The Drama component offers students the opportunity to explore their critical understanding of the subject in a manner that complements their work in the Educational Studies component with which it is combined; it is a selection of modules with some elective choices designed to allow those with an interest in Drama a means for developing critical understanding of the world but without the level of focus on performance skills; Education is studied as a social science and students develop vocationally-valued transferable skills through the intellectually rigorous study of educational processes, systems and approaches, and the cultural, societal, political and historical contexts within which they are embedded.