BA Scriptwriting and Performance

Drama at the University of East Anglia has been ranked 2nd in the Guardian University Guide 2012, leaving other prestigious theatre and drama schools in its shadow. This programme offers you the opportunity to study creative writing for each of the major dramatic media - theatre, cinema, television and radio - combined with practical, critical and historical studies in dramatic literature and performance. You will be introduced to the specific formats, conventions and techniques of scriptwriting for different forms, and will learn by writing scenes and short scripts, and critiquing each others' work. Working alongside students on other drama programmes, you will develop your writing skills in the context of an understanding of many aspects of theatre work, including acting, rehearsal and production methods. You will be able to opt to do the Drama Internship in year 2, which involves a work placement in a drama-producing organisation or environment and you will be able to take part in production and practical project work.

Course Structure Year 1

From the start of the first year all drama students (whatever their programme) are introduced to a range of applied and technical theatre skills (including safe use of the Drama Studio and aspects of lighting, sound, stage management and stage design) as well as basic acting, group work and weekly voice classes. In year 1 students will take the compulsory Scriptwriting and Performance module which marks the beginning of your specialist study and prepares you for the detailed work of the second year. Students also take the Analysing Film and Television module. Students also take a number of more practical modules and a spring semester module (currently Postwar British Drama) leads to performance work with staff and MA theatre directors.

Year 2

In year 2, students follow a core of modules dedicated to the theory and practice of writing. There is a compulsory module in each semester, Creative Writing: Drama, focusing on writing for stage and radio and exploring the discipline of screenwriting. Both of these modules lead to the workshopping of scripts. Students on this course will also be able to join others in practical drama work; many students opt to take The Actor and the Text module or the Outreach module which takes performance into a variety of real-world contexts. There is also the opportunity to choose from a variety of modules offered by the School of Literature and Creative Writing and the School of Film and Television Studies. In the second year, there is the option of an internship with a professional venue or company. Many students have made use of the internship option to experience professional work abroad.

Year 3

In the third year, students can choose to be involved in the third year production and / or the third year project (which for Scriptwriting and Performance students means a short written piece for performance by other students). Students also do a creative writing dissertation.

Teaching and Assessment:

Key skills, issues and ideas are introduced in lectures given by all members of faculty. More specialist study is undertaken in small group seminars. These are chosen from a range offered within the School and across the University. You will also spend time studying and researching in the library or carrying out practical work or projects. In most subject areas, you are assessed at the end of each year on the basis of coursework and, in some cases, project and examination results. In your final year, you will write a dissertation on a topic of your choice and with the advice of tutors. There is no final examination. Your final degree result is determined by the marks you receive in years two and three.

For Drama students, teaching is also delivered for some modules in the form of workshops and practical classes. For some modules, practical work is assessed and contributes to your final mark.

Course Organiser:Mr. Tony Frost

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Entry Requirements A Level: AAB including Drama and Theatre Studies or English Literature International Baccalaureate: 33 including a minimum of 5 in HL English Literature or Theatre Studies Scottish Advanced Highers: AAB including Drama and Theatre Studies or English Literature Irish Leaving Certificate: AAAABB Access Course: Please contact the university for further information. HND: Please contact the university for further information. European Baccalaureate: 80% overall incl English Literature or Drama and Theatre studies Entry Requirement

Applicants to this course are expected to have either Drama and Theatre Studies, Drama, Performance Studies or English Literature (or the combined English Language & Literature) at A-Level. Applicants should offer a second Arts or Humanities subject at A-Level. Students studying the IB programme must offer a second Arts or Humanities subject at Higher Level.

Students for whom English is a Foreign language

We welcome applications from students from all academic backgrounds. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading). Recognised English Language qualifications include:

• IELTS: 6.5 overall (minimum 6.0 in all components)
• TOEFL: Internet-based score of 88 overall (minimum 18 in the Listening and Writing components; 19 in the Reading component; and 21 in the Speaking component)
• PTE: 62 overall with minimum 55 in all components

If you do not meet the University's entry requirements, our INTO Language Learning Centre offers a range of university preparation courses to help you develop the high level of academic and English skills necessary for successful undergraduate study.

