* placement year fee
Performing is at the core of our Drama and English Literature degree at ARU.
Grow into a confident, versatile and exciting drama practitioner, while exploring classic literature and genres ranging from sci-fi to children’s books.
You’ll work on public-productions and smaller-scale projects, exploring drama practices and texts from the 20th century onwards as well as working on original pieces. Alongside this, you’ll explore many other subjects including history, politics, philosophy and religion as well as developing your literacy and communication skills.
Your deeper understanding of literary texts will improve your ability to interpret dramatic texts and your performance skills.
Our BA (Hons) Drama and English Literature degree lets you weight your studies to your own interests and career goals. Prepare for a career in the arts or fields such as teaching – and get ready to change the way others see the world.
You can choose to study this course with 2 options: 3 years or 4 years with a placement year
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Year one, core modules
A History of English Literature 1: Writing Matters
A History of English Literature 2: Reading Literature and Theory
Studio Performance
Staging and Production
Year two, core modules
Reading Beyond Britain
The European Novel: Desire and Transgression
Making Performance
Ruskin Module
Community Theatre Performance
Writing World War One: Trauma, Memory, Resistance
Science Fiction
Romantic Conflicts
Principles of Dramatherapy
Physical Theatre
Victorian Literature and Culture
Dialogue and Debate: More to Milton
Modernism and the City
Performing Shakespeare
Practice as Research
Scenes and Shorts
Anglia Language Programme
Year three
Year four, core modules
Major Project
Festival of Performance
Spectacle and Representation in Renaissance Drama
Elizabeth Gaskell and the Brontës
Renaissance Magic
Site Specific and Immersive Theatre
TV Drama Production
Working with English
Literature and Exile: Displacement, Identity, Self
Romantic Ideals
Contemporary Fiction
New Media Discourse
Theorising Children's Literature
Workshop Facilitation
Provocations
Our Drama and English Literature BA (Hons) degree will give you practical experience as a performer or technician, and the academic understanding to be a director or a teacher.
We work with employers to make sure you graduate with the knowledge, skills and abilities they need. They help us review what we teach and how we teach it – and they offer hands-on, practical opportunities to learn through work-based projects, internships or placements.
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
