Drama

Undergraduate Drama courses

Drama Course Brochure

What’s it about?

We are a dynamic and creative Drama department housed in one of the best resourced facilities in Europe. Our course focuses on contemporary theatre and performance and allows you to develop breadth of understanding alongside specialist skills.

Each term you will be rehearsing and performing a play that is either an exploration and realisation of an existing text or that arises out of a creative devising process. These creative projects form the core of the work that you undertake on the Drama course. You will explore theories about performance through engaging in this and other practical work, and you will come to understand your practical work by exploring key performance theories. You will encounter major historical and contemporary practitioners and you will learn key research skills, helping you explore and communicate your understanding of the rich, complex world of contemporary performance.

You will learn how to do, and how to think – skills that you will need for your career, whether that’s in the creative industries or in one of the many alternative pathways our graduates pursue.

On your journey you will be guided by staff who have themselves worked at the meeting point of practice and theory. Many still work professionally as well as being established researchers and excellent teachers.

Be in demand

Drama at the University of Huddersfield had a 95.6% record of graduates finding employment or going on to further study within six months of graduation during 2009/10.

As a drama student, you will learn traditional academic skills, experience group working and develop creative problem solving as well as interpersonal communication skills and professional practice skills (such as performance, directing and writing). This will provide you with the ‘employability’ factor for a number of career options.

Graduates of a drama related subject are regarded as being creative and this is something employers look for when recruiting. Career opportunities include: writer, director, performer, teacher and community work.

Recent graduates have gone on to work with professional companies such as IOU Productions, Slung Low, Point Blank Theatre, Chol Theatre, The Sheffield Crucible and Proper Job Theatre.