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BA (Hons) English Literature and Theatre, Acting & Performance

University of Worcester, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

In combination, Theatre, Acting & Performance, and English Literature provide you with an opportunity to develop your practical experience and academic study of making and presenting theatre alongside the wider academic study of plays and other literary forms written in English. As you progress, you may choose to select modules that maintain a deliberately wide-ranging approach. Alternatively, however, you can hone and focus on your own interests, creating opportunities to develop more specialist complementary, extended projects across the two subject areas. Both subject areas aim to support your understanding of the range of possibilities that could be available to you on graduation and, as well as the option to undertake work placements, there are opportunities to explore postgraduate study and to investigate, with those who are already working in them, career paths in teaching, the creative and cultural industries and other employment sectors in which graduates of theatre and English literature courses find work.

General Eligibility

104 UCAS Tariff points

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Mandatory:

  • Devising and Physical Theatre

  • Plays in Performance

  • Literary Forms and Genres

  • Ways of Reading, Ways of Writing

  • Writing Worcester Past and Present

2 Year 2

Mandatory:

  • Exploding the Canon: Literary Theory and Practice

  • Acting for Stage, Screen & Media

Optional:

  • Directed Public Performance

  • Creative Movement Practices

  • Applied Theatre Practices

  • Performance & Digital Media

  • Playwriting

  • Musical Theatre

  • Movement and Migration

  • Politics, Sex, and Identity in the Early Modern World

  • Shakespeare: Stage, Page and Screen

  • Gothic and Romantic Literature

  • Spaces of Modernity

  • Children’s Literature

  • Work Project

3 Year 3

Mandatory:

  • Independent Research Project or Final Performance Project

Optional;

  • Professional Practice with Placement

  • Theatre & Disability

  • Queer Theatre & Performance

  • Theatre & Education

  • Immersive & Site-responsive Performance

  • Writing for Performance

  • Advanced Acting Practices

  • Staging Shakespeare Today

  • Justice and Revenge: from Tragedy to the Western

  • Postcolonial Encounters

  • Writing and the Environment

  • War and Conflict

  • Gendering Voices

  • Partnerships and Rivalries

  • Literature and Cultures: International Explorations

  • Queer Bodies, Queer Texts

  • Literature and Culture – Local Heritage

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69

The IELTS score for international applicants is 6.0 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).

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