BA English Literature / Drama and Theatre [QW34]

Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Last intake year is 2023/2024

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
TP11020

Theatre in Context 1

or
TC11020

Theatr a Chyd-Destun 1

Semester 2
TP11320

Theatre in Context 2

or
TC11420

Theatr a Chyd-Destun 2

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN11300

Critical Practice

Semester 2
EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN11320

Critical Practice

Year 1 Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 1
TP11120

Studio Theatre Project

Semester 2
TP11420

Site-Specific Performance Project

Year 1 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1
EN11220

American Literature 1819-1925

IC17700

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL10820

We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
EN19920

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

IC17720

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

Year 1 Options

Students may, subject to the demands of their other scheme, choose one of the following modules:

Semester 1
TP10120

Body, Voice, Perception

Semester 2

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 40 credits and, subject to the demands of their other scheme, may take up to 80 credits of TP modules in their 2nd year:

Semester 1
TP20820

Theatre and Contemporary Society

TP21220

Acting: Process and Performance

TP21620

Devised Performance Project

TP21820

Directors' Theatre

TP22620

Design Project

TP25920

Acting for Camera

Semester 2
TP23220

Shakespeare in Performance

TP24940

Theatre Production Project

Year 2 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

Semester 2
EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

Year 2 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1
EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

WL23120

'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production

Semester 2
EN22120

Place and Self

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 20 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP30020

Contemporary Drama

TP30320

Performance and Disability

TP32820

Place, Space and Landscape

Semester 2
TP33420

Performance and Architecture

TP39020

Music Theatre Dramaturgies

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students may take up to 40 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP33300

Playwriting

TP35520

Ensemble Performance Project

TP36000

Independent Research Project

Semester 2
TP33340

Playwriting

TP36040

Independent Research Project

Final Year Options

Choose 60 credits

Semester 1
EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL30100

Independent Research Project

Semester 2
EN30420

Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English

EN31320

The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s

IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL30140

Independent Research Project

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance