Programme Specification for the 2020/1 academic year
BA (Hons) Drama and Film and Television Studies with Employment Experience
1. Programme Details
| Programme name | BA (Hons) Drama and Film and Television Studies with Employment Experience | Programme code | UFA4DRAEGL02 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Study mode(s) | Level 1 |
Academic year | 2020/1 |
| Campus(es) | Streatham (Exeter) |
NQF Level of the Final Award | 6 (Honours) |
2. Description of the Programme
The BA Drama and Film & Television Studies at the University of Exeter is a challenging and flexible degree that builds on two internationally-renowned centres of excellence in research, teaching and practice. Our teaching grows out of our wide-ranging, world-leading research and we provide a supportive and high-quality environment for learning. The programme provides you with a sense of the range and variety of textual, performance-based, filmic and televisual work, introduces you to theoretical approaches that enable you to engage critically with theatre, film and television in their historical and cultural contexts, and develops your imaginative and practical engagement with the art-forms.
Drama modules are taught by staff with expertise in theatre, drama, and performance theory from classical antiquity to the present-day, and in practice fields including acting, directing, scriptwriting, voice, applied theatre, live art, digital theatre-crafts, puppetry, dance, and intercultural performance training.
Film & Television Studies offers the opportunity to study an exciting range of film and television from different periods and international contexts; you will watch films from American, European, and other World cinemas, as well as learning about the trends and technologies of television. You will gain a deep and wide ranging knowledge of film and television as cultural, social, industrial and global phenomena and familiarity with different conceptual and theoretical approaches to them. The range of material studied will equip you to understand the complex histories of these media as well as how important issues of cultural difference are raised through them, giving you the tools and vocabulary to take a questioning attitude to your own media culture. We encourage you to make the most of the facilities available to broaden and enhance your study of film, not just on campus and in the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum but also through the lively film culture (art-house cinema, media facilities) in the city itself.
The programme covers a wide range of material allowing you to develop and follow your own interests with the provision of modules by active researchers who are at the forefront of their respective fields.
This programme is studied over four years. The first two years and the final year are university-based, and the third year is spent gaining employment experience at a suitable location in the UK.
This Employment Experience variant of the programme is a great way to incorporate graduate-level work placement or placements undertaken in the United Kingdom directly into your programme of study, to reflect critically upon these experiences, and for them to count towards the assessment of your degree. There is no better way to gain valuable employment experience that can be rewarded and recognised clearly by future employers. With preparation, support and approval from the College of Humanities, you can also demonstrate adaptability and resourcefulness by organising suitable placements in areas of employment related to your interests and potential future career.
You are required to find your own placement with suitable employers and organisations with preparation, support and approval from the College of Humanities. If you are taking this variant you are strongly encouraged to take HUM2000 or HUM2001 (Humanities in the Workplace) at stage 2 and must participate in the pre-departure briefing sessions for Humanities Employment Experience.
Advice and guidance on your programme can be sought from your personal tutor and programme director. All staff offer regular office hours that you can drop into without a prior appointment for this purpose.
3. Educational Aims of the Programme
The BA Drama and Film & Television Studies aims to:
- create an environment for scholarship and learning in which the stimulus for independent study is provided by an interest in and involvement with each discipline’s past, present and future potential.
- involve you in a wide range of learning with broad coverage, content, and methodology.
- create a genuine curiosity about each discipline and to recognise that this curiosity has to be grounded in engagement with the practice and analysis of the specific discipline.
- promote a sense of the complex social, cultural, and aesthetic interactions between the production and reception of scripted, performance-based, filmic and televisual works.
- foster in you, an appetite for, and skills to make, effective drama.
- enable and encourage you to engage with current critical and theoretical debates relating to film and television
- enable you to develop a high level of awareness, collaboration and co-operation in group activity.
- develop a clear sense of the interdependent relationship between theory/criticism and practice.
- provide a basis for further study in Drama, Film, Television, or related disciplines, and for teachers of Drama, Film and Television at all levels.
- develop a range of subject specific, academic and transferable skills, including high order conceptual literacy and communication skills, and those based on social interaction and communication.
