Study Schemes

BA  Theatre and Performance Design / Drama and Theatre [234W]

Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2022/2023 (Last intake year is 2023/2024)

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
TP10020

Design in Context

TP19820

Theatre Technologies

Semester 2
TP19920

Theatre Technologies 2

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
TP11020

Theatre in Context 1

Semester 2
TP11320

Theatre in Context 2

Year 1  Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 1
TP11120

Studio Theatre Project

Semester 2
TP11420

Site-Specific Performance Project

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
TP10220

Body, Voice, Expression.

Part 2 Rules

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
TP21220

Acting: Process and Performance

TP21620

Devised Performance Project

TP21820

Directors' Theatre

TP22620

Design Project

TP23820

New Media Performance

TP25920

Acting for Camera

Semester 2
TP20820

Theatre and Contemporary Society

TP23220

Shakespeare in Performance

TP24940

Theatre Production Project

Year 2  Options

Joint Honours Theatre and Performance Design students must take 60 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP22320

Principles of Scenography

TP22520

Scenographic Composition

TP22620

Design Project

Semester 2
TP24740

Scenography Production Project

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

Musical Theatre Dramaturgies

Final Year  Options

Joint Honours Theatre and Performance Design students must take at least one of the following modules. Students may, subject to the demands of their other scheme, take both modules:

Semester 1
TP31240

Advanced Studio Practice (scenography)

Semester 2
TP35940

Advanced Scenographic Project

Final Year  Options

Joint Honours Theatre and Performance Design Students may, subject to the demands of their other scheme, take their remaining credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP30020

Contemporary Drama

TP30320

Performance and Disability

TP32820

Place, Space and Landscape

TP33300

Playwriting

TP36000

Independent Research Project

Semester 2
TP33340

Playwriting

TP33420

Performance and Architecture

TP36040

Independent Research Project

TP39020

Musical 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

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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