Undergraduate curriculum structure
Aims and Objectives
- To engage students in the creative and critical practices of performance and screen studies in a comprehensive and broadly-based manner within a collaborative and rigorous learning environment.
- To equip graduates personally and educationally for a variety of careers and their further development by realizing their creative potential and developing their critical faculties and transferable skills.
- To foster creativity and research skills that will deepen and extend knowledge of performance and screen studies in theory and in practice both within and beyond the curriculum.
- To develop and advance theoretical, critical and creative aspects of performance and screen studies.
The course will cover:
- critical skills which broaden understanding of evaluative processes and theoretical approaches;
- research skills as appropriate to the analysis of performance, film, television and other screen media in their textual, institutional, historical, political and social contexts; and, where appropriate,
- interdisciplinary and practical approaches to a variety of research problems across performance and screen media.
Please note: There can be no guarantee that every student will have access to all the kinds of work undertaken in the Department.
Study Abroad students should note that only a restricted range of units will be available and should consult the Study Abroad webpage.
See table of Core Undergraduate Drama Units
Assessment
Admission to the second year of the course is dependent on the satisfactory completion of required course work in the first year. The final examination is in two parts and based on continuous assessment of required coursework in the two final years.
Special Requirements
Students are required to attend certain productions of plays and screenings of films and television programmes in Bristol and elsewhere (in which case costs may be met by the Department), and to undertake whatever other visits may be required in connection with their course. In the first year all students may be required to contribute, in a capacity other than acting, to at least one Department production.