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BA (Hons) Drama and English Literature

University of Kent, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Throughout your studies, you learn to think critically and to work independently; your communication skills improve and you learn to express your opinions passionately and persuasively, both in writing and orally. These key transferable skills are essential for graduates as they move into the employment market.

The Department has developed partnerships with some of the major players in theatre in the UK including: Battersea Arts Centre, the RSC and The Gate. Selected programmes offer you the opportunity to go on work placements which can lead to future full-time employment. The range of modules we offer ensures you develop key skills such as planning and organization, teamworking, adaptability and leadership.

General Eligibility

Five passes at GCSE grade C (or grade 4) or above, including English Language or Use of English (IGCSE English as a Second Language, grade B or grade 6), and at least two subjects at A level

OR

Three passes at GCE A level and a pass at grade C (or grade 4) or above in GCSE English Language or Use of English.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Making Performance 1

Making Performance 2

Changing Literatures: From Chaucer to the Contemporary

Thinking Through Theory

2 Year 2

Disability and the Arts

Photography: Contexts of Practice

Acting

Popular Performance

Introduction to Musical Theatre Dance

Theatre and Adaptation

Sex, Gender and Performance: Beyond the Binary

Reading Victorian Literature

The Contemporary

Novelty, Enlightenment and Emancipation: 18th Century Literature

Modernism

Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama

Empire, New Nations and Migration

Chaucer and Late Medieval English Literature

American Modernities: US Literature in the 20th Century

Interactive and Immersive Fictions

Perceptions, Pathologies, Disorders: Reading and Writing Mental Health

3 Year 3

Independent Project

Arts Internship

Psychology of the Arts

Performing Lives: Theory, Practice & Writing of Auto/biographical Theatre

Community and Participatory Theatre

Acting Shakespeare

Physical Theatre: Ensemble Devising

Stand Up Comedy

Creative Project

Directing Theatre, Staging Ideas

Charles Dickens and Victorian England

Postcolonial Writing

The Project (English)

LGBTQ Narratives: Queer Writing from Britain and Ireland

ShakeRace: Shakespeare and Racial Politics

The Unknown: Reading and Writing Creative Non-Fiction and Autofiction

Bodies of Evidence: Reading the Body in Eighteenth Century Literature

Places, Journeys, Borders

American Crime Fiction

Cross-Cultural Coming-of-Age Narratives

Virginia Woolf

Animals, Humans, Writing

The New Woman: 1880-1920

A Woman's Tale: Writing Female Identity and Experience in Medieval Europe

Poetry Beyond Text: Image, Installation, Performance

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

IELTS (including IELTS Indicator) 6.5 overall (with a minimum of 6.0 in R&W; 5.5 in S&L)

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