Study Schemes

BA Performance Studies / English Literature [QWH4]

Academic Year: 2013/2014Joint Honours scheme - available from 1998/1999 (Last intake year is 2013/2014)

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

You must take the following modules:

Semester 1
EN10020

Encountering Texts

Semester 2
EN10220

Ancestral Voices

Year 1 Options

You should take further level 1 modules totalling 80 credits from the list of modules approved by the Faculty of Arts. This may include further modules offered by the English Dept, listed below:

Semester 1
CL10120

Greek And Roman Epic And Drama

EN10120

Re-writing, Re-visioning Texts

EN11220

Introduction To American Literature And Culture

Semester 2
CL10320

History Of Greek And Roman Ideas

EN10520

Contemporary Writing

Part 2 Rules

Year 1 Core (60 Credits)

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

Semester 1
TP10120

Studying Theatre 1

TP10520

Performance Workshop

Semester 2
TP10220

Studying Theatre 2

Year 1 Options

Joint Honours Performance 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

Joint Honours Performance Studies students may take 1 of the following modules:

Semester 1
TP10320

Text Workshop

TP10420

Scenography Workshop

Semester 2

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

ENGLISH - You must take the following module

Semester 1
EN20120

Reading Theory/reading Text 1

Semester 2

Year 2 Options

You MUST take two of the following modules

Semester 1
EN20520

Medieval And Renaissance Writing

EN20720

Nineteenth Century Literature

Semester 2
EN20620

Restoration & Eighteenth Century Literature

EN20820

Twentieth Century British Literature

Year 2 Core (40 Credits)

Joint Honours Performance 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 Performance Studies students must take a minimum of one critical practice module. The following is a list of recommended modules for this scheme:

Semester 1
TP20420

Theatre In Society

TP20920

The Body In 20th Century Dance And Theatre

TP22320

Principles Of Scenography

Semester 2
TP20720

Making Theatre Making History

TP22520

Scenographic Composition

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Performance Studies students may also select from the following critical practice modules:

Semester 1
TP20320

Modern European Drama

TP20620

Contemporary American Voices

Semester 2
TP20520

English Drama 1950-1980

TP23220

Shakespeare In Performance

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Performance Studies students may take one of the following recommended creative practice modules (Joint Honours students within the Department of TFTS may not take more than 40 credits of creative practice modules during their Year 2 studies)

Semester 1
TP21620

Physical Theatre Vocabularies

TP22420

Process Of Scenography

Semester 2
TP22120

Performance Composition

TP24620

Voice In Performance

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Performance Studies students may alternatively select from the following creative practice modules (Joint Honours students within the Department of TFTS may not take more than 40 credits of creative practice modules during their Year 2 studies)

Semester 1
TP21220

Performing Dramatic Texts (semester 1)

TP21520

Theatre Management, Administration And Marketing

TP21720

Devising Theatre

Semester 2
TP21120

Improvisation

TP21420

Applied Theatre

TP21920

Technical Theatre

TP22020

Writing For Theatre

TP22620

Theatre Design Project

Final Year Core (30 Credits)

ENGLISH - You must take the following module

Semester 1
EN30930

Reading Theory/ Reading Text

Semester 2

Final Year Options

ENGLISH - You should choose one module from the list below..

Semester 1
EN31000

Undergraduate Dissertation

EN31430

Elizabethan Drama: Hieronimo To Hamlet

EN32830

The Years Between: Women's Fiction, 1918-1939

EN36330

Heroes+dragon Slayers:literature At End Of First Millennium

Semester 2
EN31030

Undergraduate Dissertation

EN31830

Haunting Texts: Victorian And Modern Ghost Stories

EN34030

Poetry But Not As We Know It-uk Poetry Since 70s-remapping

EN34730

Detective And Crime Fiction

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Performance Studies students may take the following module:

Semester 1
TP33940

Advanced Production Project

Semester 2

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Performance Studies students may take the following recommended modules:

Semester 1
TP32720

Performance Writing

TP33820

New Media Performance

TP36000

Dissertation

Semester 2
TP32820

Place, Space And Landscape

TP33120

Theatre, Gender And Sexuality

TP33320

Documenting Performance

TP36040

Dissertation

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Performance Studies students within the Department of TFTS may also choose from the following modules (provided they have successfully completed TP33940):

Semester 2
TP34040

Independent Production Project

TP34240

Applied Theatre Project

TP34340

Solo Performance Project

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
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  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
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  • Aberystwyth Bursary
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