Drama and Film

Drama and film are disciplines that share a concern with storytelling, performance, and the creation of meaning through time-based art forms. Drama explores theatre in its historical and contemporary dimensions, from classical texts and theatrical traditions to devised, community, and experimental performance. Film studies examines cinema as an art form, a cultural product, and a commercial industry, asking how films are made, how they generate meaning, and how they reflect and shape the societies that produce and consume them.

Studying both disciplines together deepens your understanding of each, as the two art forms have influenced each other profoundly throughout the history of the moving image.

At the University of Kent, this part-time degree is taught by academics with strong research profiles and industry connections that inform the teaching and open professional opportunities for students. You will engage with both practical skills and critical thinking, developing your understanding of drama and film from historical, theoretical, and practice-based perspectives. The programme allows you to explore your own creative style and pursue your passions in the visual and performing arts while also developing the analytical and communicative capacities that make a degree in these subjects genuinely versatile.

Studying part-time gives you the flexibility to develop your creative education alongside other commitments, which many students in the arts find well suited to the way creative development actually happens.

Kent's location in the south-east and its connections to London's arts and media industries provide a strong context for studying drama and film.

Graduates go on to careers in theatre making, film production, broadcasting, acting, directing, arts administration, education, journalism, and the creative industries. Many continue to postgraduate study in drama, film, or creative writing, and some go on to research careers in theatre and film studies.