Drama and History
Entry requirements
A level
This must include at least one essay based A-Level in a humanities or social sciences subject Excluded subjects - General Studies and Critical Thinking.
Access to HE Diploma
We consider applications from students with the Access to Higher Education Diploma. The minimum academic requirement is to achieve 60 credits overall with 45 credits at Level 3, of which 15 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher. This must include at least 6 Level 3 credits in History modules at Distinction.
We consider applications from students offering an EPQ and may make an alternative offer to include three A levels, one grade lower than our usual requirement, along with a specific grade in the EPQ. For further information please visit: qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/entry/epq
GCSE/National 4/National 5
A minimum of five GCSE passes to include English at grade C or 4 or an acceptable equivalent will be required.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
6,5,5 in HL subjects, including at least one essay based humanities or social sciences subject
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About this course
Explore the relationship between drama and history with this interdisciplinary programme.
Our BA Drama and History programme gives you the opportunity to explore theatre and the times and places in which it has happened. You will investigate the fascinating relationship between performance and history, through lectures, seminars, making performance, field work and more. You will study compulsory History and Drama modules, while gaining increasing freedom to study the topics and historical periods that interest you most over the course of the degree—whether that’s discovering what it was like to go to the theatre in nineteenth-century London, delving into the relationship between empire and performance, and more. Queen Mary's work in both Drama and History is internationally renowned, you will be taught by some of the world’s leading academics and artists in both subjects, who will help you develop into informed critics, historians, performance makers and writers.
Modules
Year 1
You will take these compulsory modules:
London/Culture/Performance (15 credits)
Beyond Acting (30 credits)
Power Plays (15 credits)
History in Practice (15 credits)
Either Unravelling Britain: British History since 1801 or Global Encounters: conquest and Culture in World History (both 15 credits)
You choose your remaining 30 credits from a selection of Level 4 History modules that changes each year
Please note that all modules are subject to change. Further information about modules in Year 2 and 3 of the course can be found on our course webpage.
Assessment methods
Assessment typically includes a combination of written and practical assignments, such as essays, performances, presentations, portfolios, scripts, programme notes, reviews, feature articles, artist websites, podcasts and dissertations. Some assessment is based around group work, especially for performance projects and presentations.
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Queen Mary University of London
English and Drama
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History is a very popular subject (although numbers have fallen of late) — in 2015, over 10,000 UK students graduated in a history-related course. Obviously, there aren't 11,000 jobs as historians available every year, but history is a good, flexible degree that allows graduates to go into a wide range of different jobs, and consequently history graduates have an unemployment rate comparable to the national graduate average. Many — probably most — jobs for graduates don't ask for a particular degree to go into them and history graduates are well set to take advantage. That's why so many go into jobs in the finance industry, human resources, marketing, PR and events management, as well as the more obvious roles in education, welfare and the arts. Around one in five history graduates went into further study last year. History and teaching were the most popular further study subjects for history graduates, but law, journalism, and politics were also popular postgraduate courses.
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