IELTS 6.0 overall with minimum 5.5 in each skill
Join an exciting and challenging Drama & English Literature degree that will help you become a future industry leader. Develop the skills for Creative Arts, Performing Arts or literary careers.
On our innovative Drama and English Literature degree, you'll be taught by world-leading academics and theatre practitioners. You spend half of your time at the Bathway Theatre - a specialist drama facility with six studios and a flexible theatre space - and half at Greenwich Maritime campus.
As part of this course, you'll study literature, visual narratives, fiction and poetry. You can hone your performance skills through large-scale public productions and create your own Theatre Company in the final year.
Our 4-year 'sandwich' mode includes a professional practice year where you can work with one of our industry partners or study abroad in the USA.
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Year 1
Students are required to study the following compulsory modules.
Literary Forms of Representation (30 credits)
Critical Contexts for Performance (30 credits)
Documentary Theatre (30 credits)
The Canon: A Short History of Western Literature (30 credits)
Year 2
Students are required to study the following compulsory modules.
Prose Fiction in Context (30 credits)
Stage Production (30 credits)
Site Performance (30 credits)
Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options.
American Fictions (30 credits)
International Bestsellers (30 credits)
Shakespeare, Then and Now (30 credits)
Work Placement (Level 5) (30 credits)
Year 3
Students are required to study the following compulsory modules.
Literature and Publishing Since 1820 (30 credits)
Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options.
The Literature of the Gothic (30 credits)
English in World Literatures: Postcolonial and Transnational Writing (30 credits)
Contemporary Writing and Critical Theory (30 credits)
Britain on the Modern Stage (30 credits)
Dissertation (LLT) (30 credits)
Modern Identities: Literature of the Global Eighteenth Century (30 credits)
Work Placement (Level 6) (30 credits)
Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options.
Directing for Theatre (30 credits)
Theatre and Young Audiences (30 credits)
Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options.
Theatre Company (30 credits)
Solo Performance (30 credits)
The skills you acquire through studying our courses will prepare you for careers in a wide range of industries and jobs. Many graduates of this course go on to careers in theatre, socially engaged drama, publishing, and arts administration.
Insurance - Single: 300 (£) per year