Theatre provides students with a systematic and comprehensive understanding of the academic study of theatre and performance in both its historical and contemporary contexts and to prepare students for work in the industry or for further research by developing the skills of leadership, self and group management, initiative, personal responsibility, interpersonal skills, decision-making and independent learning; the English course develops the student�s ability to read texts in increasingly complex and diverse ways; students explore literature by looking at its structures and forms as well as the varying contexts in which it is produced and read.