Drama and Theatre Arts BA (Hons)

Program Overview

The Drama and Theatre Arts BA (Hons) at De Montfort University immerses students in the world of drama, theatre, and performance. With a focus on contemporary methods and collaboration, the program offers a personalized experience through specialized routes and a professional performance at the renowned Curve Theatre. Graduates develop strong skills in critical analysis, communication, and performance, preparing them for careers in teaching, media, theatre, and other creative fields.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

• Engage creatively and critically with drama, theatre, acting and performance.
• Focus on contemporary methods, collaborative skills and finding your artistic voice.
• Benefit from a long-standing partnership with the renowned Curve theatre.
• Recognised as a Centre for Excellence in Performance Arts, offering exceptional facilities.
• Choose a route through the degree in your third year to personalize your studies.

Outline:

• Year 1: Focuses on Body, Text, Voice; Participations; Revolutions: Staging Texts or a chosen route; and Theatre Company: Ensemble.
• Year 2: Focuses on Engaging Audiences; Making Theatre and Performance; Revolutions: Acting and Directing or a chosen route; and Theatre Company: Collaboration or Professional Performance Practice 1 (audition required).
• Year 3: Choose two blocks from Live Art, Staging Texts, Theatre Company: Production, and Education and Performing Arts.
Select Block 3 from Performance, Identity and Activism or a chosen route. Take the Final Project or Professional Performance Practice 2 (audition required) as your final block.
• Choose to specialize in a field of your interest within the last two years.
• Complete a professional 5-week performance at the Curve Theatre in Leicester.

Assessment:

• Diverse methods are used for assessment, including critical essays, group and individual performances and presentations, oral vivas, creative portfolios, and self-reflections.
• The first year emphasizes performance-based understanding and theory in a historical context.
• The second year develops your skills and engagement, leading to a performance opportunity at the Curve.
• The third year allows you to explore your interests through specific modules and culminate in a self-chosen project or another Curve performance.

Teaching:

• You receive around 12 hours of timetabled sessions per week and complete 25+ hours of independent study.
• The curriculum combines lectures, tutorials, seminars, group work, workshops, and self-directed study.
• Staff expertise ranges from Shakespeare in performance to applied drama, directing, language and performance, and contemporary practice.
• Visiting lecturers, actors, practitioners, directors, and theatre companies enrich the learning experience.
• The University uses the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach, offering various forms of support and access to all students.
• DMU Replay offers audio and visual recordings of lectures for individual learning and revision.

Careers:

• Develop strong skills in critical analysis, research, communication, collaboration, project management, and public performance.
• Gain valuable real-world experience and build connections that can support future careers.
• The program leads to careers in teaching, media, performance, theatre, directing, and other creative fields.
• Graduates find success in various roles, from theatre companies and arts organizations to their own professional ventures.
• Alumni have become actors, directors, technical professionals, teachers, and postgraduate researchers.

Other:

• Entry requirements include high school qualifications, GCSEs, and an interview.

Additional Note:

• This degree offers numerous opportunities for practical, professional, and theoretical engagement.
• You will benefit from the expertise of professionals with a passion for creative and diverse approaches to theatre.
• The program focuses on fostering individual artistic vision alongside strong performance and critical thinking skills.

UK

EU/International Institution code: D26 UCAS course code: W400 Duration: Three years full-time, four years full-time with a placement. Six years part-time. Fees and funding: 2024/25 tuition fees for UK students: £9,250 Contact us: For more information, call us on +44 (0)116 2 50 60 70. How to apply Submit a study-related enquiry Duration: Three years full-time, four years with placement Fees and funding: 2024/25 tuition fees for international students: £15,750 Contact us: For more information, call us on +44 (0)116 2 50 60 70. How to apply Application guidance document Submit a study-related enquiry