Programmes & Modules Handbook

B.A. Drama and English Full-time

Year: 2
2023/24 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Texts in Rehearsal	10 37840	20	Semester 1

Students will be required to choose either one module from Block A and one module from Block D or one module from Block B and one module from Block C

Block A

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Performance and Nation	09 30683	20	Semester 1
LI Politics, Crisis and Performance	10 36198	20	Semester 1
LI Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy	09 37673	20	Semester 1

Block B

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Alexander Technique for Performers	10 38981	20	Semester 1
LI Approaches to Acting	10 37836	20	Semester 1

Block C

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI British Theatre	10 29000	20	Semester 2
LI Popular Performance	09 25150	20	Semester 2

Block D

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Alexander Technique for Performers	10 38982	20	Semester 2
LI Approaches to Acting	09 37850	20	Semester 2
LI Immersion & Interactivity in Performance	09 34882	20	Semester 2

Optional Modules

Students should choose two modules from the Histories Histories of Literature options available, one per semester. Any restrictions relating to which Histories of Literature modules must be taken together will be provided to students during the module allocation process. An indicative list of Histories of Literature options is provided below:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Decadents and Moderns	09 36227	20	Semester 2
LI Literature 1950-Present	09 36230	20	Semester 2
LI Popular Fiction Before the Novel	09 37896	20	Semester 1
LI Renaissance Poetry	09 36225	20	Semester 1
LI Restoration and Revolution	09 36228	20	Semester 1
LI Romantics and Victorians	09 36226	20	Semester 2

Students will choose 20 credits from the Themes in Literature list or Shakespeare. The modules listed below are indicative of what may be available.

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Colonial/Postcolonial A	09 33252	10	Semester 1
LI Colonial/Postcolonial B	09 33254	10	Semester 2
LI Digital Futures A	09 33258	10	Semester 1
LI Digital Futures B	09 33260	10	Semester 2
LI Rags and Riches: Wealth and Poverty in American Literature and Culture A	09 33266	10	Semester 1
LI Rags and Riches: Wealth and Poverty in American Literature and Culture B	09 33268	10	Semester 2
LI Shakespeare: Elizabethan	09 33587	10	Semester 1
LI Shakespeare: Jacobean	09 33588	10	Semester 2
LI The Gothic A	09 33274	10	Semester 1
LI The Gothic B	09 33277	10	Semester 2
LI The Uses of Genre: Nefarious Plots, Cheap Thrills, and the Search for Meaning A	09 33589	10	Semester 1
LI The Uses of Genre: Nefarious Plots, Cheap Thrills, and the Search for Meaning B	09 33590	10	Semester 2