DRAMA
UNDERGRADUATE SUBJECT BROCHURE 2016
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KEY INFORMATION AND
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
UCAS CODE
TYPICAL OFFER
Drama
W400
AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32
Drama with Study Abroad
W401
AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32
English and Drama
WQ34
AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34
English and Drama with Study Abroad
WQ35
AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34
Drama and Visual Culture
WW42
AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34
Drama and Visual Culture with Study Abroad
WW24
AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34
BA Single Honours
BA Combined Honours
For further details on all our entry requirements,
please see our Drama pages at www.exeter.ac.uk/
ug/drama
We strongly advise that you check this before
attending an Open Day or making your
application. Some programmes require prior
study of specific subjects and may also have
minimum grade requirements at GCSE or
equivalent, particularly in English Language
and/or Mathematics.
International students
If you are an international student you should
consult our general and subject-specific entry
requirements information for A levels and the
International Baccalaureate, but the University
also recognises a wide range of international
qualifications. You can find further information
about academic and English language entry
requirements at www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/
international
Our admissions process
We endeavour to see as many applicants as
possible before making an offer. Around half of
the applicants are invited to a two-day workshop
which will include a short interview with an
individual member of staff. There will be separate
staff-led and student-led workshop sessions
over the two days which will give applicants the
opportunity to work and talk with each other
as well as current students. This is an important
feature of the experience and for most applicants
will mean an overnight stay in Exeter. Usually,
most admissions workshops are held in the
last week of January, with two smaller one-day
workshops in December and March. Applicants
for deferred entry need to be available for
interview in their final year at school/college.
STREATHAM CAMPUS, EXETER
Website: www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/drama
Email: hums-ugadmissions@exeter.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1392 722427/724202
DRAMA
3rd in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University
Guide 2015 and 3rd in The Complete University Guide 2015
5th in the Russell Group for overall satisfaction in the
National Student Survey 20141
79% of research classified as world-leading or
internationally excellent2
Collaborative and practice-based approach including
drama in the community
Opportunities to specialise in areas such as directing,
contemporary performance, music theatre, actor training,
applied theatre, dramaturgy, theatre history and technical
theatre crafts
Drama at Exeter offers you the time and
space to explore and experiment with
performance and performance making.
Taught largely through studio sessions, the
relationship between theory and practice is
central to the discipline. Our academic staff
teach a range of performance and specialist
skills and all of our teaching grows out of our
research interests, so you will be taught by
people at the forefront of their field who are
passionate about the subject.
You’ll be able to research a broad array of
theatre histories and critical theories as
well as specialist practical modules which
will prepare you for work in many areas of
the cultural industries. You’ll obtain key
transferable skills that can be used in a
range of professions.
There’s plenty of contact time with staff,
who will challenge you and support the
development of your intellectual and creative
skills. Your lecturers will be active researchers
whose interests include areas such as
the theory and practice of actor training,
transnational performance, 20th and 21stcentury theatre practitioners, dramaturgy and
playwriting, new media, live art, site-specific
performance, gender and performance,
Shakespeare, music theatre, voice training,
arts management, theatre and religion and
the politics of culture.
The study of Drama at Exeter dates back
to 1927 and we have now offered a fulltime Drama programme for over 45 years.
The department is one of the largest and
best equipped in the UK. Over the last
few years, we have expanded and have
excellent facilities which place Exeter at the
top for teaching spaces and resources. We
have invested £3.7 million in our industry
standard drama facilities providing a superb
environment for learning and research.
We provide a supportive environment, where
collaborative work with fellow students
allows you to explore innovative approaches.
You will need a great deal of commitment,
and demand the same from us in return;
this commitment will be rewarded with an
outstanding experience and education.
based on the average percentage of positive responses across all survey categories for full service universities
Research Excellence Framework 2014 based on percentage of research categorised 4* and 3*
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DEGREE PROGRAMMES
The programmes aim to develop an
understanding of performance skills
alongside a critical and imaginative
engagement with the social, historical
and cultural contexts of theatre. Interest
and involvement in contemporary theatre
are central. The programmes encourage
this both as a subject of research and as a
practical experience through performance
and community-based activities. The studiobased work equips you with abilities to
communicate effectively, to pursue creative
analysis and to initiate and organise complex
individual and group projects.