4. Programme Structure
5. Programme Modules
The following tables describe the programme and constituent modules. Constituent modules may be updated, deleted or replaced as a consequence of the annual programme review of this programme.
http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/studying/undergraduates/modules/
In each stage you will take 60 credits’ worth of Drama modules and 60 credits’ worth of Film & Television modules.
You may take optional modules as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module.
You may take elective modules up to 30 credits outside of the programme in the second and final stages as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module.
Stage 1
60 credits of compulsory Drama modules and 60 credits of compulsory Film Studies modules.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRA1004 | Acting and Not Acting: The Dialectics of Performance | 30 | No |
| DRA1010 | Pretexts and Contexts of Drama 1 | 30 | No |
| EAF1501 | Major Debates in Film Theory | 30 | No |
| EAF1506 | Interrogating Screens | 30 | No |
Stage 2
30 credits of compulsory Drama modules, 30 credits of optional Drama modules, and 60 credits of optional Film Studies modules.
Subject to choosing 120 credits for the stage overall, you must:
a select DRA2064.
b select 0-30 credits from this list of Drama modules. You must take DRA2067 if you wish to take a practice option in the final stage (level 6).
c select 30-60 credits from this list of Film Studies modules.
d select 0-30 credits from this list Humanities in the Workplace modules.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRA2064 | Performance and Interpretation [See note a] | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRA S2 BA SH and CH opt 2020-1 [See note b] | |||
| DRA2007 | Theatre Practice II: Interpretative Acting | 30 | No |
| DRA2013 | Theatre Practice Dance/Choreography | 30 | No |
| DRA2026 | Applied Drama: Interactive Theatre | 30 | No |
| DRA2045 | Theatre and Health | 30 | No |
| DRA2061B | Digital Theatrecrafts | 30 | No |
| DRA2072 | Culture in / as Performance | 30 | No |
| DRA2073 | Social Practice in Art and Performance | 30 | No |
| DRA2085 | Cultures of the Street | 30 | No |
| DRA2087 | Activism and Performance | 30 | No |
| DRA2090 | Northcott Production | 30 | No |
| DRA2067 | Staging The Text | 30 | No |
| FST S2 BA CH opt 2020-1 [See note c] | |||
| EAF2502 | Shots in the Dark | 30 | No |
| EAF2508 | Cinescapes: Time, Space and Identity | 30 | No |
| EAF2510 | Adaptation: Text, Image, Culture | 30 | No |
| EAF2511 | Television: Times, Trends and Technologies | 30 | No |
| EAF2512 | European Cinemas: Art, Industry, Entertainment | 30 | No |
| MLF2065 | Contemporary French Film: Issues and Debates | 15 | No |
| AHV2013 | Photography and Evidence | 15 | No |
| HUM2004 | Making a Career in Publishing | 15 | No |
| HUM HUM2000-HUM2001 [See note d] | |||
| HUM2000 | Humanities in the Workplace | 30 | No |
| HUM2001 | Humanities in the Workplace | 15 | No |
Stage 3
120 credits of compulsory modules
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUM3998 | Employment Experience UK | 120 | Yes |
Stage 4
0-30 credits of compulsory Film Studies modules, 0-30 credits of compulsory Drama modules, 30-60 credits of optional Film Studies modules, and 30-60 credits of optional Drama modules.
Subject to choosing 120 credits for the stage overall, you must:
e select a Dissertation in either Drama or Film Studies: DRA3094 or EAF3514 or EAF3516 (you cannot choose more than one module from this group).
f select 30-60 credits from this list of Drama modules. If you select EAF3514 or EAF3516 as your Dissertation, you must select 60 credits of options from the Drama list.
