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Arts University Bournemouth

UCAS Code: W410 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

Entry requirements

A level

B,B,B

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

DMM

Scottish Higher

C,C,C,C,C,D

Scottish Highers – five passes at Grade C or above

T Level

M

UCAS Tariff

104-120

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About this course

Course option

3years

Full-time | 2025

Subject

Acting

This course is designed for students who have a passion for performance; we will show you what it takes to turn natural talent into a sustainable career and we will support you to help make your ambitions become reality. You'll get professional training to improve your acting skills and learn how to create performances for different audiences and contexts. You'll work with other students on projects and films and your independent voice as an emerging artist will be developed and nurtured as you progress through the course. BA (Hons) Acting will provide you with the skills needed for creating performances in today's multimedia world.

**What you will study**
With a highly practical, portfolio approach to developing your creative practice, the course delivers training in a range of established techniques in relation to text, character and performance, alongside the core disciplines of movement, voice and singing. Three main themes of training run through each level: a methodological approach to actor training, media training and the concept of the actor as creator and maker of new performance work. This comprehensive approach reflects the demands and diversity of the 21st century creative industries.
Contextual and critical studies across each level will deepen your knowledge and understanding of key contexts within the performance industry and underpin your learning. The course also develops transferable skills in collaboration, teamwork and problem solving.
Sitting within the Bournemouth Film School, the Acting course is well situated for cross-course collaborations and this is a key feature of the programme. Within the course, we have an established collaboration for our fully staged Level 6 shows as part of AUB Productions with Costume, Design for Costume & Performance and Make-up for Media & Performance. Through the course, students will also have the opportunity to collaborate with Film, Animation, Games Design, and Creative Writing.

Professional development and employability skills are integrated through all three levels of the course, helping you to prepare for a career in the creative industries and/or postgraduate study. These skills will enable you to aspire to professional standards within live performance and digital media contexts, as well as empower you to explore diverse career paths.

**By the end of the course you will be able to...**
- Demonstrate a range of physical and vocal skills, with a developed understanding of the inter-relationship between the performer’s voice and body.

- Engage with dramatic texts and other text and non-text sources in order to produce psychologically, emotionally and physically truthful characters.

- Create work in and for specific audiences with an understanding of creative making practices that are solo, collaborative and collective in focus.

- Understand a variety of working methodologies and performance vocabularies in order to present work within different contexts and spaces.

- Appreciate what it means to be a critical actor, as one who is informed, knowledgeable, and reflectively engaged in their discipline.

- Form your own theatre company and operate as a freelance practitioner, with knowledge of producing, budgeting and touring.

- Work with a developed knowledge and practical experience of filmed and audio based performance.

- Promote yourself through a digital portfolio of work, with a clear understanding of your personal brand and career goals and an identification of post-graduate study options.

- Understand what it means to be a reflective practitioner and how to evaluate your development as an emerging artist.

- Work effectively and professionally, independently and collaboratively within different contexts, on solo and group projects and as a cast and crew member as part of an ensemble in the process of creating a full scale, public-facing production.

Assessment methods

Coursework and practical assessments

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

Channel Islands
£9,250
per year
England
£9,250
per year
EU
£19,950
per year
International
£19,950
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,250
per year
Republic of Ireland
£9,250
per year
Scotland
£9,250
per year
Wales
£9,250
per year

The Uni

Course location:

Main Site - Arts University Bournemouth

Department:

Bournemouth Film School

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What students say

We've crunched the numbers to see if the overall teaching satisfaction score here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

93%
Acting

How do students rate their degree experience?

The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Drama

Teaching and learning

83%
Staff make the subject interesting
86%
Staff are good at explaining things
82%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
87%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

71%
Library resources
88%
IT resources
83%
Course specific equipment and facilities
50%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

82%
UK students
18%
International students
37%
Male students
63%
Female students
95%
2:1 or above
17%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

B
B
C

After graduation

The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Drama

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£24,000
high
Average annual salary
89%
med
Employed or in further education
41%
low
Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial

Top job areas of graduates

50%
Design occupations
23%
Artistic, literary and media occupations
5%
Sales assistants and retail cashiers

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Drama

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

£17k

£17k

£20k

£20k

£23k

£23k

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