Interviews

We operate an initial shortlisting process for this course on the basis of the information an applicant provides on their UCAS form. Candidates who are shortlisted will be invited to interview and audition and offers are only made after a successful interview and audition. These take place on Visit Days and include an opportunity to look around the campus, view accommodation, meet current students, talk to staff members and find out more about the course. The interview and audition itself will be with one of our Drama tutors. Candidates are asked to perform a short monologue from a selection provided and there is also a discussion which generally covers topics such as your current studies, reasons for choosing the course and your personal interests and extra-curricular activities. You will also be asked to submit a writing sample, for assessment by the Course Director, and for discussion at your interview.

Gap Year

We welcome applications from students who have already taken or intend to take a gap year, believing that a year between school and university can be of substantial benefit. You are advised to indicate your reason for wishing to defer entry and may wish to contact the appropriate Admissions Office directly to discuss this further.

Intakes

The School's annual intake is in September of each year.

Alternative Qualifications

We encourage you to apply if you have alternative qualifications equivalent to our stated entry requirement. Please contact our Admissions team for details.

GCSE Offer

Students are required to have Mathematics and English at Grade C or above at GCSE Level.

Assessment

For the majority of candidates the most important factors in assessing the application will be past and future achievement in examinations, academic interest in the subject being applied for, personal interest and extra-curricular activities and the confidential reference. We consider applicants as individuals and accept students from a very wide range of educational backgrounds and spend time considering your application in order to reach an informed decision relating to your application. Typical offers are indicated above. Applicants to this course who are shortlisted will also be required to attend for interview and audition.

The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing brings together writers, scholars, teachers and students in an exploration of the powers and possibilities of literature. Our aim is to make creative writing and critical reading confront one another in ways that sharpen and enliven both. We teach and research across the range of English Literature from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first. This coverage is supplemented by our interests in European Literature, in postcolonial writing in English across the world, and in literary and cultural theory.

Translation

UEA is home to the British Centre for Literary Translation, which is both a forum for professional translators and a focus for translation work with undergraduate and postgraduate students of literature. The School of Literature & Creative Writing runs the MA in Literary Translation course.

Creative Writing

For over thirty years UEA has been an important centre for established and upcoming writers, whether they come here as teachers, as students, as writers in residence, or to take part in the long-running literary festival organised by the Arthur Miller Centre and the Centre for Creative and Performing Arts.

Drama

Our drama programmes combine critical study with creative practice. The theoretical aspect draws on the expertise of LIT as a whole; the practical work is based in the purpose-built Drama Studio.

Literature

Literature at UEA is not a complete, finished object of study, but a living practice. Because we also do creative writing, translation and drama, we are aware that imaginative writing is not fixed; it is constantly being transformed, adapted, rewritten and reread. Students are invited to study these processes, and also to be part of them.

Among a diverse group of about twenty literature lecturers, there are experts on the various roles that the practice of literature can play, and has played, in society — how it can be something like praying, or like journalism, or like conversation, how it can be a form of political action, or a vehicle for ideas, or a working out of unmanageable experience, or a way of negotiating (or inflaming) differences of class and race and gender. We teach literature not in isolation, but in relation to this untidy bundle of social and psychological purposes.

It follows that we have no great respect for the boundaries that divide one academic discipline from another. We take a lively interest in the work of our colleagues in history, philosophy, film, the visual arts and music, and we encourage our students to do the same. That is why we offer a range of degree programmes which combine literature with other, related subjects. Our largest programme is the BA in English Literature: this is a single subject degree, but we work to keep it open and responsive to its multi-disciplinary surroundings.

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