Drama and Theatre Arts with Acting
Goldsmiths, University of London
UCAS Code: W410 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Your qualifications must include a minimum Grade B in English Literature, English Language and Literature, Drama or Theatre Studies, or another humanities discipline. General Studies is not accepted as one of the three A-levels.
Access to HE Diploma
Pass with 45 Level 3 credits including 30 Distinctions and a number of merits/passes in subject-specific modules
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
With three HL subjects at 655 including English Literature, English Language and Literature, Drama or Theatre Studies, or another humanities discipline.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Scottish Advanced Higher
Including B in English Literature, English Language and Literature, Drama or Theatre Studies, or another humanities discipline.
Scottish Higher
Including a B in English Literature, English Language and Literature, Drama or Theatre Studies, or another humanities discipline.
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Train as an actor and artist in your own right. Experience and enjoy a wide range of roles alongside opportunities to direct, write and produce.
**Why study BA Drama and Theatre Arts with Acting at Goldsmiths**
- You'll learn to become an ‘actor-plus’: developing confidence as an actor while being given access to other skills such as directing, writing and producing.
- Studying with us will enable you to work in the theatre and screen industries and equip you to create, innovate, and initiate change, in your own right as an artist.
- Goldsmiths is famous for producing theatre practitioners who have agency and critical capacity.
- Your learning experience will benefit from recent developments and diversification in the models and methods of actor training and ethics that we have been exploring on BA Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, and now with an expanded practice in Acting skills.
- There will be classes in rehearsal ethics, characterisation and ensemble skills, movement, voice, stage, screen and audio genres, text-based and devised work.
- Our training assists you in achieving excellence and avoids erasing aspects of your identity in the process of training such as race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, regional accent or disability.
Modules
Year 1
Critical Dialogues A
Character, Modes and Forms I
Introduction to Dramaturgy
Character, Modes and Forms II
Theatre Making 1
The Ensemble
Reflexive Practitioner I: Self-pedagogy
Year 2
Classical Acting in a Contemporary World
Questions of Performance
Global Theatre Histories
Theatre Making 2
Screen and Audio Acting
Reflexive Practitioner II: Embodied Expression
Year 3
Performing Cultures A
Production in Process
Theatre Making 3 Laboratory
Theatre Making 3 Projects
Directed Production
Reflexive Practitioner III: Industry Preparation
*Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.
Assessment methods
You will be assessed by a range of methods. These may include coursework assignments such as essays, portfolios, research statements and exams, as well as practical assignments such as practice-based presentations and oral presentations.
The Uni
Goldsmiths, University of London
Theatre and Performance
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