language route - Evolving Language
English Literature route – Introduction to Drama: Shakespeare
Film Studies route – Disney, Warner Bros and the Business of the Film Studio
History route – Global Cities
Journalism route – Understanding Journalism
Media route - Media, Culture and Society
Block 4: Participations

**Second year**
Block 1: Engaging Audiences
Block 2: Making Theatre and Performance
Block 3: Theatre Revolutions OR continue with the route selected in the first year:
Creative Writing route – Story Craft
Education route – Preparing for Professional Practice and Cultural and Educational Transformations
English Language route - Sociolinguistics
English Literature route - Text Technologies
Film Studies route – Screen Archives - Preservation, Conservation and Usage
History route – Humans and the Natural World
Journalism route – Beyond News: Peace journalism and Opinion Writing
Media route – Public Relations and Strategic Communication
Block 4: Theatre Company: Collaboration OR Curve Company 1

**Third year**
Blocks 1 and 2: Select two from the list below:
Live Art
Staging Texts
Theatre Company: Production
Education and Performing Arts
Block 3: Performance, Identity and Activism OR continue with the route selected in the first year:
Creative Writing route – Uncreative Writing, Creative Misbehavior
Education route – Adult Learners and Lifelong Learning OR Gender and Education
English Language route – Language and Identity
English Literature route – World Englishes: On the page and Beyond
Film Studies route – British Cinema - Creativity, Independents and Interdependence
History route – The World on Display
Journalism route – Music, Film and Entertainment Journalism
Media route – Gender and TV Fictions
Block 4: Final Project OR Curve Company 2

Assessment methods

**Structure**
You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, tutor and student led seminars, group work, practical workshops and self-directed study. You will be assessed through a variety of different methods to develop a range of skills including through critical essays, group and individual performances, group and individual presentations, oral vivas, creative portfolios and critical self-reflections and commentaries.

The first year provides you with a range of practical skills and combines performance-based understanding of texts with a theoretical approach that enables you to place your work in its historical context. In your second year you will develop your practical, professional and theoretical engagement, with the opportunity to perform at Curve theatre in a production. In your third year you can pursue your own interests and career aspirations by taking specialist modules. Your studies will culminate in a final project of your choosing or the opportunity to perform at Curve theatre in a production.

Our drama staff have expertise in a number of different fields, including: Shakespeare in performance, popular theatre, applied drama, directing, language and performance, performer training, performance and documentation, performance and the body, gender and performance, live art and contemporary performance practice. Visiting lecturers, actors, practitioners, directors and theatre companies further enhance your learning.

**Contact hours**
In your first year you will normally attend around 12 hours of timetabled taught sessions each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 25 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research.

Tuition fees

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