BA Drama and English
About this course
BA (Hons) in English and Performance and design for theatre and screen, combining English and Performance and design for theatre and screen. Core topics include Research Methods. Students complete a Drama Dissertation and a Final Year Performance Festival.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 30 points
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What students say
Based on about 13 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 88%
- Learning opportunities: 76%
- Assessment and feedback: 76%
- Academic support: 91%
- Organisation and management: 84%
- Learning resources: 81%
- Student voice: 71%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 15 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 90%
- Left higher education: 15%
What graduates do next
Based on about 11 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 90%
- Unemployed: 10%
Most common jobs
- Elementary occupations: 20%
- Teaching Professionals: 10%
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 10%
- Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations: 10%
- Managers, directors and senior officials: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 75%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 60%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 60%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 20 graduates, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- East Midlands: 5%
- East of England: 20%
- London: 45%
- South East: 20%
- South West: 10%
Who gets in
Based on about 10 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 100%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Bronze for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- Burning to Read
- Staging Plays
- Making Performance
- World Making
- Contemporary Performance Project
- In the Embers of Empire: Reading Postcolonial Texts Today
- Language for Life
- Liberty and Horror
- Literature and Philosophy
- Novels (how to read them and why)
- The Art of Short Fiction
- Word & Image
- (Re)thinking Civilization
- Global Modernisms
- Performing Practices
- Right Here! Right Now! Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture
- Romance
- Sexuality and the Rise of Fiction
- Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare
- Writing for Theatre
- Writing Poetry
- Drama Dissertation
- Final Year Performance Festival
- Posthuman/Premodern
- Psychoanalysis and Literature
- Serial Fictions
- Topics in African American Literature
- Virginia Woolf
- Writing Race, Gender, and the Social: Experiments Beyond Representation
- Championing Literacy Placement
- Decolonial Literature, Politics, Writing
- Gender, Race and Society in Early Modern Drama
- Modern Nature
- Queer Fictions
- Sussex Modernism
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Drama and English at University of Sussex earn?
The median salary is £19,500 after 3 years, £29,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £23,500 and £34,500. The £29,000 median after five years is the same as the UK median for English studies.
What do graduates of BA Drama and English at University of Sussex do next?
90% 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 at University of Sussex?
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 at University of Sussex?
The typical offer is BBB at A level, or 30 points in the IB. The average entrant had 119 UCAS points.
Does BA Drama and English at University of Sussex include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has an optional placement year and an optional year abroad.
How many students continue on BA Drama and English at University of Sussex?
90% of students continued into their second year, and 15% left higher education.