Study Schemes

BA Performance Studies / Education [XW34]

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

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Options

OPTIONAL MODULES (20 CREDITS). You can take up to 20 credits from the following modules.

Semester 1
ED10410

Working With Play

ED10620

Early Years Provision: Principles And Practice

ED11710

Study Skills

Semester 2
ED10810

Introduction To Working With Groups

ED11510

Play In Practice

Year 1 Options

CORE MODULES (60 CREDITS). You must take either the ED or the AD modules

Semester 1
AD10120

Polisiau A Materion Mewn Addysg

ED10120

Policies And Issues In Education

Semester 2
AD11320

Plant Ifainc Yn Dysgu

AD19220

Datblygiad Plant

ED10220

Child Development

ED11320

Young Children Learning

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)

CORE MODULE (20 CREDITS). You must take:

Semester 1
ED20120

Psychology Of Learning And Thinking

Semester 2

Year 2 Options

OPTIONAL MODULES : You must take 20/40-60 credits, ensuring a total of 100-140 credits over the 2nd and final years, from:

Semester 1
ED20220

Literacy In Young Children

ED20320

Research Methods

Semester 2
ED20420

Cultural Diversity In Education

ED20520

Bilingual Education

ED20820

Making Sense Of The Curriculum

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 (20 Credits)

CORE MODULE (20 CREDITS- THIS IS A MUST PASS MODULE). You must take:

Semester 1
ED30120

Critically Reflecting And Evaluating Learning And Skills

Semester 2

Final Year Options

OPTIONAL MODULES : You must take 20/40-60 credits, ensuring a total of 100-140 credits over the 2nd and final years, from

Semester 1
AD39200

Major Dissertation

ED30320

Mathematical Development In The Early Years

ED30500

Health And Education

ED32320

Language And Gender

ED39200

Major Dissertation

Semester 2
AD39220

Major Dissertation

ED30420

Special Educational Needs

ED30520

Health And Education

ED30620

Children's Rights

ED33020

Communicating Science: The Scientists, The Media And The Public

ED39220

Major Dissertation

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
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary