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For courses starting in 2023 (and for deferred applications), your application should be with us at UCAS by one of these dates – depending on what courses you apply for. If y...

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Start date: September 2023.

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Explore contemporary performance and marketing to develop your creativity & critical thinking skills for a career in creative industries and beyond.

Summary
Studying Drama in combination with Education is an excellent introduction to a ...

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Explore contemporary performance and marketing to develop your creativity & critical thinking skills for a career in creative industries and beyond.

Summary
Studying Drama in combination with Education is an excellent introduction to a future career in the general education sector. It will provide you with an introduction to the main concepts of educational theory and practice in NI, the UK and internationally.

Drama in the School of Arts and Humanities provides an exciting and challenging programme with an emphasis on contemporary performance practices. Our approach to teaching and learning integrates theories and practices of performance in order to extend our understanding of Drama as an art form in its social, political and cultural contexts.

Our expert lecturing staff are internationally-recognised researchers with a range of industry-related experience. Students are able to take advantage of our nationally-acknowledged teaching expertise and will have opportunities to extend their experience of contemporary performance practices through contact with part time staff and key visiting lecturers. The Drama programmes benefit from extensive links with theatre practitioners and key Irish theatre companies, who use our spaces for performances and delivering practice-based workshops.

Drama allows students to learn in a rigorous and stimulating environment where they are encouraged to develop essential skills as thinking creative practitioners.

Each year semester students will take two modules in Drama and one in Marketing.

Marketing when taken as a minor is designed to provide students with an insight into the role of marketing in businesses. Students will have the opportunity to work with industry through applied projects. Topics students will study include Consumer Behaviour, Marketing Communications, International Marketing and Digital Marketing.

Marketing minor students have the opportunity during the final year of their degree or upon completion of their degree to work towards professional qualifications with either The Chartered Institute of Marketing of Marketing Institute of Ireland.

About
This course will provide you with opportunities to learn from two disciplines, Drama and Education. As a result, you will have opportunities to develop a range of graduate qualities which will provide you with flexible and fluid skillsets for future study and employment.

The degree in Drama allows you to develop a broad base of knowledge of Drama practices and systematic approaches to the analysis of works in performance. You will be able to prepare yourself for the kinds of mosaic careers characteristic of the creative industries and increasingly common across a range of sectors.

There are particular areas of specialist practice that you can develop as you progress through each level of the degree. If you wish to pursue a creative career, although we do not provide full-time conservatoire training for actors, you can take modules that introduce you to the principles of acting, writing, directing, design, stage management, arts education and working with community groups. These can prepare you for further specialist professional training at post-graduate level.

You will develop a core set of academic skills in research, analysis and communication in written and oral formats. Alongside these, you will also develop transferable skills in group work, project management, problem solving and the use of key technologies.

Expand+Assessment methods vary and are defined explicitly in each module. Assessment can be via one method or a combination e.g. examination and coursework . Assessment is designed to assess your achievement of the module’s stated learning outcomes. You c...

Hide-Assessment methods vary and are defined explicitly in each module. Assessment can be via one method or a combination e.g. examination and coursework . Assessment is designed to assess your achievement of the module’s stated learning outcomes. You can expect to receive timely feedback on all coursework assessment. The precise assessment will depend on the module and may be subject to change from year to year for quality or enhancement reasons. You will be consulted about any significant changes.

Coursework can take many forms, for example: essay, report, seminar paper, test, presentation, dissertation, design, artefacts, portfolio, journal, group work. The precise form and combination of assessment will depend on the course you apply for and the module. Details will be made available in advance through induction, the course handbook, the module specification and the assessment timetable. The details are subject to change from year to year for quality or enhancement reasons. You will be consulted about any significant changes.

Normally, a module will have four learning outcomes, and no more than two items of assessment. An item of assessment can comprise more than one task. The notional workload and the equivalence across types of assessment is standardised.

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Graduates from this course are now working for:

BBC
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Big Telly Theatre Company
Kabosh Theatre Company
Tinderbox Theatre Company
Lyric Theatre
Primary and Secondary Schools

Job roles
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Graduates from this course are now working for:

BBC
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Big Telly Theatre Company
Kabosh Theatre Company
Tinderbox Theatre Company
Lyric Theatre
Primary and Secondary Schools

Job roles
With this degree you could become:

Box Office Manager
Business Development Manager
marketing officer
venue manager
Career options
Our Drama graduates work in the professional theatre as actors, directors, writers and stage managers. Our graduates also work as teachers, college and university lecturers, drama therapists or community artists. They have found work with: Kabosh Theatre Company, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, the Millennium Forum, Jigsaw Productions, Lyric Theatre, In Yer Space, BBC, Derry Playhouse, amongst others. They have set up their own businesses, founded theatre companies, been employed in various media posts, management, theatre management, arts administration, and the civil service.

Our graduates progress to postgraduate study and training such as at the University of Exeter, University of Warwick, Central School of Speech and Drama, Atlantic Acting School, Gaiety School of Acting, The Drama Studio, University of Manchester, and a range of PGCE courses in England and Scotland.

Drama graduates have amongst the best rates of employment amongst all arts and humanities graduates in the UK.