Programme Requirements for 2027/28 Session


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B.A. Drama with English Literature with Year in Civic Leadership Full-time

Year: 4
2027/28 Session

Student Options:

Students taking 80 credits in Drama and 40 credits in English Literature.
All students must take the 40 credit Drama Dissertation AND one Option (of 1-4):
Option 1
• Production Module – semester 1
• One module from English Literature Block C
• One module from English Literature Block D
Option 2
• Production Module – semester 2
• One module from English Literature Block A
• One module from English Literature Block
Option 3
• One module from Drama Block A
• One module from Drama Block D
• One module from English Literature Block A or Block B • One module from English Literature Block C or Block D Option 4 • One module from Drama Block B • One module from Drama Block C • One module from English Literature Block A or Block B
• One module from English Literature Block C or Block D


Students taking 60 credits in Drama and 60 credits in English Literature (choose from Option 5-10)
Option 5
• English Literature Dissertation
• One module from English Literature Block C or Block D
• One module from Drama Block A
• One module from Drama Block B
• One module from Drama Block C or Block D
Option 6
• English Literature Dissertation
• One module from English Literature Block C or Block D
• Production Semester 1
• One module from Drama Block C
Option 7 • English Literature Dissertation • One module from English Literature Block A or Block B • One module from Drama Block A or Block B • One module from Drama Block C • One module from Drama Block D
Option 8
• English Literature Dissertation
• One module from English Literature Block A or Block B
• Production Module – Semester 2
• One module from Drama Block A
Option 9
• Drama Dissertation
• One module from Drama Block A or Block B
• One module from English Literature Block A or Block B
• One module from Drama Block C
• One module from Drama Block D
Option 10
• Drama Dissertation
• One module from Drama Block C or Block D
• One module from English Literature Block A • One module from English Literature Block B • One module from English Literature Block C or Block D

Students taking 40 credits in Drama and 80 credits in English Literature. All students must take the 40 credit English Literature Dissertation AND one option (from option 11-14)
Option 11
• One module from Drama Block A
• One module from Drama Block D
• One module from English Literature Block A or Block B
• One module from English Literature Block C or Block D
Option 12
• One module from Drama Block B
• One module from Drama Block C
• One module from English Literature Block A or Block B
• One module from English Literature Block C or Block D
Option 13
• Production Module – Semester 1
• One module from English Literature Block C
• One module from English Literature Block D
Option 14
• Production Module – Semester 2
• One module from English Literature Block A
• One module from English Literature Block B

Dissertation modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Dissertation in Drama 10 41151 40 Full Term
LH Dissertation in English Literature 09 27043 40 Full Term
LH Practical Project in Drama 10 41149 40 Full Term

Optional modules:

Drama Block A:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH The Creative and Cultural Industries 10 39932 20 Semester 1

Drama Block B:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Experience Design: Approaches to audience activation, inclusion and participation. 10 39919 20 Semester 1

Drama Block C

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Alexander Technique for Performers 10 38068 20 Semester 2
LH Popular Music as Performance 09 30684 20 Semester 2

Drama Block D

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Creative Partnerships: Site-based Performance 10 39933 20 Semester 2

Production Modules

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Production Module 1 10 21887 40 Semester 2
LH Production Module 3 09 35379 40 Semester 2

English Literature Block A:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH From Plato to the Postmodern: Theories of Literature and Art 09 29643 20 Semester 2
LH Hidden Romanticism 09 36982 20 Semester 2
LH Interactivity: The Theory and Practice of Getting Stuck In 09 37899 20 Semester 1
LH Last Year's Novels 09 26673 20 Semester 1
LH The Art of Translation 09 32243 20 Semester 1

English Literature Block B:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH American Frontiers: Nation and Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century 09 40689 20 Semester 1
LH Bedtime Stories: Reading Children’s Picture Books 09 37165 20 Semester 2
LH Bringing Out the Bodies: Technology, Transhumans and Skin 09 27598 20 Semester 1
LH Interactivity: The Theory and Practice of Getting Stuck In 09 37899 20 Semester 1
LH Making Global Literatures in Britain 09 30727 20 Semester 2
LH Remembering World War One 09 26674 20 Semester 1
LH The Art of Translation 09 32243 20 Semester 1
LH The Work of Giants: Old English Tales and their Afterlives in Fiction and Film 09 37091 20 Semester 2

English Literature Block C

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Bringing Out the Bodies: Technology, Transhumans and Skin 09 27598 20 Semester 1
LH Fantasy and fandom: writing back to the medieval in modern fantasy 09 22837 20 Semester 1
LH Islamophobia and the Novel 09 30677 20 Semester 2
LH Jane Austen’s Fiction 09 39772 20 Semester 2
LH Literary Ecologies: Environmental Crisis in American Writing 09 39959 20 Semester 1

English Literature Block D:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Chaucer: Key Works 09 38956 20 Semester 2
LH Daphne du Maurier: Horror, Romance & Obsession 09 39133 20 Semester 2
LH Making Global Literatures in Britain 09 30727 20 Semester 2
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies 09 26835 20 Semester 2
LH Single Author: Virginia Woolf 09 37163 20 Semester 2
LH The Figure of the Witch: Witch Writings c. 1400-1700 09 37352 20 Semester 2

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. If successful this will be taken in place of one of their semester 1 taught modules. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full-time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation. Students who undertook a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. Professional Skills Modules: Students taking the Professional Skills Module must also be taking at least 40 credits in English Literature and at least 40 credits in Drama. Professional Skills Modules: It is not permissible to only take the Dissertation in one subject.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Professional Skills 09 36876 20 Semester 1
LH Professional Skills - Freelance 09 37013 20 Semester 1