Prospective Undergraduate Students
Click on the following links for full information on the undergraduate courses available at Aberystwyth University:
- Drama and Theatre Studies
- Film and Television Studies
- Performance Studies
- Scenography and Theatre Design
- Media and Communication Studies
- Welsh Medium Courses
For more information about applying and about studying at Aberystwyth in general please go to:
- Applications and Admissions
- Entry Requirements
- How To Apply
- Funding Information
- Student Life
- International Students
Visiting Aberystwyth and the Department
Essential Reading lists for prospective first year students
Theatre Studies curriculum group
Balme, Christopher. The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Schechner, Richard. Performance Studies: An Introduction. Routledge, 2002
Worthen, W. B. The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama. London: Wadsworth CENGAGE Learning, 2004. Look here at sections on Aristotle’s Poetics, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Heiner Muller’s Hamletmachine
Zarrilli, Bruce McConachie, Gary Jay Williams and Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Theatre Histories: An Introduction. 2nd Ed. New York: Routledge, 2010.
McKinney, Joslin and Butterworth, Philip, The Cambridge Introduction to Scenography. Cambridge 2010
Rabey, David Ian, English Drama Since 1940 (Longman, Harlow, 2003)
Film and Media Curriculum Group
Chandler, Daniel (2007) Semiotics: The Basics (2nd edition). Abingdon: Routledge.
Creeber, Glen (Ed) (2007): Tele-Visions: an introduction to studying television.. London: BFI
Curran, James & Jean Seaton (2010): Power Without Responsibility (7th Edition) London: Routledge
Fiske, John (1990) Introduction to Communication Studies. London: Routledge.
Hall, Judith and Mark L. Knapp (2005) Nonverbal Communication in Human Interaction. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth
Hill, John & Pamela Church Gibson (Eds) (1998): The Oxford Guide to Film Studies. Oxford: OUP
Rabiger, Michael, Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics. Oxford: Focal Press, 2007