Department of Music, Media and Performance
Drama BA (Hons)
Drama
Studying Drama at Chester will provide you with opportunities to engage with a wide range of approaches to making theatre and performance. We have a broad suite of modular choices, and students have several options as they develop and craft a range of skills over the course of their degree. So, whether you want to be a theatre maker, a performer, a director, or a facilitator, in your final year there is an opportunity for you to specialise in your chosen profession within the creative industries.
Facilities
Our excellent facilities at our Creative Campus in Chester include three large specialist rehearsal and performance studio spaces with lighting and sound rigs and an outside amphitheatre. Students also have access to a range of loan equipment including specialist video and recording equipment.
Our department also enjoys excellent links with the professional industry, locally, nationally, and internationally and is a vibrant, close-knit, and supportive community of creatives.
”As a combined student, I only spend half of my academic time on Kingsway campus. However, I have been made to feel involved within the department, being treated equally by lecturers and other students. I have always felt comfortable, welcome and included whilst studying Drama and have met my now housemates, close friends and person tutor through the subject!”
Jessica Berry (combined Drama student)
Led by a team of specialist and highly experienced lecturers, a wide range of professional practitioners and visiting industry professionals, the BA (Hons) Drama degree focuses on practice, theory and industry which allows you to explore performance critically and practically whilst gaining a deeper understanding of diverse performance, creative and research practices.
As a Drama student you will engage with a broad suite of modules that will enhance your knowledge to performance making. This includes looking at traditional forms of theatre, while also engaging with alternative forms of making performance such as devising. Our students can opt to develop projects in areas such as musical theatre, interactive intermedia, applied and community settings and there are also opportunities to develop skills in areas of technical theatre, such as lighting and sound design, and interactive digital performance.
Define your career
Dramaturgy is a second-year module which allows students to interrogate the connection between the play text and performance and wrestle with different methods of play analysis resulting in various interpretations and page-to-stage approaches.
Our third year negotiated studies modules which is selfdirected and allows you to initiate and develop your own major project. Many students are often very focussed on their ultimate work aspirations, and this module helps them to gain ‘graduate trajectory’ to assist them to move into their chosen profession as seamlessly as possible when they have finished their studies.
The drama degree seeks to bring many influences to bear on your work, encouraging you to be able to make informed choices about various approaches and develop yourself in the creative field of drama. Throughout the course, you will take part in a series of practical classes, seminars, master classes and workshops led by leading industry professionals and contemporary performance scholars which are designed to support your learning and orientate you towards the creative world of drama.
For more information contact: Programme Leader, Dr Pamela Barnes: e: p.barnes@chester.ac.uk
t: 01244 515733
Department of Music, Media and Performance
www.chester.ac.uk
For admissions enquiries: Undergraduate Admissions
University of Chester
Parkgate Road
Chester, CH1 4BJ
t: 01244 511000
e: enquiries@chester.ac.uk
For further information, please contact:
Department of Music, Media and Performance
Creative Campus, Kingsway
Kingsway
Chester, CH2 2LB
t: 01244 515855
e: mmp@chester.ac.uk
Like many universities across the UK, we are carefully planning for the next year to ensure the health and safety of our students and to ensure that however the situation may develop or change, the academic year will be completed for all students. This may mean we use some alternative modes of delivery to those described in this leaflet, but we’ll still be delivering a high quality learning experience. Further details will follow on our website once plans have been confirmed.