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Start date: September 2023.

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

Summary
Drama in the School of Arts and Humanities provides an exciting and challenging pr...

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

Summary
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.

About
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.

The BA Drama programme is designed specifically to facilitate the development of your ability to work independently. We will offer you extensive support and guidance throughout your studies, as you develop the skills necessary to carry out rigorous and sustained independent research and practice. In this way, you will develop key skills alongside foundational professional competencies you can draw on in your future career.

BA (Hons) Drama: Major

Each year you will take four modules from the Major subject plus two modules from your minor subject.

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Graduates from this course are now working for:
• BBC
• Belfast Opera House
• Big Telly Theatre Company
• Health and Social Care Trusts
• Lyric Theatre
• The Derry Playhouse

Job roles
With this degree you cou...

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Graduates from this course are now working for:
• BBC
• Belfast Opera House
• Big Telly Theatre Company
• Health and Social Care Trusts
• Lyric Theatre
• The Derry Playhouse

Job roles
With this degree you could become:
• Administrator
• Designer
• Director
• Performer
• Producer
• Teacher
• Writer

Career options
Our Drama graduates work in the professional theatre as actors, directors, writers and stage managers. Students who have gone on to work in Musical Theatre have found the Drama with Music programme to be a great foundation. 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.

Because of the range of transferable skills associated with drama - skills in communication, analysis, creative thinking, team management - you will also be equipped to work in a range of non-specialist careers.

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

For information on postgraduate research opportunities see: www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/rgs