BA Education / Drama and Theatre [W4X3]

Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Joint Honours scheme - available from 2025/2026

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards The Coleg Lead Scholarship;

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
TP11020

Theatre in Context 1

or
TC11020

Theatr a Chyd-Destun 1

Semester 2
TP11320

Theatre in Context 2

or
TC11420

Theatr a Chyd-Destun 2

Year 1 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
ED14520

Children's Development and Learning

or
AD14520

Datblygiad a Dysgu Plant

Year 1 Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 1
TP11120

Studio Theatre Project

Semester 2
TP11420

Site-Specific Performance Project

Year 1 Options

Choose 40 credits

Semester 1
ED10320

Education, Sustainability and Ethical Citizenship

ED14620

Health and Wellbeing in the Early Years

Semester 2
AD14320

Datblygiad Iaith yn y Blynyddoedd Cynnar

ED10020

Professional Practice

ED13720

Play Matters: Understanding and Supporting Learning and Play

ED14320

Language Development in the Early Years

Year 1 Options

Students may, subject to the demands of their other scheme, choose one of the following modules:

Semester 1
TP10120

Body, Voice, Perception

Semester 2

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 40 credits and, subject to the demands of their other scheme, may take up to 80 credits of TP modules in their 2nd year:

Semester 1
TP20820

Theatre and Contemporary Society

TP21220

Acting: Process and Performance

TP21620

Devised Performance Project

TP21820

Directors' Theatre

TP22620

Design Project

TP25920

Acting for Camera

Semester 2
TP23220

Shakespeare in Performance

TP24940

Theatre Production Project

Year 2 Options

Choose 40 credits from:

Semester 1
AD24320

Diogelu ac Ymarfer Proffesiynol

ED24320

Safeguarding and Professional Practice

Semester 2
AD20320

Dulliau Ymchwil

ED20320

Research Methods

ED22420

Discourses Language and Education

Final Year Core (20 Credits)

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 20 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP30020

Contemporary Drama

TP30320

Performance and Disability

TP32820

Place, Space and Landscape

Semester 2
TP33420

Performance and Architecture

TP39020

Music Theatre Dramaturgies

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students may take up to 40 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP33300

Playwriting

TP35520

Ensemble Performance Project

TP36000

Independent Research Project

Semester 2
TP33340

Playwriting

TP36040

Independent Research Project

Final Year Options

Choose 40 credits from:

Semester 1
AD30620

Hawliau Plant

AD33600

Traethawd Hir

ED30420

Special Educational Needs

ED30620

Children's Rights

ED33600

Major dissertation

Semester 2
AD30320

Datblygiad Mathemategol yn y Blynyddoedd Cynnar

AD33640

Traethawd Hir

ED30320

Mathematical Development in the Early Years

ED33640

Major dissertation

ED34820

Emotional and Social Development