Information
Awards
Target Award
Award Description: Certificate of Higher Education
Programme Offerings
Details: Full Time
Intake: September
Duration: 1 Years
Educational Aims Of Course
The programme provides a foundational training for musical theatre actors aspirant to undertake a Conservatoire-level degree course in preparation for advanced drama school degree-level training in the interdisciplinary assimilation of acting, singing and dance. Our programme aims to:
i. Develop the student's understanding and realisation of performance traditions, performing arts perspectives and texts via practical approaches
ii. Develop the student's ability to assimilate research and employ musical theatre acting vocabularies, considering apposite communication and presentational skills
iii. Develop the student's collaborative and interdisciplinary skills, integrating acting, dance and singing
iv. Develop the student's professional preparation, organisational and independent research skills
Learning Outcomes
- 1) Understand musical theatre performance perspectives
- 2) Summarise creative viewpoints in musical theatre performance
- 3) Demonstrate a selection of musical theatre performance approaches
- 4) Understand practical musical theatre approaches and their historical contexts
- 5) Use independent research to create new musical theatre performances
- 6) Demonstrate integrated acting, vocal and physical approaches in musical theatre performance
- 7) Recognise creative performance possibilities in response to musical theatre text, score and dance
- 8) Demonstrate collective creative processes
- 9) Recognise performance process skills
- 10) Identify musical theatre performance vocabularies and approaches
- 11) Understand text, score annotation and investigation skills to create musical theatre performances
- 12) Identify interactions across voice/singing, dance/movement and environment/imaginative world
- 13) Interpret musical theatre performances
- 14) Recognise musical theatre performance perspectives
- 15) Identify concepts in musical theatre performance and its reception
- 16) Understand personal skills to manage workloads and work under pressure
- 17) Recognise the skills needed to plan collaborative project-based work
- 18) Recognise the creative and imaginative skills required to realise practice-based work
- 19) Describe self-management skills to meet targets and deadlines
- 20) Define the skills to manage personal and interpersonal issues in creative contexts
Teaching, Learning and Assessments
The course is delivered across a 30-week academic year, at an average of 30 hours per week. The course sits within a framework (Bloom) to capture knowledge and comprehension at Level 4, evidenced in practical realisation. This is implicit within the writing of level and module outcomes, constructively aligned (Biggs) 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 this framework 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
Programme Structure
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Level 4
Core - Foundation Cert Acting (musical theatre)
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The Actor's Foundation: Musical Theatre Fundamentals I - 4601FAMT
Credits: 30 Year: 1 -
The Actor's Foundation: Musical Theatre Fundamentals II - 4602FAMT
Credits: 30 Year: 1 -
The Actor's Foundation: Musical Theatre Fundamentals III - 4603FAMT
Credits: 30 Year: 1 -
Personal Practice - 4604FAMT
Credits: 30 Year: 1
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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