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Overview
Drama is a powerful, captivating, and collaborative artform. It invites us to reflect on ourselves and the world around us, to tell compelling stories, and to explore bold new ideas. Whether on page, stage, or screen, drama sparks our imagination. It offers rich forms of expression and provides us with frameworks for understanding – and changing – the world.
Drama at UEA offers a dynamic combination of practical, historical, and critical study, with an emphasis on practical skills and exploration. As a UEA Drama graduate, you’ll leave with a rich skill set that demonstrates your adaptability, resilience and versatility. These are qualities that open doors to a wide range of career paths. You’ll learn from experienced artists and researchers who’ll support you in developing both your critical thinking and creative practice, whether your passion lies in acting, directing, design, technical theatre, writing or theatre-making. On BA Drama with a Year Abroad, you’ll have the exciting opportunity to spend your third year studying at one of our partner institutions across the globe.
You can choose to study specialist pathways in acting, theatre-making, or technical theatre, or explore a mixture of them all. You’ll study a range of theatre from around the world, engaging with major theoretical approaches, with actor- and director-training, and with techniques for creating your own work. You’ll learn about cutting-edge theatre companies and innovative writers. Through all this, you’ll become an engaged, reflective, and creative thinker and theatre-maker.
You’ll work in our professional Drama Studio and will benefit from our highly regarded student-run Minotaur Theatre Company. This will give you the chance to gain even more performance, technical, and scriptwriting experience. Studying in Norwich means you’ll have access to a rich arts scene, including Norwich Theatre, Norwich Arts Centre, and Maddermarket Theatre.
You’ll develop skills for a fulfilling career in the creative industries, such as in theatre, film, or radio. Or you might take your skills in collaboration, presentation, and critical thinking into a host of other professions.
Disclaimer
Course details are subject to change. You should always confirm the details on the provider's website: www.uea.ac.uk
The following entry points are available for this course:
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Contextual offer: BBC
Contextual offer: DMM
Please see UEA website for further information on accepted combinations.
Excludes BTEC Public Services, BTEC Uniformed Services and BTEC Business
Administration.
Humanities & Social Sciences pathway.
Contextual offer: Humanities & Social Sciences pathway. Pass the Access to HE Diploma with Merit in 30 credits at Level 3 and pass in 15 credits at Level 3.
Principal subjects and A-level combinations are considered - please contact us.
GCSE Requirements: GCSE English Language grade 4 or C and GCSE Mathematics grade 4 or C.
UEA are committed to ensuring that Higher Education is accessible to all, regardless of their background or experiences. One of the ways we do this is through our contextual admissions schemes – please see our website www.uea.ac.uk/apply/undergraduate/contextual-admissions for further information.
We welcome a wide range of qualifications - for further information please visit our website www.uea.ac.uk
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
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| IELTS (Academic) | 6.5 | IELTS: 6.5 overall (minimum 5.5 in each component) |
English Language Equivalencieshttps://www.uea.ac.uk/apply/our-admissions-policy/english-language-equivalencies
This course may make contextual offers. This means that we use additional information to understand and recognise your potential to succeed at UEA. Using this insight, we could provide you with an offer with reduced entry requirements to study at UEA. You don’t need to do anything to be considered – if eligible we will process your contextual offer automatically, based on the data we hold in your application. We do not make contextual offers during clearing. Check our website for eligibility.
This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).
It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.
Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.
We are unable to show previous accepted grades for this course. This could be because the course is new, it's a postgraduate course, there isn't enough historical data, or the provider has opted out of sharing their entry grades data for this course - learn more.
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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
Tuition fees increase annually for all students in subsequent years of study. Any fee increase is based on the fee for the year that you register. Home undergraduate fees, whose rates are regulated by the UK Government, will be amended in line with any alteration advised by the UK Government. Fees not regulated by the UK Government will increase by a maximum of 4% or RPI-X whichever is the higher. RPI-X is the Retail Prices Index excluding mortgage interest.
For further information about additional costs for your course and information on fee status please see our website.
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