g select 30-60 credits from this list of Film Studies modules. If you select DRA3094 as your Dissertation, you must select 60 credits of options from the Film Studies modules list.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRA3094, EAF3514, EAF3516 [See note e] | |||
| DRA3094 | Theatre Dissertation | 30 | No |
| EAF3514 | Film Studies Dissertation | 30 | No |
| EAF3516 | Creative Film Dissertation | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRA SF BA SH and CH opt 2020-1 [See note f] | |||
| DRA3009 | Theatre Practice II: Directing | 30 | No |
| DRA3011 | Practice II: Technical Specialisation | 30 | No |
| DRA3012 | Theatre Practice I: Applied Drama | 30 | No |
| DRA3030 | Interpretative Acting II | 30 | No |
| DRA3075 | Playwriting | 30 | No |
| DRA3076 | The Actor's Body: Intercultural Theories and Practices | 30 | No |
| DRA3087 | Working Together: Performer Training for Collective Creation | 30 | No |
| DRA3088 | Women and Theatre 1700-1928 | 30 | No |
| DRA3092 | Theatre for a Changing Climate | 30 | No |
| DRA3095 | Music Drama | 30 | No |
| DRA3096 | Wild Performances: Theatrical Encounters with Animals and Landscapes | 30 | No |
| DRA3100 | Physical Performance | 30 | No |
| FST SF BA CH opt 2020-1 [See note g] | |||
| EAS3128 | Writing the Short Film | 30 | No |
| EAS3177 | India Uncovered - Representations in Film and Fiction | 30 | No |
| EAF3501 | American Independent Film | 30 | No |
| EAF3513 | British Screens | 30 | No |
| EAF3515 | Something to See: War and Visual Media | 30 | No |
| EAF3518 | Queering British Film and Television | 30 | No |
| EAF3106 | Female Screens: Representation, Agency and Authorship | 30 | No |
| EAF3233 | Surrealism and Its Legacies | 30 | No |
| AHV3003 | The Face | 15 | No |
| AHV3004 | Victorian Visions: Art, Industry and the Modern | 30 | No |
6. Programme Outcomes Linked to Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods
Intended Learning Outcomes
A: Specialised Subject Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
1. Identify Drama and Film & television Studies as broad subject disciplines. | ILO’s 1-8 are acquired through lectures, seminars, workshops, studio-based sessions, rehearsals, study groups, tutorials and other learning activities throughout the programme. The degree of specialisation of subject knowledge increases during the programme, culminating in the dissertation and special subject modules. Modules in the final stage are most closely related to the research specialism of the staff teaching the module. The precise method of teaching varies according to each module. On team-taught modules you will normally engage in both lectures and seminar groups. In smaller options you will normally spend most of your contact time in seminar groups and workshops. Your learning is further developed through engagement with assessments, following guidance from tutors and lecturers and through feedback on work submitted. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of methods, which may include presentations, performance, and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, portfolios, essays, exams, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation. The assessment criteria pay full recognition to the importance of the various skills outlined. |
Intended Learning Outcomes
B: Academic Discipline Core Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
10. Draw thematic comparisons between materials from different sources. | ILO’s 10-15 are developed throughout the programme in all modules, with the emphasis becoming more complex as students move from stage to stage. They are developed through lectures, seminars, and studio work; written work, and oral work (both in practical presentation and seminar discussion), and reinforced through the range of modules across all three stages. They will culminate in the substantial and independent research skills demonstrated within the dissertation and stage three modules. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of methods, which may include presentations, performance, and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, portfolios, essays, exams, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation. |
Intended Learning Outcomes
C: Personal/Transferable/Employment Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
16. Apply advanced literacy and communication skills in appropriate contexts including the ability to present sustained and persuasive written and oral arguments. | Personal and key skills are delivered through all modules, and developed in lectures, workshops, study groups, tutorials, work experience and other learning activities throughout the programme. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of methods, which may include presentations, performance, and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, portfolios, essays, exams, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation. ILO’s 16 -21 are also strongly developed in the course of the assessed essays and other written work produced through all stages. These assessments work on the principle of offering formative feedback to support the development of your written work within as well as between modules. Feedback on one assignment is intended to inform the next piece of work you undertake on the module; the next piece of work on the programme, or the future learning of graduates. ILO 22 is associated especially with the range of group presentations, performances, studio-based sessions and practical tasks taking place in modules during all three levels. Group presentation assessment brings into focus an important range of skills for students, including sharing workloads, responsibility for tasks, team-working, collaborative and communicative skills. Individual contributions to group work are also assessed individually, most often in the form of a reflective presentation report or reflective portfolio. ILO’s 23-25 are also accomplished in the course of ‘real-time’ formal assessments such as presentations, performances, and end of module exams, which occur in all three levels of the programme. ILO 26 is particularly related to the optional module ‘Humanities in the Workplace’, and to the range of work conducted in the field beyond the University. |
7. Programme Regulations
Programme-specific Progression Rules
To progress to Stage 2 you must also achieve an average mark of at least 50% in Stage 1, otherwise you will be required to transfer to the relevant three-year programme. This is to ensure that only those students who are likely to succeed in their Employment Experience Year are selected.
