Study Schemes

BA German / Drama and Theatre Studies [RW24]

Academic Year: 2013/2014Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001 (Last intake year is 2011/2012)

Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Bursary;

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

GERMAN ADVANCED: you must take:

Semester 1
GE19900

German Language Advanced

Semester 2
GE19930

German Language Advanced

Year 1 Options

GERMAN BEGINNERS: you must take:

Semester 1
GE10700

German Language (beginners)

Semester 2
GE10740

German Language (beginners)

Year 1 Options

GERMAN ADVANCED: you must take either GE10910 or EL10610 and must also choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:

Semester 1
EL10500

Introduction To European Film

EL10610

Language In Society: An Introduction To Sociolinguistics

EL10800

Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe

EL10900

Images Of Europe: The European Imagination

GE10910

Ways Of Reading German Literature

Semester 2
EL10520

Introduction To European Film

EL10820

Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe

EL10920

Images Of Europe: The European Imagination

Year 1 Options

GERMAN BEGINNERS: you must choose 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:

Semester 1
EL10500

Introduction To European Film

EL10610

Language In Society: An Introduction To Sociolinguistics

EL10800

Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe

EL10900

Images Of Europe: The European Imagination

Semester 2
EL10520

Introduction To European Film

EL10820

Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe

EL10920

Images Of Europe: The European Imagination

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (30 Credits)

You must take:

Semester 1
GE20100

German Language

Semester 2
GE20130

German Language

Year 2 Options

You must choose 30 credits of the following Level 2 GE or EL modules but note that you cannot take both EL31900/20 and EL20500/10 in combination:

Semester 1
EL20500

Extended Essay Module

EL31900

Teaching English As A Foreign Language

GE20420

An Introduction To Variation In German

GE21010

The Language Of Economics

Semester 2
EL20510

Extended Essay Module

EL31920

Teaching English As A Foreign Language

GE27110

Short Prose In German

GE27220

German-speaking Refugees In Literature And Culture

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

Year 3 Core (60 Credits)

Your compulsory year Abroad modules for Drama

Semester 1
DRS0000

Abroad Year Dummy

Semester 2
DRS0060

Abroad Year Dummy

Year 3 Core (60 Credits)

On your compulsory year abroad your registration will be:

Semester 1
GES0000

Year Abroad Assessment

Semester 2
GES0060

Year Abroad Assessment

Final Year Core (30 Credits)

You must take:

Semester 1
GE30100

German Language

Semester 2
GE30130

German Language

Final Year Options

You must choose 30 credits of the following Level 3 GE or EL modules but note that you cannot take both EL31900/20 and EL30500/10 in combination:

Semester 1
EL30100

Dissertation

EL30500

Extended Essay Module

EL31900

Teaching English As A Foreign Language

GE30420

Language And Society In German-speaking Countries

GE31010

The Language Of German Politics

Semester 2
EL30120

Dissertation

EL30510

Extended Essay Module

EL31920

Teaching English As A Foreign Language

GE37020

Autobiography And Life Writing In German

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

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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