* placement year fee
Explore different modes of performance and drama practice and develop skills for the stage and screen, with our BA (Hons) Drama degree in Cambridge.
With our BA (Hons) Drama degree, we’ll help you to grow into a confident, versatile and exciting drama practitioner with transferable skills to suit the field you want to work in.
With a strong focus on performance, you’ll get to work on public productions as well as smaller-scale projects, exploring practices from the 20th century onwards and devising your own productions.
We’ll encourage you to create innovative and daring performance practice as you develop expertise in group collaboration alongside your own solo performances. You’ll also get the chance to weight your studies to suit your interests, be that drama practice, specialising in backstage production or even theatre administration.
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
Studio Performance
Staging and Production
Theatre Analysis
Production Skills
Applied Drama
Year two, core modules
Making Performance
Community Theatre Performance
Practice as Research
Physical Theatre
Principles of Dramatherapy
Professional Theatre Practice 1
Performing Shakespeare
Scenes and Shorts
Year three
Year four, core modules
Major Project
Festival of Performance
Site Specific and Immersive Theatre
TV Drama Production
Professional Theatre Practice 2
Workshop Facilitation
Provocations
Not only will you develop your performance skills during your time at ARU, our BA (Hons) Drama degree will give you practical experience as stage technician, and the academic understanding you need 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
