Courses and structure Credits and levels of learning An undergraduate honours degree is made up of 360 credits – 120 at Level 4, 120 at Level 5 and 120 at Level 6. If you are a full-time student, you will usually take Level 4 courses in the first year, Level 5 in the second, and Level 6 courses in your final year. The programme can be studied through two pathways: Drama or English. These pathways diverge at the end of the second year. You choose the pathway of the final year by the end of the autumn term of the second year, although you will be asked to give a provisional indication of your choice when enrolling. Drama English* First year courses (120 credits) Analytic Vocabularies Theatre Making: Process and Performance Drama Production: Summer Projects Explorations in Literature Introduction to the Short Story Introduction to Poetry Second year courses (120 credits) Elements of Theatre History (30 credits) and either: Modernisms and Postmodernity A and B (30 credits) or Performance Theory/Practice (30 credits) Courses to make up a total of 60 credits from recommended list Third year courses (120 credits) Drama ‘Pathway’: From Drama: Dramaturgy (30 credits) Culture and Performance: Critical Theory (15 credits) Culture and Performance: Options (15 credits) From English: Course/courses worth 30 credits An interdisciplinary dissertation English ‘Pathway’: Courses to make up 60 credits from English Dramaturgy 1 course from Drama An interdisciplinary dissertation Year 1 (Level 4) English courses Explorations in Literature This course introduces a wide range of works covering the major literary genres and embodying significant interventions or influences in the history of literature. The emphasis is on reading primary texts and discovering (or rediscovering) writers and cultures so that you will be able to make informed choices among more specialised courses later in your degree. Introduction to Poetry This course subdivides into two five-week sections, on ‘practice’ and ‘close readings’. The first concentrates on pivotal and innovative figures and movements in poetry from the early modern period to the present day, and the second explores fundamental issues in poetry through the lens of individual poems. Both sections are presented with the support of the department’s creative practitioners. Introduction to the Short Story This course introduces you to the short story form and to samples of tales from a range of literary traditions and historical periods. In particular, you are presented with examples of the importance and development of the short-story genre within different national traditions. You will discuss the relationship between oral and written narrative form and study classical sub-genres such as the ‘tale of terror’. Drama courses Analytic Vocabularies Theatre Making: Process and Performance For details of these courses, see the BA Drama & Theatre Arts page. Drama Production: Summer Projects This course runs in the summer term. You will be able to explore your critical skills in a performance practice context, focusing on design, stage management and direction. Year 2 (Level 5) English courses Choose courses to the value of 60 credits from the recommended list. Courses may vary from year to year, but recent courses have included: Drama and Transgression: From Prometheus to Faust Inventing the Nation: American Literature in the mid-19th Century Literature of the English Renaissance Literature of the Later Middle-Ages: Society and the Individual Moderns Old English Post-Victorian English Literature Restoration and 18th-century Literature Sensibility and Romanticism: Revolutions in Writing and Society Shakespeare Varieties of English The Victorians For course descriptions, see the BA English page. Drama courses Elements of Theatre History and either Modernisms and Postmodernity A and B or Performance Theory/Practice For details of these courses, see the BA Drama & Theatre Arts page. Please note that options are likely to change from year to year, depending on staff availability and research interests. Year 3 (Level 6) English Pathway An interdisciplinary dissertation – a pass in this is compulsory for the award of the degree. English courses Choose courses to the value of 60 credits from the recommended list. Courses may vary from year to year, but recent courses have included: Caribbean Women Writers Creating the Text Decadence The Emergence of Modern America: American Literature 1890-1940 Language and the Media Literature in Question: Writing since World War II Modern American Fiction Modern Poetry Modernism & Drama (1880-1930) The Art of the Novel Oedipus: Myths, Tragedies and Theories Postcolonial Literatures in English Studies in Literature and Film For course descriptions, see the BA English page. Drama course Dramaturgy 1 For details of this course, see the BA Drama & Theatre Arts page. Year 3 (Level 6) Drama Pathway An interdisciplinary dissertation – a pass in this is compulsory for the award of the degree. English courses Choose courses to the value of 30 credits from the recommended list. Courses may vary from year to year, but recent courses have included: Caribbean Women Writers Creating the Text Decadence The Emergence of Modern America: American Literature 1890-1940 Language and the Media Literature in Question: Writing since World War II Modern American Fiction Modern Poetry Modernism & Drama (1880-1930) The Art of the Novel Oedipus: Myths, Tragedies and Theories Postcolonial Literatures in English Studies in Literature and Film For course descriptions, see the BA English page. Drama courses Dramaturgy Culture and Performance: Critical Theory Culture and Performance: Options For details of these courses, see the BA Drama & Theatre Arts page. Assessment Examination, coursework portfolios, long essays, projects, presentations, production plans, dissertation. The dissertation must be passed for the degree to be awarded.

Skills and careers Skills This degree will enable you to become articulate, critical, independent and self-initiating by developing a range of transferable skills, including the ability to: develop analytical skills and proficiency in assessing evidence work practically as an individual and in groups analyse personal practice in relation to theoretical models research and present complex information present ideas and analysis in a variety of formats document and record ideas and information take responsibility for your own ideas and respond creatively to the ideas of others work to a deadline share work responsibly communicate and write clearly practise self-discipline These skills are attractive to a variety of employers. Careers When you graduate you might, like many of our students, go on to work in the theatre or related media, in publishing, administration, programming, project management, development work, marketing and publicity, management or technical production. You may choose undertake further specialist training to work as a teacher or arts therapist, or go on to higher level academic study. Further information Find out more about employability at Goldsmiths