Study Schemes

BA Drama and Theatre Studies / History [WV41]

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 Core (60 Credits)

The following modules are compulsory

Year 1 Options

You must take one of these modules

Semester 1
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

HY12120

Introduction To History

Semester 2

Year 1 Options

Students must take a minimum of two options

Semester 1
HA10820

Argyfwng, Gwrthryfel A Ffydd Yn Ewrop C.1000-1540

HC11220

Grym, Protest A Chymdeithas Yng Nghymru Fodern 1850 -1997

HY12720

Three Queens And Their Subjects

HY14020

The Making Of The American Nation 1783-2000

WH11420

Wales In An Age Of Revolution, 1770-1850

Semester 2
HA10620

Y Dirwasgiad Mawr: Hanes Cymharol America A Phrydain

HA13820

Oes Y Fictoriaid

HC11120

Concwest, Uno A Hunaniaeth Yng Nghymru 1250-1800

HY11920

Stuart England: War, Political Crisis And Social Change 1629-1714

HY13220

Britain And The First World War

WH11120

Conquest, Union And Identity In Wales 1250-1800

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Options

Path A. 60 credits of the History Options List

Year 2 Options

Path B. You must take HA or HY30510 OR HA or HY 30610, one 20 credit History Survey Module and one 30 credit History Option module

Semester 1
HA30510

Haneswyr Ac Ysgrifennu Hanes Ia

HY30510

Historians And The Writing Of History 1

Semester 2
HA30610

Haneswyr Ac Ysgrifennu Hanes Ib

HY30610

Historians & The Writing Of History 1b

Year 2 Options

Path C. You must take HY30020 or HA30020, one 20 credit History Survey Module and one 20 credit History Skills Module.

Semester 1
HA30000

Haneswyr Ac Ysgrifennu Hanes

HY30000

Historians And The Writing Of History 2

Semester 2
HA30020

Haneswyr Ac Ysgrifennu Hanes

HY30020

Historians And The Writing Of History 2

Year 2 Options

SURVEY MODULES

Semester 1
HA31820

Concro’r Byd: TŴf A Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain A Ffrainc

HY31620

War & Society In History

HY32020

The British Isles In The Long Eighteenth Century

Semester 2

Year 2 Options

SKILLS MODULES

Semester 2
HA33320

Hanes Ar Y Teledu

HY32220

The Ottoman Empire And Early Modern Travel Writing

HY32320

Studying Cuban History Through Film

HY32520

Oral History: The Past In The Present

HY32720

Investigating Georgian And Victorian Landscapes

HY32820

Myth & History In The Viking Age: Saga & Society In Medieval Iceland

HY33320

History On Television

HY33420

History As Myth-making: The 'myth Of The Blitz'

HY33520

Germans And Nazism Since 1933: Reading Public Opinion Surveys, Diaries And Memoirs

HY34020

Medieval Chronicles: Historical Writing In The British Isles 540-1300

HY34620

Exploring Nineteenth-century Exhibitions

HY34820

Early Modernity In Film

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

Final year students must take two History Option modules

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

OPTIONS LIST

Semester 1
HA37430

Diwylliant, Cymdeithas A'r Fictoriaid: Bywydau Cyhoeddus A Phreifat

HC34230

Hunaniaethau Cenedlaethol Yn Ynysoedd Prydain 1801-1914

HC35230

Twf Cymdeithas Drefol: Cymru 1750 - 2000

HY35430

Community And Identity In Late Medieval England, 1200-1500

HY35930

The Atlantic World, 1500 -1800

HY36430

From Black Death To The Great Fire: The British Town 1349-1700

HY37430

Culture, Society And The Victorians: Public And Private Lives

HY38230

Weimar Germany:making+breaking Of German Democracy,1914-1933

WH33330

Crime, Riot And Morality In Wales, 1750-1850

Semester 2
HA35130

Cymdeithas Ewrop A'r Meddwl Canoloesol 1200-1500

HC33330

Trosedd, Terfysg A Moesoldeb 1750-1850

HY35230

Age Of The Crusades:west & East 1070-1291

HY36230

The British Isles And The 'english' Revolution

HY38630

European Society In The Cold War Era, 1945-1989

WH32130

Conflict & Coexistence: From The Normans To Owain Glyn Dwr

WH35230

The Growth Of An Urban Society: Wales 1750-2000

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