Most teaching and learning is undertaken
in studio exercises, rehearsals and training
workshops. Other activities include seminar
presentations, independent research projects,
as well as both public and restricted audience
performances. All students have a personal
tutor who is available for advice and support
throughout their studies and a student
mentor during the first year.
How your degree is
structured
Degrees are divided into core and optional
modules giving you the flexibility to structure
your degree according to your specific
interests. Individual modules are worth 30
credits each and full-time undergraduates
need to take 120 credits in each year. Within
Drama, in addition to the core modules,
you can choose from an extensive range of
options, a few examples of which are shown
at the back of this brochure.
For up-to-date details of our programmes
and modules, please check www.exeter.ac.uk/
ug/drama
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Single Honours
BA Drama
The degree is composed of a series of
modules, most of which conclude with a
presentation open to other Drama students
and staff, to the University at large, or to
the general public. In the early stages of
the programme the emphasis is on group
collaborative work. As you move through the
degree this group work becomes the basis
for the development of individual interests
and skills. Throughout the programme all
Drama students get equal opportunities
and challenges to act, direct and to write
or otherwise create dramatic events.
Year 1 In the first half of the year you
will study a studio-based module called
Acting and Not Acting, and a seminar-based
module, Pretexts and Contexts of Drama 1,
which introduces you to theatre studies and
performance analysis as disciplines of Drama.
In the second half of the year your practical
work will focus on a performance-orientated
module rooted in research through practice
entitled Research and Performance, and
Theatrical Interpretations: Practitioners
will introduce a selection of modern and
contemporary practitioners in their context.
Year 2 In your second year you study two
core modules: Performance and Interpretation,
which will extend and deepen your critical
and theoretical vocabulary of theatre; and
Staging the Text, which involves studio-based
exploration of a range of theatrical texts. You
will also choose two options from a range of
studio-based and seminar-based modules.
You may be able to study abroad for half a
year and you can choose to integrate work
experience into your degree in the module
Humanities and the Workplace.
Year 3 In your final year you can specialise
in practical and research options such as
Interpretative Acting; Versioning Shakespeare;
Theatre Practice II: Directing; and Voice for the
Actor. Your degree culminates in the Practical
Essay, a piece of original performance
that you will create with a small group of
fellow students for an audience beyond the
University, and Theatre Praxis, an in-depth
independent study of a chosen area of theatre
and performance.
BA English and Drama
English and Drama at the University of
Exeter is a challenging and flexible degree
that builds on two internationally-renowned
centres of excellence in research, teaching
and theatre practice. Our teaching grows out
of our wide ranging, world-leading research
interests and we provide a supportive and
high quality environment for learning.
The programme provides you with a sense
of the range and variety of literary works,
introduces you to theoretical approaches
that enable you to engage critically with
texts understood in their historical and
cultural contexts, and develops your critical,
imaginative and practical engagement with
the social, historical and cultural contexts
of theatre.
English modules are taught by staff with
expertise in literature from the Middle
Ages to the present, in cinema throughout
the 20th and 21st centuries, and in creative
writing practices in poetry, prose and
screenwriting. Drama modules are taught
by staff with expertise in theatre, drama and
performance theory from the classical era to
the present, and in practice fields including
acting, directing, scriptwriting, voice, applied
theatre, live art, digital theatre crafts, music
theatre, puppetry, dance and intercultural
performance training.
The programme covers a wide range of
material allowing you to develop and follow
your own interests with the provision of
modules by active researchers who are at
the forefront of their respective fields.
Year 1 You’ll study four core modules which
will give you a solid foundation in the skills,
methods and principles involved in English
and Drama: Beginnings: English Literature
before 1800; Acting and Not Acting: the
Dialectics of Performance; Theatrical
Interpretations: Practitioners; and Rethinking
Shakespeare. In Drama, Acting and Not Acting
is a studio-based module that introduces
you to the principles of collaborative studio
work. Theatrical Interpretations: Practitioners
examines the work and influence of key
modern theatre practitioners. You will take
an additional optional module in English.
Year 2 In this year you will build from the
learning and skills developed in your first
year through a range of option choices.
You will choose two English option
modules, which can include: Chaucer and his
Contemporaries; Creative Writing; Introduction
to American Literature; Desire and Power
1570-1640; Renaissance and Revolution;
Satire and the City 1660-1750; Revolutions
and Evolutions in 19th Century Literature;
Shots in the Dark; Spectacular Attractions:
Cinema and Sensation; and The Shock of the
New 1900-1953.
