BA Drama and English [WQ44]

Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Single Honours scheme - available from 2020/2021

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards Excellence Scholarship;

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

EN11300

Critical Practice

Semester 2

EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN11320

Critical Practice

Year 1 Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

TP11020

Theatre in Context 1

or
TC11020

Theatr a Chyd-Destun 1

TP11120

Studio Theatre Project

Semester 2

TP11320

Theatre in Context 2

or
TC11420

Theatr a Chyd-Destun 2

Year 1 Options

Choose 20 credits from the following

Semester 1

TP10120

Body, Voice, Perception

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2

TC11620

Actio: Proses a Pherfformiad

TP11220

Acting: Process and Performance

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Semester 2

TP23220

Shakespeare in Performance

Year 2 Options

Choose ONE of the following:

Semester 1

TP21220

Acting: Process and Performance

TP21820

Directors' Theatre

Year 2 Options

Choose 60 credits from the list below. You must choose a minimum of 40 credits from EN/CL/WR modules in 2nd year, and may take up to 80 credits of TP/TC modules.

Semester 1

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

TC20920

Theatr a Chymdeithas Gyfoes

TP20820

Theatre and Contemporary Society

Semester 2

TC24940

Prosiect Cynhyrchu Theatr

TP20220

Creative Arts at Work

TP24940

Theatre Production Project

Final Year Options

Choose ONE 40 credit module

Semester 1

TP33300

Playwriting

TP36000

Independent Research Project

WL30100

Independent Research Project

Semester 2

TP33340

Playwriting

TP36040

Independent Research Project

WL30140

Independent Research Project

Final Year Options

Choose 80 credits from the list below. You must choose a minimum of 40 credits from EN/CL/WL/WR modules in 3rd year, and may take up to 80 credits of TP modules.

Semester 1

EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

TP30020

Contemporary Drama

Semester 2

EN30420

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