Drama and English Literature with Professional Placement Year

About this programme

On this combined English and Drama degree, you’ll explore your creative and artistic passions in a way that ensures you’ll graduate with the practical and professional skills to support your future goals. Your English Literature studies will expose you to a wide range of genres, periods and approaches, encouraging you to think differently about what literature can be, and how it might apply to current challenges and debates in society. Your Drama studies provide opportunities to develop your creative skills, to work as part of a theatre company and to develop your performance, writing and production skills. By studying these subjects together, you’ll gain a deep appreciation of how language can be brought to life to inspire and change perspectives – whether on paper, on the stage or on screen. Your combined studies will improve your ability to analyse, communicate and collaborate, and help you to develop a broad, practical skill set that will benefit you in many career paths. From classic texts to new and experimental writing, you'll be asked to think differently about what ‘literature’ can be and to explore original ways of reading and analysing it. Making is at the heart of your Drama studies: you’ll work as part of a theatre company with other students from the Drama degree to develop skills in playwriting, musical theatre, production and media, performance-making and applied theatre. Year one The first year introduces key concepts and skills that underpin the subjects of English Literature and Drama and allows you to ask questions, challenge your own assumptions an