Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Theatre Studies with English

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Theatre Studies with English

MQF Level

6

Duration and Credits

3 Years

180 ECTS

Mode of Study

Full-time

Theatre Studies

Applicants wishing to join the part-time mode must submit their application as full-time, and then include a note in the comments box of the application form, denoting their preference to be considered for the part-time option. Such requests will be considered by the Board of the Faculty.

In the undergraduate programme of study in Theatre Studies, we will give you an academic perspective of the theoretical, practical and historical application of the theatre, and its versatile application in a broad range of performative manners. During the course we will instil you with a deep sense of awareness and appreciation of the interdisciplinary area and its contribution to society. In your final year of studies, you may have the chance to carry out a research-based dissertation of your own choice. We will also encourage you to participate in the Erasmus+ mobility programme for a multicultural and diverse academic journey.


Communication and Academic Skills Programme

The communication and academic skills programme complements students’ main course of study. It introduces them to writing and presenting as situated within academic contexts sensitive to specific disciplines and develops their competences for future careers.

Information for International applicants

English

An Advanced Level pass at Grade C or better in English.


Theatre Studies

Applicants in terms of the 'maturity (adult learners) clause' are required to sit for an interview, held on a date which will be announced in due course.

Applicants may also be required to submit a Learning Portfolio. Further information about the Portfolio will be forwarded to applicants.

Applicants wishing to join the part-time mode must submit their application as full-time, and then include a note in the comments box of the application form, denoting their preference to be considered for the part-time option. Such requests will be considered by the Board of the Faculty.


English

Applicants in terms of the 'maturity (adult learners) clause' are required to sit for an interview, held on a date which will be announced in due course.

Applicants may also be required to submit a Learning Portfolio. Further information about the Portfolio will be forwarded to applicants.

Applicants wishing to join the part-time mode must submit their application as full-time, and then include a note in the comments box of the application form, denoting their preference to be considered for the part-time option. Such requests will be considered by the Board of the Faculty.


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Theatre Studies

 
Semester 1
 
Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)
 
THS1100 Histories of Theatre 1 6 ECTS      
THS1104 Performance Skills 1: Training 5 ECTS      
THS1106 Studying Performance 4 ECTS      

 
 
Semester 2
 
Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)
 
THS1101 Histories of Theatre 2 6 ECTS      
THS1105 Performance Skills 2: Festival 5 ECTS      

 
Requirement for regular progression to Year 2:
26 credits in Theatre Studies
26 credits in the other area
8 credits in optional study-units

Total credits for this year: 60 credits

In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to choose study-units to the value of 26 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.
 
Semester 1
 
Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)
 
PFA2004 Interdisciplinary Theories of Performance 5 ECTS      
THS2200 Theatrical Texts 5 ECTS      
 
Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)
 
PFA2005 Performance and Philosophy 4 ECTS      
PFA2006 Musical Theatre: Histories and Training 4 ECTS      
THS2106 Applied Performance 1: Skills 4 ECTS      
THS2110 Modern Theatre and Performance 5 ECTS      
THS2111 Contemporary Theatre and Performance 5 ECTS      
THS2112* Interdisciplinary Practices 4 ECTS      
THS2202 Theatre Skills: Acting 6 ECTS      

* Study-unit THS2112 can only be taken after consultation with the Theatre Studies Head of Department. In order to register, a confirmation email/note should be attached with the student registration form.
 
 
Semester 2
 
Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)
 
THS2103 Theories of Performance: Critical Perspectives 5 ECTS      
THS2109 Theatre and Performance in Malta 5 ECTS      
 
Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)
 
PFA2007 Musical Theatre: Performance 4 ECTS      
THS2107 Arts and Cultural Management 1: Theories and Perspectives 6 ECTS      
THS2108 Popular Performance 5 ECTS      
THS2113** Performance and Scientific Perspectives 4 ECTS      
THS2201 Theatre Skills: Writing for the theatre 5 ECTS      
THS2203 Theatre Skills: Directing 4 ECTS      

** Study-unit THS2113 can only be taken after consultation with the Theatre Studies Head of Department. In order to register, a confirmation email/note should be attached with the student registration form.
 
Requirement for regular progression to Year 3:
46 ECTS credits in Theatre Studies
10 ECTS credits in the subsidiary area
4 ECTS credits optional study-units

Total credits for this year: 60 ECTS credits

In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to choose study-units to the value of 36 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.
 
Year   (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2)
 
Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)
 
THS3094 Dissertation 12 ECTS   (NC)    

 
 
Semester 1
 
Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)
 
THS2106 Applied Performance 1: Skills 4 ECTS      
THS3107 Arts and Cultural Management 2: Placement 6 ECTS      
THS3108 Musicality in Theatre and Performance 6 ECTS      
THS3110 Shakespeare in Performance 6 ECTS      
THS3112* Advanced Topic in Theatre Studies 1 4 ECTS      
THS3114 Practice Research 6 ECTS      

* Study-unit THS3112 can only be taken after consultation with the Theatre Studies Head of Department. In order to register, a confirmation email/note should be attached with the student registration form.
 
 
Semester 2
 
Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)
 
THS3095 Synoptic Study-Unit 1: Theatre Studies 6 ECTS   (NC)    
THS3096 Synoptic Study-Unit 2: Theatre Studies 6 ECTS   (NC)    
 
Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)
 
THS3106 Applied Performance 2: Community Project 6 ECTS      
THS3109 World and Intercultural Performance 6 ECTS      
THS3113** Advanced Topic in Theatre Studies 2 4 ECTS      

** Study-unit THS3113 can only be taken after consultation with the Theatre Studies Head of Department. In order to register, a confirmation email/note should be attached with the student registration form.
 