In Drama you will take a seminar-based
module, Performance and Interpretation,
which studies key theoretical approaches to
analysing contemporary performance and
the place of performance within culture; and
one from a series of seminar-based options
which may include: Music as Performance;
Women and Theatre 1700-1928; Adaptation
in Contemporary Theatre and Performance;
Culture in/as Performance; Social Practice
in Art and Performance; or a studio-based
module, Staging the Text.
Year 3 In the final year of your degree you
will have the opportunity to focus your
studies on particular areas of individual
interest. You will take four modules from a
wide range of options in both English and
Drama. In addition you will either write a
dissertation in the areas of either English or
Creative Writing, or take the module Theatre
Praxis, an in-depth independent study of a
chosen area of theatre and performance. This
will give you a chance to explore a passion of
yours in real depth, with guidance from an
academic supervisor. However, your final year
must be equally weighted between English
and Drama.
For full details of the English modules,
please see www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/english
BA Drama and Visual Culture
Visual culture is an exciting area of study
which incorporates a number of established
subject areas, including art history and
cultural studies. It will be of particular
appeal if your interests are in fine and
modern art, the history of art, cinema,
literature, cultural history, philosophy,
sociology or modern languages.
By studying visual culture, you will learn
how to interpret visual images in order to
understand contemporary and past societies,
and also how these images are a reflection
of a society itself and the belief systems to
which it adheres. For example, you might
explore the emergence of a ‘society of the
spectacle’ alongside the rise of reality TV
and social media in everyday life, or the
idea of ‘virtual war’.
During your second and third years you will
be able to follow your interests through a
wide range of optional modules: you can
choose to study art and material culture in
ancient societies; look in detail at the way
art history works; or focus on visual culture
within a specific society or time period right
up to the modern day.
Our visual culture programme builds on
Exeter’s fine art collections, a sculpture
walk and one of Britain’s largest public
collections of books, prints, artefacts and
ephemera relating to the history and
prehistory of cinema.
Year 1 You’ll study four core modules, half of
which will be in Visual Culture and half in
Drama. This will give you a solid foundation
in the skills, methods and principles involved
in both subjects. The modules include:
Introducing Visual Cultures; Acting and Not
Acting; Theatrical Interpretation: Practitioners;
and Visual Media.
Year 2 In this year you will build from the
learning and skills developed in your first
year through a range of option choices.
You will take two Visual Culture modules,
Contemporary Visual Practices and Art History
and Visual Culture Field Study, in which you
will undertake a one-week study visit to a
location in continental Europe. You will
also take optional modules from a range
including: Humanities in the Workplace;
Debates and Contestations in Art History;
Theories and Histories of Photography; and
Ideal Cities? Urban Cultures of Renaissance
Italy. In Drama you will take a seminarbased module, Performance and Interpretation,
which studies key theoretical approaches to
analysing contemporary performance and the
place of performance within culture; and one
from a series of seminar-based options which
may include: Music as Performance; Women
and Theatre 1700-1928; Social Practice in Art
and Performance; Culture in/as Performance;
Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre and
Performance; or a studio-based module,
Staging the Text.
Year 3 In the final year of your degree you
will have the opportunity to focus your
studies on particular areas of individual
interest. You will take four modules from
a wide range of options in both Visual
Culture and Drama. You will write a
dissertation in the area of Visual Culture or
undertake an in-depth independent study
of a chosen area of theatre and performance,
giving you a chance to explore a passion
of yours in real depth, with guidance from
an academic supervisor.
For full details of the Visual Culture
modules, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/
ug/arthistory
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The Drama course is even
better than I expected it to be.
Not only do we have numerous
practical sessions, exploring a
range of things from Butoh and
boxing to choreography and
puppetry, we also learn about
other subject areas such as
feminism, cultural materialism and
post-colonialism. This degree is
so varied that you can get pretty
much whatever you want out of
it, and the range of jobs linked to
Drama is enormous.
Eleanor Taylor-Roberts,
BA Drama
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LEARNING AND TEACHING
We teach mainly through studio sessions,
which means that you will practise the
subject as you learn. At the start of the
programme, the emphasis is on group
collaborative work which becomes the basis
for the development of your individual
interests and skills later on. Practical class
sizes are limited to around 20.
