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
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
You must take the following modules:
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
Part 2 Rules
Year 1 Core (60 Credits)
Joint Honours Performance Studies students must take and must pass the following 3 modules:
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):
Year 1 Options
Joint Honours Performance Studies students may take 1 of the following modules:
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
ENGLISH - You must take the following module
Semester 1 EN20120 Reading Theory/reading Text 1
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:
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 TP20920 The Body In 20th Century Dance And Theatre
Semester 2 TP20720 Making Theatre Making History
Year 2 Options
Joint Honours Performance Studies students may also select from the following critical practice modules:
Semester 1 TP20620 Contemporary American Voices
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
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
Final Year Core (30 Credits)
ENGLISH - You must take the following module
Semester 1 EN30930 Reading Theory/ Reading Text
Final Year Options
ENGLISH - You should choose one module from the list below..
Semester 1 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 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
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Performance Studies students may take the following recommended modules:
Semester 2 TP33120 Theatre, Gender And Sexuality
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
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary