Structure
You can complete your English and Drama degree in three or four years. If you choose to do a year abroad this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.
YEAR 1
Your first year includes a combination of practice-based and lecture/seminar-based modules:
- Drama: London, Culture and Performance (15 Credits)
- Drama: Power Plays (15 credits)
- Drama: Beyond Acting (30 credits)
Plus:
- English: Poetry (15 credits)
- English: London Global (30 credits)
- English: Literatures in Time Epic and Romance in the Middle Ages (15 credits)
You can find out more about our modules from Queen Mary’s module directory.
YEAR 2
In English you select one 30 credit module from list 1 or 2 t two modules across three subject areas:
List One: Medieval and Early Modern Studies
- Chaucer: Gender, Faith, Identity
- Renaissance Drama
- Renaissance Literary Culture
List Two: Eighteenth-Century, Romanticism, and Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth-Century City
- Romantics and Revolutionaries
- Victorian Fictions
List Three: Modern, Contemporary and Postcolonial Studies
- Modernism
- Postcolonial and Global Literatures
- The Long Contemporary
List Four: Special Options (modules subject to change each year):
- American Romanticism
- Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
- Global Shakespeare
- James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
- Terror, Trangression and Astonishment; the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century
- The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics 1918–1948
- The Thousand and One Nights
In Drama, you will select at least one Drama module from:
- Culture, Power and Performance (seminar-based)
- Group Practical Project (practice-based)
You then choose your remaining modules from a selection of Drama modules that changes each year. Modules may include:
- Action Design
- Art and the Climate Crisis
- Culture, Power and Performance
- London Performance Now
- Making Contemporary Theatre
- Naturalism
- Performance and Visual Culture in South Asia
- Race and Racism in Performance
- Theatre, Experiment and Revolution
- Voice, Gender, Performance
YEAR 3
You select one from:
- English Research Dissertation
- Practice-based Research Project
- Written Research Project
You select the rest of your final-year modules from range of seminar and practice-based options that changes each year.
Modules may include
- British Fictions of the 1960s
- Creative Writing Prose Fiction
- Feminism(s)
- Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
- Laughing Matters: Comedy and Contemporary Culture
- Shakespeare: the Play, the Word and the Book
- Victorian Sensation Fiction
- Applied Performance
- Culture, Performance and Globalisation
- Madness and Theatricality
- Offstage London
- Performance Composition
- Showbusiness: Theatre and Capitalism
- Theatre and the Supernatural
- Verbatim, Testimonial, Tribunal
This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.
