Awards
Target Award
Programme Offerings
Full-Time
Educational Aims of the Course
The Single Honours degree programme in Drama and English gives students the opportunity to study two distinct but cognate academic disciplines. Both subjects are concerned with the ways in which cultural artefacts express meanings that are central to an experience of life. English emphasises reading, analysis, contextualisation and discussion of a range of fictional and non-fictional texts while Drama focuses on texts in production and performance, their creation and history as well as the development of a range of new theatre crafts and new work.
In Drama there is an emphasis on group work in production and performance, combining the theoretical with the creative and practical such that learning is achieved both through the collaborative process and individual study.
Although group discussion is central to the study of English, there is more emphasis on students working as individuals engaged in reading and writing on issues in literature.
In combination the two disciplines aim to enable students:
- To produce clear, artistically coherent, and original written and performed work, which articulates a combination of research and creative ideas.
- To read as a writer and view as a theatre maker/performer– with an ability to analyse texts, performances, and broadcasts, and respond to the effective power of both written, oral and visual language.
- To challenge students to read and view analytically across a culturally and historically broad range of writing and theatre, related to the aesthetic, ethical and social contexts of human experience.
- To use the views of others in the development and enhancement of practice and to formulate considered responses to the critical judgements of others.
- To develop their abilities to work both as independent thinkers and in team or group work,
- To enable the student to become rigorous, critical, and analytical in their thinking, initiating and taking responsibility for their own work.
- To engage in the creation, writing and/or production of performance through an understanding of appropriate performance vocabularies, techniques, crafts, and technologies, including digital.
- To foster students’ creative enthusiasm for Drama and English Literature and develop the capacity to respond creatively to a broad range of stimuli by engaging in scholarship through practice.
Learning Outcomes
Teaching, Learning and Assessment
Programme Structure
Programme Structure Description
Structure
Approved variance from Academic Framework Regulations
Entry Requirements
Extra Entry Requirements
Can this course be deferred?
Yes
Is a DBS check required?
No
OCR National acceptability
- National Certificate: Acceptable only when combined with other qualifications
- National Diploma: Acceptable only when combined with other qualifications
- National Extended Diploma: Acceptable on its own and combined with other qualifications