Information
Awards
Target Award
Award Description: Master of Arts (Honours)
Alternative Exit
Award Description: Postgraduate Certificate of Arts in Acting
Award Learning Outcomes:
Assemble cultural, critical, and theoretical performance perspectives Explore creative and critical interactions within performance Arrange critical and creative applications of performance techniques Apply key practitioners, practices, and theories Propose creative uses for independent research as part of the process of creating new performance Apply technical fundamentals in performance Demonstrate performance possibilities in response to text and media Recognise collective creative processes Demonstrate performance process skills Select vocabularies and techniques appropriate to professional working methods in performance creation/production Define text annotation, analysis, and investigation skills to interpret and create professional performance Investigate the components of performance considering interdisciplinary vocal, physical, and imaginative functions Analyse and interpret performances and performed events Analyse cultural perspectives in performance Interpret cultural concepts in performance events and its reception Recognise self-management processes and demonstrate the ability to set goals, manage workloads, work under pressure, and meet deadlines Recognise the professional skills needed to plan, realise, and complete collaborative project-based work Demonstrate skills required to accomplish collaborative practice-based work Depict the ability to manage professional and personal workloads, meet targets and deadlines, negotiate, and communicate with others Demonstrate an ability to manage creative, personal, and interpersonal issuesAlternative Exit
Award Description: Postgraduate Diploma of Arts in Acting
Award Learning Outcomes:
Incorporate cultural, critical, and theoretical performance perspectives Analyse creative and critical interactions within performance Arrange critical and creative applications of performance techniques, evaluating traditions, histories, forms, and practices Apply key practitioners, practices, theories and their cultural and/or historical contexts Propose creative and critical uses for independent research as part of the process of creating new performance Apply interdisciplinary technical fundamentals in performance Formulate performance possibilities in response to text and media Exhibit collective creative processes Synthesise performance process skills Associate performance vocabularies and techniques appropriate to professional working methods in performance creation/production Demonstrate text annotation, analysis, and investigation skills to interpret and create professional performance Analyse the fundamental components of performance considering interdisciplinary vocal, physical, and imaginative functions Critically analyse and interpret performances and performed events Critically analyse cultural and critical perspectives in performance Critically interpret cultural concepts in performance events and its reception Analyse self-management processes and demonstrate the ability to set goals, manage workloads, work under pressure, and meet deadlines Indicate the professional skills needed to plan, realise, and complete collaborative project-based work Demonstrate skills required to work creatively and imaginatively in the accomplishment of collaborative practice-based work Depict the ability to manage professional and personal workloads efficiently and effectively, meet targets and deadlines, negotiate, and communicate with others Demonstrate an ability to manage creative, personal, and interpersonal issues constructively and effectively
Programme Offerings
Details: Full Time
Intake: September
Duration: 1 Years
Educational Aims Of Course
The programme intends to contribute to the postgraduate education of actors, and its associated disciplines, through intensive, robust and research-driven 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 across performance platforms and contexts
ii. Develop in students an independent and unique autonomy in technical and practical processes
iii. Utilise student engagement through employment initiatives within the creative industries, including self-employment and entrepreneurial frameworks
iv. Advance in students an appreciation and understanding of cultural, social, political and economic perspectives in performance
Learning Outcomes
- 1) Synthesise cultural, critical, and theoretical performance perspectives
- 2) Appraise creative and critical interactions within performance
- 3) Synthesise perceptive critical and creative applications of performance techniques, evaluating traditions, histories, forms, and practices
- 4) Enterprise use of key practitioners, practices, theories and their cultural and/or historical contexts
- 5) Intelligently hypothesise creative and critical uses for independent research as part of the process of creating new performance
- 6) Assimilate the interdisciplinary technical fundamentals for application in performance
- 7) Devise original performance possibilities in response to text and media
- 8) Exhibit professional collective creative processes
- 9) Synthesise refined performance process skills appropriate to production requirements
- 10) Incorporate critical performance vocabularies and techniques appropriate to professional working methods in performance creation/production
- 11) Synthesise text annotation, analysis, and investigation skills to interpret and create professional performance
- 12) Evaluate the fundamental components of performance constructing inventive interdisciplinary vocal, physical, and imaginative functions
- 13) Critically analyse, evaluate, and interpret performances and performed events
- 14) Critically analyse intersectional cultural and critical perspectives in performance
- 15) Critically evaluate and interpret cultural concepts in performance events and its reception
- 16) Evaluate self-management processes and demonstrate the ability to set goals, manage workloads, work under pressure, and meet deadlines
- 17) Demonstrate the professional skills needed to plan, realise, and complete collaborative project-based work
- 18) Synthesise the developed skills required to work creatively and imaginatively in the accomplishment of collaborative practice-based work
- 19) Manifest the ability to manage professional and personal workloads efficiently and effectively, meet targets and deadlines, negotiate, and communicate with others
- 20) Synthesise a professional aptitude to manage creative, personal, and interpersonal issues constructively and effectively
Teaching, Learning and Assessments
The course is delivered across a 30-week academic year, at an average of 30+ hours per week. The target award, and additional levels of alternative achievement, postgraduate certificate, and postgraduate diploma, are considered within the alignment of Blooms Taxonomy, to capture analysis and application, synthesis and evaluation, as well as additional Level 7 expectations. 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 7
Core - Acting FT Sept Intake MA
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The Actor's Practice: Acting Technique I - 7601ACT
Credits: 30 Year: 1 -
The Actor's Practice: Acting Technique II - 7602ACT
Credits: 30 Year: 1 -
The Actor's Practice: Professional Performance I - 7603ACT
Credits: 30 Year: 1 -
The Actor's Practice: Professional Performance II - 7604ACT
Credits: 30 Year: 1 -
The Actor's Practice: Professional Performance III - 7605ACT
Credits: 60 Year: 1
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Entry Requirements
Alternative qualifications considered
Undergraduate Degree in a cognate area, normally at 2:1 or above or equivalent professional practice. This programme seeks to admit students who have an established level of professional practice either through employment or through recognised or appropriate training at undergraduate level. Entry will be by interview (with portfolio as appropriate) or audition The emphasis on interview and audition allows for individual assessment. The course places emphasis on individual methodologies for critical analysis and design of research and as such supports a diverse range of applicants. Costume Making Target 15 (max) 5 (min) All classes are conducted in English. The level of proficiency in English expected is IELTS 6.5.
HECoS Code(s)
- 100067 - acting