This degree gives you the opportunity to develop your creative talents in and understanding of Drama and Media Studies. It benefits from outstanding facilities for performance, as well as from industry standard resources for TV, digital video and 16mm film production.
Course content provides an excellent balance between theory and practice allowing you to engage with essential critical and aesthetic approaches to media and drama and to apply those creatively to a range of practical projects in both areas. This is a challenging and stimulating programme of study that will take you from the close study of texts and media forms, to the analysis and practice of performance and media production.
The course provides opportunities to exhibit or perform your work on and off-campus, to undertake commissioned work and to engage with the film and theatre-related industries through self-generated work placements, thereby encouraging the development of critical knowledge alongside transferable and vocational skills.
Students take half their degree from Media Studies and half from Drama. For further information about these courses, see the entries for BA (Hons) Media Studies and BA (Hons) Drama.
Module guide
Students normally take the compulsories in each subject and two further modules per subject per year.
Year one modules include:
Approaches to Contemporary Theatre
Introduction to Performance
Performance Analysis
Media and Society
Communication and Technology
Analysing Media Texts
Introduction to Radio
Digital Imaging
Research Methods in Media and Communication
Introduction to Print
Introduction to Video
History of Media Industries
Year two modules include:
Writing Drama
Dramatic Performance
Live Art and Performance
TV Drama Production
Directors and Directing
Media, Culture and Identity
Media Genres
Communication and the Public Sphere
Internet Communication
Radio Features
Media Audiences
Communication and Political Economy
Video Documentary
Radio Documentary
Theorizing Popular Culture
News and Feature Writing
Year three modules include:
Major Project in Media Studies OR Drama
Devising Performance
Enterprise in the Creative Arts
Contemporary Drama
Art, Music and Performance
Special Subject (Theatre)
Reviewing New Drama
Arts Administration
Principles of Dramatherapy
Political Communication
Theorizing the Information Age 1 & 2
Technoculture
Globalisation and Communication
Creative Practice in Film and Video
Working in Communcation
Contemporary Television
Alternative Media Cultures
Images and Rhetoric of Conflict
Creative Publishing
Creative Radio
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Associated careers
The media studies element will be of particular value to individuals looking to pursue a career in advertising and marketing, media consultancy, public relations, publishing, broadcast or print journalism.
The drama element will of course be good preparation for a career in drama, theatre and performance.
180 -240 tariff points at A Level or equivalent. Required subject(s): A Level Drama, Theatre Studies or related subject at grade B GCSE(s) Required: English Language grade C For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals.
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Advice on courses and careers:-
The Creative Way IAG team provides a specialist service for anyone
interested in finding out about courses and careers in the creative and
cultural industries. We can provide information direct to Students,
Parents/ Carers, Tutors and Careers Advisers via email, phone or organised
workshops and 1 to 1 sessions.
To find out more, visit our IAG page on this site on
http://www.creativeway.org.uk/IAG Or contact one of our career advisers: Matt Ball 07889 001764
m.ball@uel.ac.uk or Sarah
Comerford 07515 051509
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