Information
Awards
Target Award
Award Description: Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
Alternative Exit
Award Description: Bachelor of Arts Acting (Musicianship)
Award Learning Outcomes:
Demonstrate a broad and comparative knowledge of the general scope of the subject, its different areas and applications, and its interactions with related subjects. A detailed knowledge of a defined subject or a more limited coverage of a specialist area balanced by a wider range of study. In each case, specialised study will be informed by current developments in the subject. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the essential theories, principles and concepts of the subject(s) and of the ways in which these are developed through the main methods of enquiry in the subject.Alternative Exit
Award Description: Certificate of Higher Education Acting (Musicianship)
Award Learning Outcomes:
Identify cultural, critical, and theoretical actor musician performance perspectives. Understand creative and critical exchanges in actor musician performance. Exhibit a creative selection of acting and musicianship techniques, recognising traditions, histories, forms and practices. Implement acting, music and musical theatre practitioner theories, relevant to cultural and/or historical contexts. Portray independent research when creating new performance. Identify interdisciplinary acting, singing and instrumental fundamentals in performance. Make creative performance choices in response to text, musical score and musical arrangement/orchestration. Understand collective creative processes. Present creative engagement with actor musician and instrumental process skills. Identify vocabularies and techniques appropriate to acting and musical performance creation/production. Understand investigation and analytical skills to create actor musicianship performance. Identify the fundamentals of voice/singing, dance/movement, and environment/imaginative world and instrumentation/scoring in performance. Describe and interpret musical and theatre performances. Explain cultural and critical perspectives in musical performance. Identify and interpret cultural concepts in musical works and its reception. Describe and demonstrate self-management skills, the ability to set goals, manage workloads, work under pressure, and meet deadlines. Identify the skills needed to plan collaborative project-based work. Identify the skills required to work creatively in collaborative practice-based work. Understand negotiation and communication skills. Recognise the skills to manage creative, personal, and interpersonal issues.Alternative Exit
Award Description: Diploma of Higher Education Acting (Musicianship)
Award Learning Outcomes:
Analyse cultural, critical and theoretical actor musician performance perspectives. Interpret creative and critical exchanges in actor musician performance. Demonstrate a creative application of acting and musical techniques, analysing traditions, histories, forms and practices. Apply acting and musical practitioner theories and analyse cultural and/or historical contexts. Analyse independent research when creating new performance. Demonstrate interdisciplinary technical acting, singing and instrumental fundamentals in musical theatre performance. Examine inventive performance choices in response to text, musical score, and musical arrangement. Employ intelligent collective creative processes. Demonstrate a creative selection of actor musician and instrumental process skills applicable to production requirements. Demonstrate adaptable performance vocabularies and techniques appropriate to creative working methods in acting and musical creation/production. Understand investigation and analytical skills to create musical and theatrical performance. Apply the fundamentals of voice/singing, dance/movement, instrumentation and environment/imaginative world in actor musician performance. Analyse and interpret musical and theatrical performances. Analyse cultural and critical perspectives in musical and theatrical performance. Critically analyse and interpret cultural concepts in musical and theatrical performance events and its reception. Analyse and demonstrate self-management skills, the ability to set goals, manage workloads, work under pressure and meet deadlines. Apply the skills needed to plan and realise collaborative project-based work. Implement the skills required to work creatively in collaborative practice-based work. Demonstrate negotiation and communication skills. Demonstrate the skills to manage creative, personal, and interpersonal issues.
Programme Offerings
Details: Full Time
Intake: September
Duration: 3 Years
Educational Aims Of Course
The programme intends to contribute to the education of actors as actor musicians, adept in the interdisciplinary assimilation of acting, singing and dance, as well as musical instrumentation, arranging, composition and musical direction skills, 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:
i. Facilitate graduates to obtain employment as versatile actors, singers and dancers, musicians and composers, across performance mediums and contexts
ii. Develop in students an independent and unique autonomy in technical interdisciplinary practical processes
iii. Utilise student engagement through employment initiatives within the performance industries, including self-employment and entrepreneurial frameworks
iv. Advance in students an appreciation and understanding of cultural, social, political and economic perspectives in musical theatre performance.
Learning Outcomes
- 1) Evaluate cultural, critical, and theoretical actor musician performance perspectives
- 2) Evaluate creative and critical exchanges in actor musician performance
- 3) Synthesise a creative application of acting and musicianship theatre techniques, analysing traditions, histories, forms, and practices
- 4) Integrate acting, musical theatre and music practitioner theories, and analyse cultural and/or historical contexts
- 5) Evidence independent critical research when creating new performance
- 6) Synthesise interdisciplinary technical acting, singing and instrumental fundamentals in musical performance
- 7) Demonstrate original performance choices in response to text, musical score, and dance notation
- 8) Exhibit professional collective creative processes
- 9) Synthesise a sophisticated creative selection of musical performance process skills applicable to production requirements
- 10) Incorporate vocabularies and techniques appropriate to professional standards in musical performance creation/production
- 11) Integrate and analyse text, score annotation and musical direction to interpret and create professional performance
- 12) Evaluate the fundamental interdisciplinary components of actor musician performance
- 13) Critique, evaluate and interpret musical and theatrical performances
- 14) Formulate intersectional cultural and critical perspectives in musical performance
- 15) Critically evaluate and interpret cultural concepts in musical performance and its reception
- 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 (Musicianship)
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The Actor's Preparation: Acting and Musicianship Principles I - 4601AMS
Credits: 30 Year: 1 -
The Actor's Preparation: Acting and Musicianship Principles II - 4602AMS
Credits: 30 Year: 1 -
The Actor's Preparation: Acting and Musicianship Principles III - 4603AMS
Credits: 30 Year: 1 -
Artistic Practice I - 4604ACT
Credits: 30 Year: 1
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Level 5
Core - Acting (Musicianship)
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The Actor's Process: Musicianship Project I - 5601AMS
Credits: 30 Year: 2 -
The Actor's Process: Musicianship Project II - 5602AMS
Credits: 30 Year: 2 -
The Actor's Process: Musicianship Project II - 5603AMS
Credits: 30 Year: 2 -
Artistic Practice II - 5604ACT
Credits: 30 Year: 2
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Level 6
Core - Acting (Musicianship)
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The Actor's Performance: Professional Musicianship Production I - 6601AMS
Credits: 30 Year: 3 -
The Actor's Performance: Professional Musicianship Production II - 6602AMS
Credits: 30 Year: 3 -
The Actor's Performance: Professional Musicianship Production III - 6603AMS
Credits: 30 Year: 3 -
Artistic Practice III - 6604ACT
Credits: 30 Year: 3
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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 through applications and interview or audition key attributes and achievements. 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 on the basis of 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 in to 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 Discipline 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
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