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STA Programme Requirements 2025/26

2. Drama

2.3. Drama with Creative Writing (WAYA)

First Year 2025-26 Second Year 2025-26 Final Year 2025-26
  • DRA123 Power Plays (15 credits)
  • DRA124 Making Theatre and Performance (30 credits)
  • ESH4101 Introduction to Creative Writing (30 credits)
  • DRA125 Performance, Acting, Text (30 credits)
  • DRA122 Spectatorship: Time, Place, Performance (15 credits)
  • 90 credits at Level 5
  • DRA242 Group Practical Project (30 credits)
  • ESH5103 Creative Writing Prose (15 credits)
  • DRA5100 Creative Writing Playwriting (15 credits)
  • EITHER:
  • 2 x 15 credit DRA-coded modules at Level 5 AND 1 x 30 credit DRA-coded module at Level 5
  • OR
  • 30 credits of optional modules from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Level 5 (can take 30 credits of Language Modules offered by the School of the Arts at Level 4 OR 15 credits of BSc/LMM Modules at Level 4)
  • 90 credits of Level 6
  • Take EITHER:
  • DRA329 Written Research Project (30 credits)
  • OR
  • ESH6199 Creative Writing Dissertation (30 credits)
  • 30 credits of DRA/ESH-coded Creative Writing Optional modules (Normally 2 x 15 credits, one in each semester)
  • EITHER:
  • 1 x 30 credit DRA-coded module at Level 6 AND 2 x 15 credit DRA-coded modules at Level 6
  • OR
  • 30 credits of optional modules from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Level 5 or 6


    • All students are required to take 120 credits in each academic year. It is not possible to take less, or more than 120 credits.
    • Students should normally take a balance of 60-60 credits worth of modules in each semester. A 75-45 split might be accepted as an exception, but it will mean a workload-heavy Semester 1 that students may find challenging. A 45-75 split is not permitted.
    • Some programmes allow modules to be taken at a different level of the student’s programme of study (first year = Level 4, second year = Level 5, final year = Level 6), but we strongly recommend that students going into their second year choose all their credits to be at Level 5, and students going into their final year choose all their credits to be at Level 6. This is to ensure that students meet their progression and/or degree classification requirements as explained in the Academic Regulations.