Teaching & modules
Modules
Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.
Required modules
- Critical Practice: Genealogies of Performance (30 credits)
- Contemporary Theatres: London in Performance (30 credits)
Please note: if you are a part-time student, you will take only the above modules in your first year
- Dissertation (60 credits)
- Research Methods and Practice (30 credits)
Optional modules
In addition, you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional modules. If you are a part-time student, you take these modules in your second year. The list of options may typically include:
- Performance Lab (15 credits)
- Global/Local Shakespeares (15 credits)
A range of performance-focused modules from across the Faculty including from Departments such as Music, Film and French, which may typically including:
- Text, Image, Object and Gesture in Twentieth-Century French Writing (15 credits)
- The Body and Society in Early Modern Europe (15 credits)
- Medicine, Modernity and the Body (15 credits)
- Topics in Music of the 20th-21st Centuries (15 credits)
- Spanish American Theatre: Acts of Translation and Performance (15 credits)
- Cultural Memory (15 credits)
- Documenting the Camp: Testimony, Memory, Legacy (15 credits)
- Social Media, Protest and Political Campaigning (15 credits)
Teaching methods - what to expect
We will develop your skills and knowledge through lectures, seminars, optional workshops and tutorials.
Typically, one credit equates to ten hours of work.
Full-time
| Year | Lectures, seminars and feedback | Self-study |
| 1 | 4-5 hours per week |
36 hours per week |
Part-time
| Year | Lectures, seminars and feedback | Self-study |
| 1 | 2 hours per week | 18 hours per week |
| 2 | 2-3 hours per week | 18 hours per week |
Assessment
- Coursework
- Written/practical examinations
Your performance will be assessed through a combination of coursework and written/practical examinations.
Application closing date guidance
Key Information
Course type:
Master's
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time / Part time
Duration:
One year full-time, September to September, two years part-time
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2026