Drama and Modern Languages

Description

Our four-year BA Drama and Modern Languages enables you to become proficient in one or more modern languages, and to study a range of dramatic texts, ranging from Ancient Greek times to the present day. You examine, in detail, the history, function and structure of comedy and acquire an overview of contemporary writing and performance art.
In your first year you take Introduction to Drama which is both practical and theoretical, introducing you to four major theatre theorists and looking at texts from Ancient Greece to modern day. In Introduction to Theatre Making you examine the process of theatre-making, through workshops taking a practical and physical approach to theatre. You will also take two language modules, which can be two languages chosen from French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese or Mandarin Chinese (level 1 & 2 available), or just one intensive module in either German, Italian or Spanish.
In your second and final year you will have one compulsory drama module, one drama option and two language options, where one at least must be taken to Mastery level. Your compulsory module in second year is Theatre: Shakespeare to Churchill and in your final year is European Naturalism and After. Your third year is spent abroad where you experience, engage with and integrate into another culture, through a period of study at a partner institution, learning to operate in a different academic, linguistic and cultural environment, or by working as a language assistant and thereby acquiring valuable professional experience of working in an international context. Provided that this experience is part of a full year Erasmus exchange, your fees will be waived by the University.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 11950 Year (Non-EEA)

• English

Course Content

The special characteristics of our course are flexibility and choice. In your first year you take two compulsory modules and two optional language modules. During your second and final years you have one compulsory module, one drama module and two language modules. You will spend your third year abroad. There is a great deal of choice for these optional modules due to the extensive range of modules offered by our departments.
With a small number of exceptions, if you successfully complete the first year of your BA, then you are qualified to enter the second year of that course and a range of other courses: for example, if you take economics, politics, philosophy and sociology, then you have a choice of at least nine possible single or joint honours courses at the end of your first year. This means you can change your course, providing you have taken the appropriate pre-requisites and places are available.
We operate a credit framework for our awards, which is based on principles widely used across the UK university sector. Each module has a credit rating attached and our standard three-year course consists of 360 credits (120 credits in your first year, and 240 credits across your second and final years).
Please note that module information on our course finder provides a guide to course content and may be subject to review on an annual basis.

Year 1

Introduction to Drama;
Introduction to Theatre Making; and
two language options

Year 2

Theatre: Shakespeare to Churchill;
one drama option; and
two language options

Year 3

Year abroad

Year 4

European Naturalism and After;
one drama option; and
two language options

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6

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Requirements

• A-levels: ABB-BBB
• GCSE English: C
• BTEC qualifications in relevant disciplines will be considered on an individual basis depending on the units studied. The standard required is generally at Distinction level.
• IB: 32-30 points (we consider IB certificates at the Higher Level on a case-by-case basis)
• Achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 6 level three credits at distinction and the remainder at merit (or above) or achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 45 level three credits at merit (or above).
• If French or Portuguese is taken as the major language, A-level French or Portuguese/Spanish (or equivalent) is required. German, Italian and Spanish can be studied as the major language either from scratch, via our intensive route, or via our post A-level route. All languages can be studied from scratch as the minor language.
• If you are interested in studying a language for which you consider yourself to be a native speaker, please contact our Undergraduate Admissions Office.

English language requirements for applicants whose first language is not English: IELTS 6.0 overall with minimum 5.5 in each component (or equivalent). Different requirements apply for second year entry.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Essex.

Funding

For up-to-date information on funding opportunities at Essex, please visit: www.essex.ac.uk/studentfinance.