Drama and Creative Writing BA at Royal Holloway, University of London

By combining the study of Creative Writing with Drama, you'll gain a deeper understanding of how theatre performance and creative writing interact - whether you specialise as a playwright, or choose to take the poetry or fiction options in creative writing. Choosing to study Drama at Royal Holloway will put you at the centre of one of the largest and most influential Drama and Theatre departments in the world. You'll create performances, analyse texts, and bring a range of critical ideas to bear on both.

Department: Drama and Theatre  |  Duration: 3 years full time  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Egham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Core modules: Year 1: Theatre and Performance Making 1, Theatre and Text 1; Introduction to Creative Writing, Why Write? The History and Theory of Creative Writing, Creative Writing Special Focus (Term 1), Creative Writing: Special Focus (Term 2); Year 2: Playwriting, Fiction, Poetry; Year 3: Playwriting 2, Fiction 2, Poetry 2. Optional modules: Year 2: Theatre and Performance Making: Devising, Theatre and Performance Making: Theatre Directing, Theatre and Performance Making: Acting for Camera, Theatre and Performance Making: Dance and Theatre, Theatre and Performance Making: Scenography and others; Year 3: Love, Gender and Sexuality, Race Relations in Theatre, Film and Television, Shakespeare, Naturalist Theatre in Context, Creative Learning and Theatre and others.

Career pathways

There are plenty of performance opportunities to get stuck into while you're here, and they'll stand you in good stead when you graduate. You'll be familiar and confident in performance situations (skills which are vital for leading meetings and make you viable for visible leadership roles).

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