**Explore your creative identity with our Drama degree.**- Pursue your passions. Choose to specialise, broaden your skills-base or combine Drama with another subject you love.- Experiment, reflect and innovate. Learn by making, producing, performing, directing and collaborating.- Graduate with a host of skills valued in a range of industries, from theatre to media to education.Studying Drama at Bath Spa gives you the performance, critical and creative skills you need to launch yourself into a variety of exciting careers.You'll explore your creative identity through core and optional modules in areas of practice such as play production, performing, writing and directing, and topics such as Shakespeare, musical theatre, physical theatre, applied theatre and media and performance.Among many of the options open to you will be acting, directing, education, theatre production, arts administration, or arts therapies; you could also choose to progress to further study, for example in as Directing, Creative Producing, Creative Writing and Scriptwriting.**More about the Professional Placement Year**A Professional Placement Year (PPY), traditionally known as a sandwich year, is where you undertake a period of work with an external organisation for between 9-13 months. The placement occurs between your second and final years of undergraduate study. You can engage in up to 3 placements to make up the total time and are required to source the placement(s) yourself, with support from the Careers team.

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