This degree offers you the opportunity to study two subject areas that are excitingly complementary. The combination of Writing and Drama offers a stimulating programme of study that seeks to enhance your creative and critical understanding of theatre while developing your creative and professional writing skills. This degree has a strong practical flavour, with interactive, practical workshops and collaborative projects. Teaching is delivered by published writers, critics, journalists and professionals from other related disciplines, alongside theatre practitioners and scholars. Both programmes at Anglia Ruskin have strong links to regional networks for poetry, dramatic writing, screenwriting, fiction, music and performance.
Drama offers an excellent balance of theory and practice, allowing you to engage with key performance texts and practices across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Department of Music and Performing Arts? outstanding technical and theatre facilities will give you the opportunity to hone those skills in a variety of exciting performance events.
Study visits to local and national theatres help broaden your outlook and add a further dimension to your studies.
Students take half their degree from Writing and half from Drama.
Module guide
Year one modules:
Introduction to Imaginative Writing
Language and Criticism for Writers
Writing to Entertain, Inform and Persuade
Film Reviewing
Approaches to Contemporary Theatre
Introduction to Performance
Performance Analysis
Year two modules:
Writing Short Fiction
Writing for the Web
Screenwriting: The Short Film
Creative Writing
Writing at Work
News and Feature Writing
Writing Drama
Dramatic Performance
Live Art and Performance
TV Drama Production
Directors and Directing
Year three modules:
Major Project in Writing OR Drama
Portfolio
Writing Poetry
Writing for Radio
Creative and Professional Non-Fiction
Film Journalism
Devising Performance
Enterprise in the Creative Arts
Contemporary Drama
Art, Music and Performance
Special Subject (Theatre)
Reviewing New Drama
Arts Administration
Principles of Dramatherapy
200 - 240 tariff points at A Level or equivalent. Required subject(s): A Level Drama, Theatre Studies or related subject at grade B, English or English Language or English - Language & Literature at grade C Non-Academic Conditions: Samples of written work required For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals.
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