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Liberal Arts With Theatre and Performance Studies


Studying Liberal Arts with Theatre and Performance Studies will provide you with a range of unique opportunities. You will be taught by world-leading scholars in the Theatre and Performance Studies Department, industry professionals, and artists who are passionate about the power of theatre and performance.

You will explore how – at different historical moments, in various places – drama, theatre and performance has been used to share stories, forge communities, make a stand, help people to remember, to laugh, to feel, to understand more deeply, and to change things.

Why study the Theatre and Performance Studies route?

In your Liberal Arts modules, you will be introduced to different ways of thinking about the relationship between cultural works and lived experience. You will consider how creative expressions connect to issues of individual, social and national identity. The Theatre and Performance Studies route will allow you to explore such questions in greater critical depth through the lens of theatre and other kinds of performance.

Teaching in the Theatre and Performance Studies Department grows out of cutting-edge research and practice, with areas of staff expertise including applied and community theatres; theatre for social change; acting and performing; producing and administration; theatre history; Shakespeare in performance; street arts and performance in public spaces; popular, political and avant-garde theatres; forms of writing, directing and dramaturgy; theatre and national identities; contemporary British, Irish, European, and North American theatres; theatre in the African context; postcolonial and intercultural theatre and performance; theatre and representations of mental health; performing gender and sexuality; performance and cities; theatre production in digital environments, video.

Modules

You may be interested in the following Theatre modules:

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Liberal Arts With Theatre and Performance Studies

Course Overview


In your first year, you will take 120 CATS of 100-level modules. These will be composed by a combination of your:
Core Modules (30 CATS) + Optional Core Modules (30 CATS) + Route Modules (30 CATS) + Optional Modules (30 CATS). Click on the sections below for more information.


IP101

Liberal Arts: Principles and Praxis

0 CATS Terms 1-2

IP121

Truth and Misinformation

30 CATS Terms 1-2-3
CHOOSE AT LEAST ONE RESEARCH METHODS MODULE:

IP110

Quantitative Methods for Interdisciplinary Research

15 CATS Term 2

IP108

Qualitative Methods for Undergraduate Research

15 CATS Term 1
CHOOSE AT LEAST ONE CRITICAL ISSUE MODULE:

IP120

Beauty

15 CATS Term 2

IP122

Revolution

15 CATS Term 1
You must take:

TH114

Theatre and Performance in ContextLink opens in a new window

30 CATS Terms 1-2-3
CHOOSE AT LEAST 30 CATS OF ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL MODULES

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Choose 30 CATS from any available and approved 100-level modules that interest you from across the University. These can be from Theatre and Performance Studies as well, or you might wish to explore another area.

1 x 30 CATS or
2 x 15 CATS
Terms 1-2-3

In your second and final years, you will take 120 CATS per year for a total of
240 CATS of 200 and 300-level modules (120 CATS each).

These will be composed by a combination of:
Core Modules (60 CATS) + Optional Core Modules (45 CATS) + Route Modules (60 CATS) + Optional Modules (75 CATS).
Click on the sections below for more information.


IP205

Consuming Cultures

30 CATS

Year 2 – Terms 1-3

IP302

Dissertation 30 CATS Year 3 – Terms 1-3

You must take at least THREE (3) optional core modules between your second and final year (45 CATS total). If you take one of the SCFS Venice Modules, it will count towards this requirement.

NB: Not all modules will run in all years and modules offered are subject to change. The optional modules that we have offered in the past have included the following list:

IP204

The Apocalyptic Imaginary 15 CATS

IP226/IP326

The Liquid Continent

15 CATS

IP304

Posthumous Geographies I: Underworlds

15 CATS

IP305

Posthumous Geographies II: Paradises

15 CATS

IP306

Quantitative Methods: Research Project

15 CATS

IP309

Quantitative Research Methods: Understanding Relationships in Data

15 CATS

IP312

The Quest I: Departures and Heroic Journeys

15 CATS

IP313

The Quest II: Exile and Homecoming

15 CATS

IP315

(Taught in Venice)

A Sustainable Serenissima: Water and the Future of Venice

This module is offered through the Alliance Intensive Study Programme

Hear about what the 2022-23 module cohort got up to in Venice in July 2022.

15 CATS

IP317

(Taught in Venice)

Venice: Resistance and Representation

This module is offered through the Alliance Intensive Study Programme

Hear about what the 2022-23 module cohort got up to in Venice in July 2022.

15 CATS


You can see a list of our current offering of optional modules by clicking on this link: Honours-Level Optional Core Modules in Liberal Arts

CHOOSE AT LEAST 60 CATS OF 200 and 300-Level Theatre and Performance Studies Modules.
NB: You must study at least 30 CATS of TPS modules in each year.

TH2**/3**

Click here for a list of modules offered in Theatre and Performance Studies

2 x 30 CATS or
4 x 15 CATS
Terms 1-2-3
NB: 200-Level Modules cannot be taken in your final year of study.
NB: 200-Level Modules cannot be taken in your final year of study.
CHOOSE 75 CATS OF ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL MODULES

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Choose 75 CATS from any available and approved 200- and 300-level modules that interest you from across the University. These can be from Theatre and Performance Studies as well, or you might wish to explore another area.

75 CATS total Terms 1-2-3

Intercalated Year (optional)

Are you interested in extending your degree by a year? You can do so either via an additional year of study abroad or work placement:


Study Abroad Year

An optional intercalated year abroad is available between your second year and final year. Click here for more information on our Year Abroad partnerships: Liberal Arts Year Abroad Options.

Dr. Bryan Brazeau is the Department's Study Abroad Coordinator. Click here to contact him and find out more.


Work Placement Year

An optional intercalated work placement is available between your second year and final year. Click here for more information on the Intercalated Work Year option: Liberal Arts Intercalated Work Placements.

Bodrun Nahar is the Department's Employability and Placement Manager. Click here to contact her and find out more.



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