HUM3998 Employment Experience UK counts as a single 120-credit module and is not condonable; you must pass this module to graduate with the degree title of BA Drama and film & Television Studies with Employment Experience. If you fail the Employment Experience your degree title will be commuted to BA Drama and Film & Television Studies.
Classification
Full details of assessment regulations for all taught programmes can be found in the TQA Manual, specifically in the Credit and Qualifications Framework, and the Assessment, Progression and Awarding: Taught Programmes Handbook. Additional information, including Generic Marking Criteria, can be found in the Learning and Teaching Support Handbook.
8. College Support for Students and Students' Learning
All students in Drama and Film & Television Studies have a personal tutor for their entire programme of study who is available at advertised ‘office hours’ (staff changes are likely due to Research Leave etc.). There are induction sessions to orientate students at the start of their programme. A personal tutoring system will operate with regular communication throughout the programme. Academic support will be also be provided by module leaders. You can also make an appointment to see individual teaching staff.
Programme handbooks and other useful information can be accessed via the student intranet: http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/studying/taughthandbook/.
Other useful information and student resources can be accessed via the Exeter Learning Environment (ELE): http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/login/index.php, which has specific information on library skills, essay writing and research skills.
9. University Support for Students and Students' Learning
Please refer to the University Academic Policy and Standards guidelines regarding support for students and students' learning.
10. Admissions Criteria
Undergraduate applicants must satisfy the Undergraduate Admissions Policy of the University of Exeter.
Postgraduate applicants must satisfy the Postgraduate Admissions Policy of the University of Exeter.
Specific requirements required to enrol on this programme are available at the respective Undergraduate or Postgraduate Study Site webpages.
11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards
Each academic programme in the University is subject to an agreed College assessment and marking strategy, underpinned by institution-wide assessment procedures.
The security of assessment and academic standards is further supported through the appointment of External Examiners for each programme. External Examiners have access to draft papers, course work and examination scripts. They are required to attend the Board of Examiners and to provide an annual report. Annual External Examiner reports are monitored at both College and University level. Their responsibilities are described in the University's code of practice. See the University's TQA Manual for details.
(http://as.exeter.ac.uk/support/admin/staff/qualityassuranceandmonitoring/tqamanual/fullcontents/)
12. Indicators of Quality and Standards
The programme is not subject to accreditation and/ or review by professional and statutory regulatory bodies (PSRBs).
13. Methods for Evaluating and Improving Quality and Standards
The University and its constituent Colleges draw on a range of data to review the quality of educational provision. The College documents the performance in each of its taught programmes, against a range of criteria on an annual basis through the Annual Programme Monitoring cycle:
- Admissions, progression and completion data
- In Year Analysis data
- Previous monitoring report
- Monitoring of core (and optional) modules
- External examiner's reports and University and College responses (reported to SSLC)
- Any Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Body/accrediting body or other external reports
- Consultation with employers and former students
- Staff evaluation
- Student evaluation
- Programme aims
Subject areas are reviewed every four years through a periodic subject review scheme that includes external contributions. (http://admin.exeter.ac.uk/academic/tls/tqa/Part%209/9JREVISEDPSRSCHEME.pdf)
14. Awarding Institution
University of Exeter
15. Lead College / Teaching Institution
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
16. Partner College / Institution
Partner College(s)
Not applicable to this programme
Partner Institution
Not applicable to this programme.
17. Programme Accredited / Validated by
Not applicable to this programme.
18. Final Award
BA (Hons) Drama and Film and Television Studies with Employment Experience
19. UCAS Code
W406
20. NQF Level of Final Award
6 (Honours)
21. Credit
| CATS credits | 480 |
ECTS credits | 240 |
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22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group
Level 1
23. Dates
| Origin Date | 20/05/2019 |
Date of last revision | 14/10/2020 |
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