Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Drama and English Literature

At the University of Chester, they encourage students to engage with a wide range of approaches to making theatre and performance. This includes looking at traditional forms of theatre, while also engaging with alternative forms of making performance such as devising. There's actor training to do with straight acting, comedy and physical theatre. Students also develop projects to do with making drama in educational and community settings, as well as developing projects in musical theatre and theatre for young audiences. And there are also opportunities to develop skills in areas of technical theatre, such as lighting and sound design. Students will study an exciting variety of novels, poems and plays. They might find themselves looking for the psychological undercurrents in a fantasy novel, applying feminist theory to a Renaissance courtly sonnet, studying the motif of the vampire in Gothic horror or exploring the treatment of love in the comedies of Shakespeare. There's the chance to write a dissertation on a topic of each students' choosing. They will develop key skills for the future: Students will learn how to frame a convincing argument, express it in discussion, analyse writing in all styles and work effectively alone or in a group.