BA Drama and English Literature
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and Performance and design for theatre and screen, combining textual analysis with theatre and film studies. Core topics include Programming, Research Methods, and Ethics & Professional Practice. Students build a foundation in both subjects during the first year before pursuing specialised interests in Years 2 and 3.
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Entry requirements
A level: AAB including A in English Literature or English Language & Literature
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Real offers for this course
Applicants have posted 1 UCAS decision for BA Drama and English Literature (WQ4H) at the University of Manchester for 2027 entry so far. The published offer is AAB at A level.
What students say
Based on about 16 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 88%
- Learning opportunities: 80%
- Assessment and feedback: 69%
- Academic support: 95%
- Organisation and management: 79%
- Learning resources: 83%
- Student voice: 62%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 30 students who started
- Continued on course: 95%
- Left higher education: 5%
What graduates do next
Based on about 29 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 67%
- Working and studying: 13%
- Further study: 7%
- Unemployed: 7%
Most common jobs
- Business and public service associate professionals: 15%
- Elementary occupations: 13%
- Teaching Professionals: 12%
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 10%
- Media Professionals: 9%
- Find their work meaningful: 70%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 60%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 30%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 115 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 2%
- North West: 36%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 3%
- East Midlands: 3%
- West Midlands: 7%
- East of England: 2%
- London: 27%
- South East: 9%
- South West: 4%
- Wales: 3%
- Scotland: 1%
- Northern Ireland: 3%
Who gets in
Based on about 35 students who started
- A levels: 90%
- Baccalaureate: 10%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Silver for student experience, Gold for student outcomes.
Modules
- Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies
- Reading Literature
- The Art of Film
- Theatre and Performance Histories
- Performance Practices 1
- Performance Practices 2
- Introduction to Early Film Histories
- Mapping the Medieval
- Theory and Text
- Literature and History
- Introduction to World Cinema
- Theatres of Modernity
- Contemporary British Cinema
- Screen, Culture and Society
- Black on Screen
- Post-Thatcher British Theatre: New Writing Since 1992
- Performing America
- God at the Movies
- Devising for Performance
- Introduction to Documentary Film Practice
- Playmaking
- Solo Performance A
- Solo Performance B
- Drama in Education
- Horror Film: Genre, Periods, Styles
- Social Acts: Applied Theatre and Socially Engaged Arts Practice
- Theatres of Spontaneity
- Introduction to Screenwriting
- Discipline and Punish: The Modern Prison on Stage and Screen
- Creative Writing: Fiction
- Chaucer: Texts, Contexts, Conflicts
- Shakespeare
- Gender, Sexuality and the Body: Theories and Histories
- Writing, Identity and Nation
- Postcolonial World Literatures
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Medieval Metamorphoses
- Renaissance Literature
- Old English: Writing the Unreadable Past
- Satire and Sentiment: British Literature, 1660–1820
- Modernism
- Romanticism (1776 - 1832)
- Victorian Literature
- Archiving Culture
- Love American Style
- History of California
- Harlem and the State of Urban America
- Climate Change & Culture Wars
- Dissertation in Drama/Film (Semester One)
- Dissertation in Drama/Film (Semester Two)
- Docufiction Filmmaking
- Applied Theatre: Theatre in Prisons
- Writing For Performance
- Performance and Public Space
- Professional Practices: Dramaturgy, Curation and Creative Programming
- Queer Bodies and the Cinema
- Directing Theatre
- Screening the Holocaust
- Activist Performance
- Social Lives of Cinema
- Extended Dissertation
- Falstaff and Gandalf go to the Movies: Adapting Fantastic Texts to Screen
- Contemporary Theatre-Making
- Global Television Industries
- Contemporary Documentary Film Making
- Screen Acting & Stardom
- Theatre, performance and care: studying artful care and careful art
- Long Essay
- Creative Writing: Fiction
- Culture and Conflict: Neoliberalism and Cultural Production
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Irish Fiction Since 1990
- Radical Turns: Culture and Politics in the 1930s
- Culture and Politics in the Contemporary Global Novel
- Eros: Love and Desire in Victorian Poetry
- The History of the Book in Early Modern England
- Apocalypse: Early Modern Imaginings
- Queer Forms: Objects and Animals in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
- Hypercontemporary Queer and Trans Fiction
- Haunting the Stage: The Supernatural in Early Modern Drama
- Things that Talk: Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture
- Culture and Politics in the Contemporary British Novel
- British Fiction and Empire in the Twentieth Century
- Creative Writing: Creative Non-Fiction
- Romantic Venice
- Co-operation, Competition, and Happiness: Dangerous Ideas in the Nineteenth Century
- Crime and Contemporary Culture
- Vital Matters: Medieval Ecologies
- Humans and other Animals in Contemporary Literature
- Women’s Writing, Citizenship, and Political Radicalism
- Literary and Sexual Experimentalism Between the Wars
- Contemporary South Asian Literatures
- Literary Landscapes
- Imaginations of the Future: People, Earth and Power
- Interdisciplinary Literature and Theology: Empathy, Ethics, Liberation
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Drama and English Literature at University of Manchester earn?
The median salary is £25,500 after 15 months, £21,000 after 3 years, £29,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £25,000 and £36,000. The £29,000 median after five years is £1,000 more than the UK median for Literature in English.
What do graduates of BA Drama and English Literature at University of Manchester do next?
87% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Drama and English Literature at University of Manchester?
88% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Drama and English Literature at University of Manchester?
The typical offer is AAB at A level. The average entrant had 159 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA Drama and English Literature at University of Manchester?
95% of students continued into their second year, and 5% left higher education.