Acting, Performance and English Language BA (Hons) - Clearing

Love the English language? If you’re also keen to investigate and understand how performance works (and you enjoy the thrill of live stage performance), this course is for you. During your Acting, Performance and English Language BA(Hons), you’ll get involved in staff and student-led performances. We encourage this hands-on approach to help you develop your creativity and prepare you for a post-university role. On the English language side, we’ll cover a broad range of topics in English language and linguistics, with the aim of furthering your understanding and helping you gain useful and transferable skills. We’ll look at literary and linguistic approaches to texts and interaction to help you build up your analytical and interpretive abilities.

We’re ranked 27th in the world for 'Performing Arts' (QS World University Subject Rankings 2023) and this course is taught by industry professionals who will support you throughout your studies. This is a production-based programme, with visits from practitioners and residencies from internationally known companies like Slung Low, IOU Productions and Northern Broadsides. Students have also benefited from past guest appearances from the likes of Professor Sir Patrick Stewart, Natalie Gavin, John Britton, Nicolás Núñez, Chloe Beale, Nicci Topping, Anna Helena McLean, and David Crowley. You’ll have the chance to secure a placement, too, focusing on Language in the Workplace, giving you chance to apply the skills you’ve gained to the working environment. If you’re keen to pursue a career in contemporary performance, theatre technology, English language, stage production, teaching drama workshops, or more, this course will help you develop skills that will complement these areas and more.

At Huddersfield, you’ll study the Global Professional Award alongside your degree† so that you can gain valuable qualities and experiences that could help you to get the career you want, no matter what your field of study is. †full-time, undergraduate first degrees with a minimum duration of three years. This does not include postgraduate, foundation, top-up, accelerated or apprenticeship degrees.

Huddersfield’s vibrant and friendly campus is a great place from which to study, while the town itself offers lots to see and do, with good transport links in and around the area.