Study Schemes

BA Drama and Theatre Studies / Politics [LWFK]

Academic Year: 2013/2014Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; The Coleg Lead Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (60 Credits)

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre Studies students must take and must pass the following 3 modules:

Semester 1
TP10120

Studying Theatre 1

TP10320

Text Workshop

Semester 2
TP10220

Studying Theatre 2

Year 1 Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre Studies students may take 1 of the following modules:

Semester 1
TP10420

Scenography Workshop

TP10520

Performance Workshop

Semester 2

Year 1 Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre Studies students registered for schemes within the Theatre Curriculum Group may take the following (this module is not open to students registered for joint schemes outside the Theatre Curriculum Group):

Semester 2
TP10640

Production Project

Year 1 Options

Part One students MUST TAKE and PASS 40 credits worth of Part One modules from the Department of International Politics

Semester 1
GW10420

Cyflwyniad I Wleidyddiaeth Ryngwladol

GW11220

Defnyddio Syniadau Gwleidyddol

GW12320

Gwleidyddiaeth Y Byd Yng Nghyfnod Y Ddau Ryfel Byd

IP10420

Introduction To International Politics

IP12220

Revolution And Continuity In Political Philosophy

IP12320

World Politics In The Age Of The Two World Wars

Semester 2
GW10320

Rhyfel Strategaeth A Chuddwybodaeth

GW10620

Cyflwyniad I Wleidyddiaeth Ryngwladol Y Trydydd Byd

GW11120

Cymru Yn Ewrop

IP10320

War, Strategy And Intelligence

IP10620

Power And Inequality In The Third World

IP12120

Politics In Europe

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (40 Credits)

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre Studies Students must take the following 2 core modules and must pass at least one of them:

Semester 1
TP30120

Analysing Performance

Semester 2
TP30220

Key Theatre Practices

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre Studies Students may take up to 2 of the following critical practice modules:

Semester 1
TP20320

Modern European Drama

TP20420

Theatre In Society

TP20620

Contemporary American Voices

TP20920

The Body In 20th Century Dance And Theatre

TP22320

Principles Of Scenography

Semester 2
TP20520

English Drama 1950-1980

TP20720

Making Theatre Making History

TP21020

Contemporary European Theatre

TP22520

Scenographic Composition

TP23220

Shakespeare In Performance

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre Studies Students may take up to 2 of the following creative practice modules: JOINT HONOURS STUDENTS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF TFTS MAY NOT TAKE MORE THAN 2 CREATIVE PRACTICE MODULES DURING THEIR YEAR 2 STUDIES

Semester 1
TP21220

Performing Dramatic Texts (semester 1)

TP21520

Theatre Management, Administration And Marketing

TP21620

Physical Theatre Vocabularies

TP21720

Devising Theatre

TP22420

Process Of Scenography

Semester 2
TP21120

Improvisation

TP21420

Applied Theatre

TP21820

Directing Text

TP21920

Technical Theatre

TP22020

Writing For Theatre

TP22120

Performance Composition

TP22620

Theatre Design Project

TP24620

Voice In Performance

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre Studies students may take 1 of the following modules (please note that the choice of Advanced Production Project will depend on other timetable commitments):

Semester 1
TP33940

Advanced Production Project

TP34140

Playwriting (semester 1)

TP36000

Dissertation

Semester 2
TP34640

Playwriting (semester 2)

TP36040

Dissertation

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre Studies students may take their remaining credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP32720

Performance Writing

TP33520

Documentary Theatre

TP33720

Postcolonial Theatre

TP33820

New Media Performance

Semester 2
TP32820

Place, Space And Landscape

TP33120

Theatre, Gender And Sexuality

TP33220

Shakespeare In Performance

TP33320

Documenting Performance

TP33620

Staging Identity, Staging Sexuality

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre Studies students from within the Theatre Curriculum Group may take ONE of the following modules (These modules are not available to Joint Honours Students outside of the Department of TFTS):

Semester 1
TP34140

Playwriting (semester 1)

Semester 2
TP34040

Independent Production Project

TP34240

Applied Theatre Project

TP34340

Solo Performance Project

Available both years Options

Students must TAKE and PASS one of the following degree scheme core modules before being eligible for graduation (please note - a choice of three modules is offered over Part Two of the degree) - please see below for those offered this year:

Semester 1
GW32220

Damcaniaethau Gwleidyddiaeth

GW35020

Cymru A Datganoli

IP32220

Political Theory

IP35020

Wales And Devolution

Semester 2
GW33820

Gwleidyddiaeth Ewropeaidd

IP33820

European Politics

Available both years Options

Students must take 120 of their 240 credits in Part Two (year 2 & final year) in International Politics dept; and should also take 120 credits in their `home' department (usually 60 credits from each per year) -including core module credits

Semester 1
GW35320

Rhyfela Wedi Waterloo: Hanes Milwrol 1815-1918

GW37720

Damcaniaethau Amlddiwylliannedd

IP31420

Twenty-first Century Warfare

IP33720

The Making Of National Security Policy

IP34520

Responding To Terror

IP35320

Warfare After Waterloo: Military History 1815 - 1918

IP36620

Democracy Promotion In World Politics

IP36920

America At War: A Military History Of The United States

IP37020

Social Movements And World Politics

IP37720

Theories Of Multiculturalism

IP38220

The Evolution Of American Foreign Policy

IP39520

Islam, Foreign Policy And The Developing World

IP39620

Women In The Third World

Semester 2
GW30120

Damcaniaethau Gwleidyddiaeth Ryngwladol Heddiw

IP30120

International Political Theory Today

IP30420

International Politics And The Nuclear Age

IP30620

Famine

IP34320

The Ethics Of War In Theory And Practice

IP35720

De Gaulle's France (1919 - 1970)

IP36220

Global Crime And Transnational Policing: Emerging Practices

IP36420

The Second World War In Europe

IP37120

International Peacekeeping And Ethnic Warfare

IP37520

Us And Uk Special Relations

IP39220

The Third World In International Politics

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary