BA (Hons) Drama & Theatre Studies

Liverpool Hope University

BA (Hons) Drama & Theatre Studies

  • Country United Kingdom
  • Course Duration 36 month
  • Course Type Full Time
  • Courses Campus On Campus
  • Language Specification IELTS
  • Program Level Graduate
  • Education Required Undergraduate
  • Admission intake SEP
  • Minimum GPA 3
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Free GBP 12,500

Program Description

About the course

Explore theatre and performance in the heart of the city of Liverpool. Learn about the origins of current practices and develop your hands-on skills in making new work.Liverpool Hope’s creative community is internationally renowned and world-leading in drama research and practice. You will develop your acting and directing skills, your ability to facilitate drama sessions and your devising skills, as well as improving your critical writing skills. We make full use of the many theatre venues in Liverpool, from the traditional Everyman/Playhouse to the experimental Tate Liverpool, as well as our own Capstone Theatre and several well-equipped studio theatre spaces dedicated for student use.Throughout your time at Liverpool Hope, you will be asked to explore performance in relation to historical and contemporary social and ethical contexts, helping you to understand the critical place of the performing arts in 21st-century society. Our motto is to ‘educate in the round’, meaning you will develop aesthetic and social skills designed to equip you with the skills to become a potential future leader in the subject of drama. At Hope we produce graduates ready to make a difference in the world.

Course structure

Teaching on this degree is structured into lectures, where all students are taught together, rehearsal/seminars of smaller groups of around 15-20 students, and tutorials which typically have no more than 10 students. In your first year of study there are approximately 12 teaching hours each week, which reduces to approximately 10 teaching hours in your second and third years.On top of teaching hours, you will also be expected to spend a number of hours studying independently each week, as well as rehearsing for group assessments or performances.