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Programme Requirements for 2025/26 Session


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B.A. Drama and English Literature Full-time

Year: 3
2025/26 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

Core modules:

Optional modules:

Drama Block A:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH 21st Century British Theatre: New Writing 09 29415 20 Semester 1
LH Alexander Technique for Performers 09 27132 20 Semester 1
LH Gender in Theatre and Performance: The Queerest Art 09 29612 20 Semester 1

Drama Block B:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Contemporary Practice 10 27424 20 Semester 1
LH Directing 09 34356 20 Semester 1

Drama Block C

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Popular Music as Performance 09 30684 20 Semester 2
LH Theatre, Philosophy and Emotion 09 30979 20 Semester 2
LH Victorian Drama 09 25042 20 Semester 1

Drama Block D

Production Modules

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Production Module 1 10 21887 40 Semester 1
LH Production Module 2 09 35378 40 Semester 1
LH Production Module 3 09 35379 40 Semester 2
LH Production Module 4 09 35380 40 Semester 2

English Literature Block A:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Islamophobia and the Novel 09 30677 20 Semester 2
LH Last Year's Novels 09 26673 20 Semester 1
LH Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985 09 30635 20 Semester 1
LH Paradise Lost: Text and context 09 21681 20 Semester 1
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies 09 26835 20 Semester 1

English Literature Block B:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH American Frontiers: Nation and Identity in the Nineteenth Century 09 29639 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 2
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 Decoding Pop Culture 09 37089 20 Semester 2
LH Elizabeth I and her Poets 09 30616 20 Semester 2
LH Fantastic Beasts and Where They Came From 09 30620 20 Semester 2
LH From Plato to the Postmodern: Theories of Literature and Art 09 29643 20 Semester 1
LH Hidden Romanticism 09 36982 20 Semester 1
LH Law and Literature 09 24813 20 Semester 2
LH Single Author: Virginia Woolf 09 37163 20 Semester 2

English Literature Block D:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH After the Deluge: Writing and Recovery after the First World War 09 30646 20 Semester 2
LH Fantasy and fandom: writing back to the medieval in modern fantasy 09 22837 20 Semester 2
LH Modern American Poetry 09 29542 20 Semester 2
LH Muslim Women's Popular Fiction 09 31944 20 Semester 2
LH Senses of the Past: Historical Fiction in the Long Nineteenth Century 09 28666 20 Semester 1

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