Each week you’ll have, on average, six to
nine scheduled hours per module and will
need to allow for additional hours of private
study per module. You should expect your
total workload to average about 40 hours per
week during term time. As well as attending
sessions and writing essays and assignments,
you’ll be expected to deliver presentations
and lead workshops. We encourage
presentation work because it involves
you actively in the teaching and learning
process as well as developing important
life skills such as good verbal and visual
communication and effective interaction
with other people.
We’re committed to enhancing and
developing your key personal and
transferable skills. You’ll develop a range
of professional skills, for example, time
management and teamworking. You’ll
gain valuable critical, analytical and
communication skills. Technical skills
will include accurate note taking from
presentations, research and IT skills
and you’ll also learn a wide range of
drama-specific skills appropriate to
your module choices.
Facilities
Drama is based on two sites on the
Streatham Campus. All of the practical
spaces we use are for use only by Drama
students, giving us a high degree of flexibility.
Our facilities include two digital media
suites and upgraded technical facilities.
We have six studios fully equipped for stage
lighting and sound, 10 other studios and
seminar rooms, two sound studios, a video
and multimedia studio, state-of-the-art
computer facilities for lighting and sound
design, and workshops for set construction,
costume and prop-making. To find out more,
please see www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/
drama/facilities
the world. You could learn a new language
and experience different cultures, become
more self-confident and widen your circle
of friends. You could also specialise in areas
that aren’t available at Exeter, and when it
comes to a career, your skills and knowledge
of another country will prove invaluable
to many employers. This of course applies
equally to overseas students coming to
study abroad at Exeter.
Research-inspired teaching
The department has exchange links with
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia;
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia;
Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey; University
College Utrecht, the Netherlands; and
University of Hildesheim, Germany.
Teaching that is inspired by research ensures
lectures are up-to-date and relevant; you will
benefit from access to the latest thinking,
equipment and resources. All staff teach
second and third year options which are
linked to their own interests which include
areas such as theories of actor training,
non-western performance, 20th and 21st
century theatre practitioners, site-specific
performance, gender and performance,
theatre history, music theatre, arts
management and the politics of culture.
Academic support
All students have a personal tutor who is
available for advice and support throughout
your studies. There are also a number of
services on campus where you can get advice
and information, including the Students’
Guild Advice Unit. You can find further
information about all the services in the
University’s undergraduate prospectus or
online at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate
Study abroad
Studying at Exeter offers you the exciting
possibility of spending up to one year
abroad. Last year almost 500 Exeter students
studied at one of our partner universities,
which are in more than 40 countries around
For further details of our study abroad
options, please check our website at
www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/studyabroad
Assessment
Modules include continuous assessment of
practical and written work. Other modes of
assessment are chosen to suit the work you
are doing. These might include portfolios,
essays, interview/viva, performance,
presentations, etc. There are no written,
timed examinations for Drama modules.
Your first year doesn’t count towards your
final degree classification, but you do have
to pass it in order to progress. If you study
a three-year programme, assessments in
the final two years both count towards
your classification, and if you study a
four-year programme then the final
three years all contribute.
For full details of the assessment criteria
for each module, check the undergraduate
section of our website at www.exeter.ac.uk/
ug/drama
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CAREERS
A degree in Drama from Exeter will provide you with a wide range of skills, which will be useful in your future study or employment.
Our students develop skills in researching, analysing and assessing sources, written and verbal communication, managing and
interpreting information and developing ideas and arguments.
Many students from the department take part in the Exeter Award and the Exeter Leaders Award. These schemes encourage you to
participate in employability related workshops, skills events, volunteering and employment which will contribute to your career decision
making skills and success in the employment market.
For further information about what the career service offers at Exeter visit www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/careers
There is a wide range of career options open to you, for instance:
Perform
Teach
Each year a significant number of our
students go on to further training at LeCoq,
RADA, Guildhall, Central and so on.
Many others become actors without further
training and you see them regularly on your
TV screens. Many graduates are working
in theatre companies such as the RSC, or
touring with national companies such as
Out of Joint, Les Enfants Terribles and
The Oxford Stage Company.
Each year a significant number of our
students go on to teach at all levels of the
education system, from primary to higher
education. Graduates also work as education
officers connected to theatre companies
including the Royal National Theatre,
Sheffield Crucible and Complicite.
Direct
Many graduates of the department work
as theatre directors both with touring
companies, as well as theatres such as the
Lyric Hammersmith, Bristol Old Vic,
Lincoln Theatre Royal, the Exeter Northcott
Theatre, Stadttheater Linz (Austria), Orange
Tree (Richmond) and the Royal National
Theatre Studio. Many graduates of the
department have also gone on to work
in the film and television industries as
directors and producers.
