Acting for Stage and Screen
University of Staffordshire
UCAS Code: W431 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
University of Staffordshire
UCAS Code: W431 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Other A Level combinations are possible to achieve 112 points
Pass Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 80 UCAS points.
OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Achieve a minimum of 112 tariff points achieved from either five Highers or a combination of two Highers offered with two Advanced Highers. Where only Highers have been taken a minimum of (CCCCC) is required.
T Level
Pass (C and above)
Eligible T Level applications will be asked to achieve a minimum overall grade of P (A*-C) or Higher Pass as a condition of offer.
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About this course
This highly practical degree introduces you to acting and drama techniques via practical workshops. Your theoretical knowledge will also grow out of your experience in the studio. Assessments are built around performance and filmed work too as well as practice as research. You’ll also work with students in animation and film on various digital media projects.
The aim of our Acting for Stage and Screen degree is to create skilled creative practitioners with an ability to work across all performance mediums, balancing acting for TV, film and digital media alongside theatre.
While the focus is on theatre-making, the transferable skills you develop can prepare you for a range of careers. It could include postgraduate study to become a teacher, as well as work in the wider performing arts and creative industries.
Acting, drama and theatre-making workshops form the basis of your course, with further classes developing your critical, contextual and evaluative skills.
Our team of lecturers is made up of experienced actors, directors and practitioners. We have links with many local, regional and national media, theatre and arts organisations. And you will be encouraged to take up industry work experience as part of your degree.
Each year, we offer final-year students the chance to take part in an optional showcase. This event attracts industry guests, including casting directors and agents.
On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: BA (Hons) Acting for Stage and Screen
Modules
Year 1 Core: Performance Skills 1: Body, Voice and Imagination; Principles and Practices; Storytelling, Directing and Dramaturgy
Year 2 Core: Performance Skills 2: Live and Digital; Public Performance; Shakespeare: Text in Performance across the Globe. Year 2 Optional: Applied and Teaching Drama; Directing for Live and Recorded Media
Year 3 Core: Collaborative Creative Project; Future Self: Professional Work Experience; Independent Project; Major Production
Assessment methods
The team operates within a framework which comprises four elements:
The opportunity to receive verbal feedback from tutors during continual assessment and after assessed performances (both live and recorded) and presentations.
The opportunity to receive verbal feedback from tutors when work is collected.
Provision of commentary comprising of a) annotated engagement with the student’s text; and/or b) written summary of overall strengths and weaknesses.
The return of marked written work and feedback to students within a maximum of 20 working days of submission.
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University of Staffordshire (Stoke Campus)
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