First Year Pathway in English, Media, Drama, and Writing - Continue to Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Drama

If communication is of interest to students and wanting to explore how humans use words, stories and images to express their ideas, then an English, media, drama and writing pathway could be fitting. The English and writing courses let you develop their own style of writing and explore facets of English language, literature and linguistics that fascinate them. The film and media courses let students explore the culture of communication, and develop their own style of media production – while focusing on the skills and knowledge valued by employers. Performing is at the core of the Drama degree at ARU. With the BA (Hons) Drama degree, students will be supported while they grow into a confident, versatile and exciting drama practitioner with transferable skills to suit the field they want to work in. With a strong focus on performance, students will get to work on public productions as well as smaller-scale projects, exploring practices from the 20th century onwards and devising their own productions. Students will be encouraged to create innovative and daring performance practice as they develop expertise in group collaboration alongside their own solo performances. Students will also get the chance to weight their studies to suit personal interests, be that drama practice, specialising in backstage production or even theatre administration.