Research
Owing to the calibre of our undergraduates,
each year many of our students go on to
further postgraduate study or research in
drama and related subjects at universities
worldwide and become researchers and
teachers in higher education. There is a
fast growing network of Exeter graduates
at leading universities across the world.
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Write
The department has produced several writers
who have had work produced for The Royal
Court, the Royal National Theatre (Olivier
Stage), the Lyceum Theatre in the West End
and the Donmar Warehouse and worked
with companies such as Frantic Assembly.
Other graduates have written for EastEnders
and had one-off dramas produced for
television and film (including The Hour
and The Iron Lady) and radio (Radio 4).
Form new theatre
companies
The synthesis of practice and theory on
the course means that many graduates
set up innovative theatre companies.
Long-standing groups that grew from
Exeter students include Punchdrunk,
Theatre Alibi, Foursight Theatre and
Forced Entertainment, who are all
internationally renowned.
Work in arts industries
The broad skills that our students gain with
us means that lots of our graduates are
working in a range of exciting arts-related
fields. We have DJs on BBC Radio, stand-up
comedians and programme producers in
television and radio, arts administrators for
companies and the Arts Council England,
musical directors for the arts, opera
companies and films, musical composers,
casting directors, TV presenters and
theatrical agents.
Draw on transferable skills
to work outside drama
Owing to the range of key transferable skills
gained in a humanities degree, our graduates
are highly sought after in a number of other
varied careers. Graduates of our courses are
employed across diverse fields including:
aviation, the Civil Service, local government,
management, website design, press relations,
magazine editing, copywriting, accountancy,
national health services, events management,
law and journalism.
Work with Drama in a
social context
Some graduates go on to take further
training as drama therapists and many go on
to take up employment possibilities within
community and applied drama, Theatre-InEducation, work in prisons and with mental
health service users.
Work in technical areas
Students have become stage managers at
venues such as The Royal Court, company
managers for companies such as The
Reduced Shakespeare Company, as
well as lighting designers and television
floor managers in a wide range of
prestigious venues.
MODULES
KEYC
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onal
For up-to-date details of all our programmes and modules, please check www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/drama
English and Drama
Drama and
Visual Culture
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Beginnings: English Literature before 1800
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Introducing Visual Culture
Pretexts and Contexts of Drama 1
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Research and Performance
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Rethinking Shakespeare
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The Poem
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Theatrical Interpretations: Practitioners
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C
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Visual Media
Acting Greek Tragedy
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Applied Drama: Interactive Theatre
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Digital Theatre Crafts
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Humanities and the Workplace
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Live Art
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Performance and Interpretation
Drama and
Visual Culture
English and Drama
Module Name
Drama
Year 2 Modules
Creative Industries Management
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Dissertation or Theatre Praxis (Theatre Praxis
compulsory for BA Drama)
C
C
C
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C
C
Staging the Text
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Theatre Practice: Interpretative Acting
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Theatre Practice Dance/Choreography
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English options
Interpretative Acting
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Practical Essay
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The Actor’s Body: Intercultural Theories and Practices
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Theatre Practice I: Applied Drama
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Theatre Practice II: Directing
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Versioning Shakespeare
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Voice for the Actor
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Physical Performance:
Choreography in Theatre-Making
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Restoration Theatre: Culture and Politics
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Creative Industries Management
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History of Acting
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Theatre and Environment
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Dis-eased: Performance and the Politics of Fear
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Visual Culture options
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Two English modules: one must fall into the period
before 1800, one into 1800 to the present.
Drama and
Visual Culture
Drama
Acting and Not Acting
Module Name
English and Drama
Module Name
Drama
Year 3 Modules
Year 1 Modules
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C
Visual Culture options
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Contemporary Visual Practices
C
Art History and Visual Culture Field Study
C
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MODULES CONTINUED
Please note that availability of all modules is subject to timetabling constraints and that not all modules are available every year. For a
full list and details of the individual modules, please check the undergraduate section of our website at www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/drama
Year 1
Acting and
Not Acting
This module introduces drama as a process through
both group practice and individual practice and to
acting as a craft. You’ll explore some of the uses,
ideas, theoretical material and training strategies
that relate to both of these activities.
Digital
Theatrecrafts
This module offers you an exploration of the
technologies which support performance, focusing
on lighting, sound, video and stage management.
