Study Schemes

BA  Drama and English [WQ44]

Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2020/2021

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN11300

Critical Practice

Semester 2
EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN11320

Critical Practice

Year 1  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
TP11020

Theatre in Context 1

TP11120

Studio Theatre Project

Semester 2
TP11320

Theatre in Context 2

Year 1  Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1
FM17320

Writing Continuing TV Drama

TP10120

Body, Voice, Perception

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
CL10120

Greek and Roman Epic and Drama

EN10520

Contemporary Writing

TP10220

Body, Voice, Expression.

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Semester 2
TP24940

Theatre Production Project

Year 2  Options

Choose ONE of the following:

Semester 1
TP21220

Acting: Process and Performance

TP21820

Directors' Theatre

Year 2  Options

Choose 40 credits from the list below. You must choose a minimum of 40 credits from EN/CL/WR modules in 2nd year, and may take up to 80 credits of TP modules.

Semester 1
CL20320

Classical Drama and Myth

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

Semester 2
TP20820

Theatre and Contemporary Society

TP23220

Shakespeare in Performance

WR21720

Shaping Plots

Final Year  Options

Choose ONE 40 credit module

Semester 1
EN30000

Undergraduate Dissertation

TP33300

Playwriting

TP36000

Independent Research Project

Semester 2
EN30040

Undergraduate Dissertation

TP33340

Playwriting

TP36040

Independent Research Project

Final Year  Options

Choose 80 credits from the list below. You must choose a minimum of 40 credits from EN/CL/WL/WR modules in 3rd year, and may take up to 80 credits of TP modules.

Semester 1
EN31320

The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s

Semester 2
EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30420

Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

TP33420

Performance and Architecture

TP39020

Musical Theatre Dramaturgies

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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