Theatre Studies (Joint Honours)

When can you start this course? | UCAS code | Fees | Course length | Entry requirements

What is joint honours?

With joint honours, you can study for an honours degree in two or even three subjects. Find out more about joint honours, including what subjects you can combine with this one.

Why choose this course?

The course is taught by practising professional artists and active researchers with expertise in their own specialist fields

We'll encourage you to explore the relationship between Drama, Theatre and Performance and consider Theatre Studies from many different perspectives

You'll not only encounter a wide variety of performance practice, but also the theoretical concerns related to that practice

You'll study Modern Drama, Performance Analysis, Writing for Performance, Script Analysis and Applied Drama

You'll connect to the practices at Derby Theatre and have the opportunity to engage in projects and extra-curricular activities at the Theatre

About the course

A joint honours degree is the perfect choice for you if you want to study more than one subject. You can combine Theatre Studies with other subjects that are offered at our Derby Campus, such as Creative Writing, English, Music, Film and Television studies, to create your joint honours degree.

This course is taught by practising professional artists and active researchers with expertise in their own specialist fields. We will encourage you to explore the relationship between drama, theatre and performance and consider Theatre Studies from many different perspectives. You will encounter a wide variety of performance practice, as well as the theoretical concerns related to that practice. And you will connect to the practices at Derby Theatre and have the opportunity to engage in projects and extra-curricular activities at the Theatre.

We are at an exciting time when there continues to be extensive work in the fields of theory and theatre. You will explore a range of theories during your theatre modules. We encourage and support as wide an interest in world theatre as possible and relate theatre to the field of performance in its widest sense engaging in areas such as the non-verbal and non-narrative. During the course you will study a range of topics which will include theatre as text, theatre as embodied, theatre as an institution and issues related to social and historical forces that connect to theatre. You will also be able to develop your own creative work if you choose the writing for performance modules.

Find out more about what subjects and modules you'll be studying...

Your career

Our graduates are now working in a wide variety of areas, both in the theatre sector and beyond, including teaching, acting, creating new theatre companies, producing, directing, marketing, arts administration, BBC radio and education advisory work.

We create many opportunities for you to showcase your work to a wide audience. By the time you finish your course we will have introduced you to many important agencies and support networks relevant to working in the arts industry and helped you structure your CV and reflect on your employability.

We will do our best to equip you to be able to successfully plan your career development. You will develop the diverse range of skills and interests that employers are looking for and investigate other options, such as the potential of becoming self-employed or working on a freelance basis.

Start dates

If you're from the UK or EU you can apply to study this course in:

September 2012

If you're from a country outside the EU you can apply to study this course full time in:

September 2012

UCAS code

The UCAS code depends on which subject combination you choose. Popular courses that can be combined with Theatre Arts include:

Creative Writing
English
Dance and Movement Studies
Film and Television Studies
Business Management
Popular Music Production
American Studies
Education Studies
Marketing

Fees

This is a classroom based subject.

UK/EU students

Full time:

If you combine this subject with another classroom based subject or a resource intensive subject it will cost £6,995 per year.
If you combine this subject with a specialist subject it will cost £7,495 per year.

Part time:

You usually take 18 of these modules in total for your course

Modules from classroom based subjects will cost £875 per module.
Modules from resource intensive subjects will cost £935 per module.
Modules from specialist subjects will cost £1,000 per module.

International students

Full time:

If you combine this subject with another classroom based subject or a resource intensive subject it will cost £9,700 per year.
If you combine this subject with a specialist subject it will cost £9,975 per year.

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2012 and August 2013. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

More information about our fees for September 2012 and the support available