Digital Media & Information Studies/Theatre Studies

Digital media and information studies and theatre studies together examine two of the most powerful ways human beings communicate, create, and make meaning. Digital media studies brings a critical, humanistic perspective to the digital age, exploring how digital content and information are created, used, and understood in the arts, humanities, and society. Theatre studies investigates performance as a cultural and artistic practice, asking how plays, productions, and live events make meaning, engage audiences, and participate in the social and political life of their moment.

At the University of Glasgow this four-year, full-time Joint Honours programme places these two perspectives in productive dialogue. The digital media component develops your analytical and practical engagement with the digital landscape and its implications for culture and communication. The theatre studies component develops your critical understanding of performance, with attention to dramatic texts, stage history, and the theories of theatre that have shaped practice from antiquity to the present.

Glasgow is a city with a rich and diverse theatre scene, providing an outstanding context for the theatre element of the degree. A year abroad is built into the programme, giving you the opportunity to study at a partner university overseas and to encounter different theatrical and digital media cultures.

Graduates of this combination move into careers in theatre, arts organisations, digital media, broadcasting, journalism, education, and the cultural sector. Many work in roles that sit at the intersection of performance and digital media, including digital content for theatre companies, online arts programming, audience development, and the streaming of live performance. Others build careers in stage management, dramaturgy, teaching, arts administration, or the growing range of digital creative industries.

Further study at postgraduate level in theatre studies, digital humanities, performance, or related fields is available for those who want to develop a particular direction in research or professional practice.