Requirement for successful completion of Year 3: 60 ECTS credits

Requirement for award of B.A. (Hons) in Theatre Studies: 180 ECTS credits, of which:
132 ECTS credits in Theatre Studies
36 ECTS credits in the subsidiary area
12 ECTS credits optional study-units

English

In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to choose study-units to the value of 4 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.
 
Year   (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2)
 
Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)
 
ENG1077 Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introduction 6 ECTS   (NC)    
ENG1082 Shakespeare and Tudor Drama 4 ECTS   (NC)    
 
Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)
 
ENG1076 Genre: Prose 4 ECTS      

 
 
Semester 1
 
Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)
 
ENG1083 Introduction to English Syntax and Phonetics 4 ECTS   (NC)    
ENG1173 Romantic Poets 1: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge 2 ECTS      
ENG1174 English Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction 2 ECTS      

 
 
Semester 2
 
Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)
 
ENG1078 Writing Seminars 1 2 ECTS      
ENG1274 English Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: Further Studies 2 ECTS      
 
Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)
 
ENG1071 Chaucer: An Introduction 2 ECTS      
ENG1080 English in Society 1 4 ECTS      
ENG1273 Romantic Poets 2: Byron, Keats, Shelley 2 ECTS      
ENG1278 The Art of the Essay 2 ECTS      

 
Requirement for regular progression to Year 2:
26 ECTS credits in English
26 ECTS credits in the other area
8 ECTS credits in optional study-units

Total credits for this year: 60 ECTS credits

Students are required to choose study-units to the value of 10 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.
 
Year   (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2)
 
Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)
 
ENG2033 Maltese Literature in English 4 ECTS      
ENG2077 Practical Criticism 4 ECTS      
ENG2081 The Modern Novel 4 ECTS      
ENG2099 From Plato to Pater 4 ECTS      

 
 
Semester 1
 
Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)
 
ENG2031 Studying English Language at Undergraduate Level 2 ECTS      
ENG2049 Topics in English Pragmatics 2 ECTS      
ENG2053 The Postcolonial Novel (Australian) 2 ECTS      
ENG2054 Metaphysical Poetry and Baroque Writing in England 4 ECTS      
ENG2068 Medieval Literature into Film 2 ECTS      
ENG2071 Shakespeare into Film 2 ECTS      
ENG2078 Writing Seminars 2 2 ECTS      
ENG2096 The Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle 2 ECTS      
ENG2118 Aspects of English Phonology 2 ECTS      
ENG2133 Maltese Literature in English: Prose 2 ECTS      
ENG2177 Practical Criticism: Narrative 2 ECTS      
ENG2180 Nineteenth Century American Poetry: An Introduction 2 ECTS      
ENG2199 From Plato to Pater (Part 1) 2 ECTS      
ENG2255 Eighteenth-Century Prose 2: Further Studies 2 ECTS      
ENG2290 Genre: Creative Nonfiction 4 ECTS      
ENG2480 English in Society 2 4 ECTS      
ENG3091 Linguistics Seminar 1 and 2 4 ECTS      

 
 
Semester 2
 
Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)
 
ENG1372 Shakespeare: The Second Tetralogy of History Plays 2 ECTS      
ENG2007 Milton and the Epic Voice 4 ECTS      
ENG2030 Second Language Acquisition of English 2 ECTS      
ENG2041 High Modernism in English and American Literature 2 ECTS      
ENG2042 The English Novel in the Later Nineteenth Century: Henry James 2 ECTS      
ENG2052 The Postcolonial Novel 1: African 2 ECTS      
ENG2057 Stylistics 4 ECTS      
ENG2063 Theories of Literature 3: Gender and Power 2 ECTS      
ENG2064 Theories of Literature 4: Postcolonialism 2 ECTS      
ENG2066 Current Debates in Literary Theory 2 ECTS      
ENG2067 Chaucer and Medieval Literature 2 ECTS      
ENG2092 Travel Writing 2 ECTS      
ENG2097 Children's Literature 2 ECTS      
ENG2173 Modern Drama 2 ECTS      
ENG2176 Victorian Poetry 2 ECTS      
ENG2276 Modern Poetry 2 ECTS      
ENG2277 Practical Criticism: Poetry 2 ECTS      
ENG2299 English Language Studies IV 4 ECTS      
ENG2333 Maltese Literature in English: Poetry 2 ECTS      
ENG2380 Nineteenth Century American Short Story 2 ECTS      

 

This programme of study is governed by the General Regulations for University Undergraduate Awards, 2019 and by the Bye-Laws for the award of the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - B.A. (Hons) - under the auspices of the Faculty of Arts.

Theatre Studies

Upon successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Carry out research and write academic essays through your refined sense of critical thought about the performative arts.
  • Contribute to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary discussions through your unique knowledge of the subject matter.
  • Speak fluently about the history, practicality and practices of theatre in contemporary performances.
  • Display critical thought and knowledge through your independent work and production.
  • Use your refined awareness and eye for detail to discuss and interpret contemporary productions and performances.

Non EU Applicants:

Fee per academic year: Eur 8,500

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Theatre Studies

As a graduate in this programme of study you will have career opportunities, both locally and internationally, as an acting couch, actor, activist, casting director, critic, journalist, reporter, publicist, playwright, drama teacher, costume designer, theatre manager, script writer and community worker. If you are interested in furthering your studies or are considering an academic profession, then we encourage you to enrol in one of our postgraduate courses.


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