Information
Awards
Target Award
Award Description: Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
Programme Offerings
Details: Full Time
Intake: September
Duration: 3 Years
Educational Aims Of Course
The programme intends to contribute to the education of actors, and its associated disciplines, through effective, coherent, and innovative training that equips graduates as artistic creatives who, in addition to traditional practical skills, develop an ability to utilise practitioner techniques and theoretical insights to critically analyse performance material whilst developing a unique independent methodology and business acumen to maximise the utilities of their skillset. Our programme aims to:
- Facilitate graduates to obtain employment as versatile actors across contemporary performance platforms and contexts.
- Develop in students an independent and unique autonomy in technical multidisciplinary practical processes.
- Utilise student engagement through employment initiatives within the creative industries, including self-employment and entrepreneurial frameworks.
- Advance in students an appreciation and understanding of cultural, social, political, and economic perspectives in contemporary performance.
Learning Outcomes
- 1) Evaluate cultural, critical, and theoretical contemporary performance perspectives
- 2) Evaluate creative and critical exchanges in contemporary performance
- 3) Synthesise a creative application of performance techniques, analysing traditions, histories, forms, and practices
- 4) Integrate contemporary performance practitioner theories and analyse cultural and/or historical contexts
- 5) Evidence independent critical research when creating new performance
- 6) Synthesise interdisciplinary technical fundamentals in contemporary performance
- 7) Demonstrate original performance choices in response to source material
- 8) Exhibit professional collective creative processes
- 9) Synthesise a sophisticated creative selection of performance process skills applicable to production requirements
- 10) Incorporate vocabularies and techniques appropriate to professional standards in contemporary performance creation/production
- 11) Integrate and analyse source material to interpret and create professi
- 12) Evaluate the fundamental interdisciplinary components of conceptual contemporary performance
- 13) Critique, evaluate and interpret experimental, contemporary, and conceptual performances
- 14) Formulate intersectional cultural and critical perspectives in non-traditional contemporary performance
- 15) Critically evaluate and interpret cultural concepts in non-traditional contemporary
- 16) Evaluate and demonstrate self-management skills, the ability to set goals, manage workloads, work under pressure, and meet deadlines
- 17) Integrate the professional skills needed to plan, realise, and complete collaborative project-based work
- 18) Synthesise the skills required to work creatively in collaborative practice-based work
- 19) Demonstrate professional negotiation and communication skills
- 20) Demonstrate the professional skills to manage creative, personal, and interpersonal issues
Teaching, Learning and Assessments
The course is delivered across a 30-week academic year, at an average of 30+ hours per week. At its progressive levels of study, the course addresses and aligns with hierarchical frameworks, such as Blooms Taxonomy, to capture knowledge and comprehension, application and analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. This is implicit within the writing of level and module outcomes, as well as the constructive alignment (Biggs) of learning outcomes for delivery and assessment.
Formative feedback is continuous and ongoing. Summative assessment is structured to allow for developmental learning, and skills and knowledge advancement. Learning outcomes have been crafted within these frameworks to allow for the development of specialist subject-specific discipline skills, knowledge and ideas, intellectual and analytical skills, transferable and professional graduate skills.
Opportunities for work related learning
Some modules may be assessed in professional work-based scenarios.
Programme Structure
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Level 4
Core - Acting (Contemporary Performance)
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The Actor's Preparation: Contemporary Performance Principles I - 4601ACP
Credits: 30 Year: 1 -
The Actor's Preparation: Contemporary Performance Principles II - 4602ACP
Credits: 30 Year: 1 -
The Actor's Preparation: Acting Principles III - 4603ACP
Credits: 30 Year: 1 -
Artistic Practice I - 4604ACT
Credits: 30 Year: 1
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Level 5
Core - Acting (Contemporary Performance)
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Artistic Practice II - 5604ACT
Credits: 30 Year: 2
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Entry Requirements
A Levels
We are committed to accepting students on to this course who have the potential to succeed as performers and who will gain sustained work in the performing arts and entertainment industries. With this in mind, we wish to identify key attributes and achievements through applications and interview or audition. The key attributes that we seek to identify are:
Knowledge, ability, and experience of acting
Commitment to the performing arts
Ability to work effectively with others
Broad interest and engagement
Self-awareness
Spirit of enterprise
The minimum educational standard that we are looking for is:
GCSEs
We normally require a minimum of five GCSEs grade C. These should include Maths and English. Plus, a minimum of 64 UCAS tariff points. We accept all types of equivalent qualifications.
The following are the most common UK qualifications that people tend to apply to us with:
A/AS Level
This should be from two A Levels (i.e. grades C, C), excluding General Studies. Points from AS and Key Skills are not counted.
Alternative qualifications considered
Audition or Interview
Candidates are invited to audition/interview based on completing the LIPA and/or UCAS application form. We look for evidence of the key attributes and an ability to achieve the qualifications standard. In exceptional cases people may be invited to audition/interview who have not met or are not on course to meet the qualifications standard. In these cases, there must be substantial potential demonstrated against the other attributes. The audition or interview allows us to evaluate you as a practitioner in your area of interest. Offers of a place will follow where you demonstrate high ability and the potential to succeed. At the audition we provide an overview of LIPA and candidates are asked to present prepared pieces, they also take part in a practical workshop. At a recall event, candidates are asked to bring a piece of written work, take part in workshops and present prepared pieces. They may also be asked interview questions. On occasions, we may combine all elements into a single audition.
Equal Opportunity
LIPA is an equal opportunities organisation and aims to successfully recruit students from a wide range of different socio-economic and personal backgrounds. To ensure we provide effective equality of opportunity within the application process we carefully consider each application individually and acknowledge differences that can exist between applicants experiences from diverse backgrounds. We regularly update our approaches to take into account changing understanding of communities and cultures and we monitor applicant/student characteristics such as age, gender and ethnicity.
Recognition of Prior (Experiential) Learning [RP(E)L] and Credit Transfers
If you can demonstrate that you have already achieved learning equivalent to a module or modules, or a level of study, in the programme then you may be eligible to be awarded credit for this learning or to have credit transferred from another UK institution. You will be required to complete an application to have your qualifications or experience approved by the Head of Department and the university. This requires the presentation of appropriate evidence, and we will map the evidence against the programme outcomes to be certain of equivalence. If approved credit will be awarded and you will proceed on to the appropriate level of the course to complete the remaining credit for the award.
BTECs
Extended Diploma (i.e. Merit, Pass, Pass profile).
BTEC Diploma (i.e. Merit, Merit).
Acceptable on its own and combined with other qualifications such as an A Level, in which case total needs to be 64 UCAS tariff points across both qualifications.
90 Credit Diploma (Distinction, Merit).
Acceptable on its own or can be combined with other qualifications such as an A Level, in which case total needs to be 64 UCAS tariff points.
International Baccalaureate
Acceptable on its own and with other qualifications
Welsh Baccalaureate: Acceptable on its own but is ideally combined with other qualifications as it is equivalent to one A Level.
Other International requirements
We welcome applications from students with qualifications from outside of the UK. Each application is considered on an individual basis and mapped to the appropriate entry level. We value the diversity of experience that students from different backgrounds bring to the course. IELTS Score of 6 is required.
HECoS Code(s)
- 100067 - acting