Course Summary

With our BA (Hons) Drama degree, we’ll help you to grow into a confident, versatile and exciting drama practitioner withtransferable skills to suit the field you want to work in. With a strong focus on performance, you’ll get to work on public productions as well as smaller-scale projects, exploringpractices from the 20th century onwards and devising your own productions. We’ll encourage you to create innovative and daring performance practice as you develop expertise in group collaborationalongside your own solo performances. You’ll also get the chance to weight your studies to suit your interests, be that dramapractice, specialising in backstage production or even theatre administration. Performing is at the core of our Drama degree at ARU. You’ll follow an experiential 'learning-through-doing' programme and your degree will see you choosing from a range of career-focused optional modules, completing a 100% practical Major Project, and graduating with a professionally produced showreeland portfolio. As a student here, you’ll develop your technical and production skills in our specialist facilities. Our technical staff will be on handto offer help and support. You can also choose to study abroad for a semester, with funding available to help cover the cost. Closer to home, you can connect with Cambridge’s performance scene through our links to local networks such as CambridgeArts Network and Cambridge Live. You’ll get the chance to perform in public venues around Cambridge as well as on campus, inthe Mumford Theatre and Covent Garden Studio. Experience being part of a professional troupe with our very own Community Theatre Company and take the chance to performand collaborate with other creative industries students. You’ll be able to collaborate with other Cambridge School of Creative Industries student such as our film students who needactors for their films. We’ll also support you to find placements and work experience

Course Details - Modules

Year 1: Studio Performance. Theatre Analysis.Production Skills.Staging and Production.Applied Drama. Year 2: Making Performance.Ruskin Module.Community Theatre Performance. Year 3: Work Placement (Cambridge School of Creative Industries). Year 4: Undergraduate Major Project.Festival of Performance Optional Modules Year 2: Physical Theatre.Professional Theatre Practice 1 Practice as Research.Performing Shakespeare.Scenes and Shorts. Year 4: Site-Specific and Immersive Theatre. TV Drama Production.Professional Theatre Practice 2.Workshop Facilitation. Provocations.

Course Details – Assessment Method

You’ll show your progress mainly through performance and practical work, with some small written components or longer essaysif you choose theoretical options. Methods of assessment will include studio and public performances, presentations, criticalreflections, and a Major Project, which can be practical or written work.

Course Details – Professional Bodies

Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.

How to Apply

26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application Codes

Course code: W495

Institution code: A60

Campus Name: Cambridge Campus

Campus code:

Points of Entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.

International applicants

Standard Qualification Requirements

from a minimum of 2 A Levels (or equivalent), preferably to include Drama, Theatre Studies or a related subject.


If English is not your first language you will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 6.0 (Academic level) or equivalent English Language qualification, as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University. You may also be accepted to this course with an IELTS 5.5 (Academic level- with no individual score being lower than 5.5) or equivalent English Language qualification as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University, but will then be required to undertake additional compulsory free English language modules in your first year.

Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course

https://aru.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/drama

Minimum Qualification Requirements

Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.

English language requirements

Test Grade AdditionalDetails
English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.

Unistats information

Student satisfaction : 68%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 50%

Go onto work and study: 65%

Fees and funding

England 9250.0 Year 1
Northern Ireland 9250.0 Year 1
Scotland 9250.0 Year 1
Wales 9250.0 Year 1
Channel Islands 9250.0 Year 1
Republic of Ireland 9250.0 Year 1

Additional Fee Information

Please note the fee for the placement year is £1250 (This is a provisional fee and subject to change) https://aru.ac.uk/student-life/preparing-for-university/help-with-finances/undergraduate 2022 international fees are to be confirmed

Provider information

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