Its constant aim is to test your understanding of
theory through practice.
Pretexts and
Contexts of
Drama 1
This module explores ways of reading performance,
examines the nature and place of performance
within culture, and introduces the key theoretical
and analytical approaches to performance.
Humanities and
the Workplace
(Independent
Work Experience)
Research and
Performance
This module is an exciting studio-based module
that culminates in a festival of performances from
each tutor group. The idea of the module is that you
theoretically and practically engage with a particular
area of research and develop your own group
performance from that exploration. This means
that you are not staging a performance for ‘the sake
of it’; rather you learn to develop a performance that
is critically, creatively and thoughtfully developed
from a particular area of research.
You will take part in one or two subject-related
placements, totalling at least 80 hours. Benefits
include: understanding how drama is applicable
to the workplace, develop work-based skills and
knowledge including technologies and applications
and practical experience.
Live Art
Theatrical
Interpretations:
Practitioners
This module introduces you to a representative
selection of modern and contemporary theatrical
practitioners in their context, and to their role as
interpreters of texts, furthering your own sense of
theatrical method and possibility.
This module explores a range of live art practices
including performance art, body art and biological
art. Moving beyond a fixed definition of live art,
the term ‘live’ will be interrogated in relation to
the specificities of the live event of performance
as well as the different kinds of life (human,
animal, and biological life) that have been
incorporated in contemporary art and experimental
performance practices.
Year 3
Practical Essay
This module allows you to draw together the
experience of theatre-making gained through
the degree programme and to work in a group
through the complex logistics of mounting a
culminating presentation that is likely to take
the form of a performance.
Theatre Praxis
In this module you’ll use your practical work as
a jumping off point for an in-depth independent
study of a chosen area of theatre and performance.
By reflecting in an extended piece of writing on
an area of performance practice, you’ll further your
dynamic understanding of the interrelationship
between theory and practice, and between thinking
and doing.
Creative
Industries
Management
This module offers you an insight into the practical
management of the arts in addition to developing
your professional and employment related skills.
It introduces you to the project and time
management skills required for delivering an
arts event which you will then hone and develop
through the research, creation and realisation of
your own performance brand.
Interpretative
Acting
This module furthers your understanding of
the theories and practices of performance and
encourages a flexible and exploratory approach
towards processes for preparing texts for
performance.
Voice for the
Actor
This module provides an experiential foundation
in practical voice, speech and body skills and the
application of these to the oral interpretation of a
range of written texts. The method of voice training
will primarily focus on techniques developed by
Kristin Linklater, Cecily Berry and Patsy Rodenburg.
Year 2
Performance and
Interpretation
This module introduces a variety of approaches
to defining performances and art forms and the
analysis and interpretation of their significance. By
its reliance on cutting-edge research by a selection
of staff, it will also introduce you to the concept of
research in the performing arts.
Staging the Text
This module gives you a great opportunity to reflect
on, and creatively work on the transformation of a
dramatic text onto the stage. You will be working
in small groups and will work on a selection from
the works of a particular playwright or group of
playwrights with a view to interpreting, rehearsing,
staging and performing this text. You will also
undertake workshops that simulate the process of
staging the text material you embark on and compare
different results and consequences from a wide range
of possibilities to play (with) your text.
Acting Greek
Tragedy
Applied Drama:
Interactive
Theatre
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You’ll examine practically the implications for
performance found in ancient Greek tragic scripts
and explore the methods appropriate to their
realisation by actors, working in monologue,
dialogue, or three-performer scenes. The exploration
of appropriate methods will also include the study
of acting with objects used as properties, of acting
techniques associated with masks, and of interaction
of individual actors with the choric group.
The key focus of this module is on interactive theatre
which is one form of applied theatre. Within this
form there are a range of dramatic approaches and
structures used and you’ll look at ways of employing
these within an educational setting. We will focus
on Theatre in Education (TIE) and Drama in
Education (DIE) and the distinctions between them.
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Friday 5 June 2015
Saturday 6 June 2015
Saturday 5 September 2015
Campus Tours
We run campus tours at the Streatham
Campus each weekday, and at St Luke’s
Campus on Tuesdays and Fridays during
term time. You’ll be shown around by a
current student, who’ll give you a firsthand account of what it’s like to live and
study at the University.
Phone: +44 (0)1392 724043
Email: visitus@exeter.ac.uk
www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/drama
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