Performance
Entry requirements
A level
Entry to Year 2 with Grades BBB
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
including 3 subjects at Higher Level
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
Scottish Advanced Higher
For entry to Year 2.
Scottish HNC
Entry to Year 2 with a HNC in the following subjects: Acting & Performance; Musical Theatre; Theatre Arts; Dance; Performance
Scottish HND
Entry to Year 3 with a HND in one of the following titles with B in the Graded Unit: Acting & Performance; Musical Theatre; Theatre Arts; Dance; Performance with B in Graded Unit
Scottish Higher
T Level
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About this course
**OVERVIEW**
UWS’s BA Performance offers you a combination of practical and theoretical study or performance.
This degree will provide you with the opportunities to work across multiple disciplines so that you can learn and create independently and collaboratively. It aimed at emerging performers, performance makers and those interested in developing their practical skills, researching their discipline and thinking critically about performance and culture. Upon completion you become a creative, critical thinker who’ll make a positive impact in the workplace.
To help you explore performance critically and practically, teaching on this degree focuses on the practical, historical, theoretical applications of performance. In addition, masterclasses led by leading industry staff and professionals will enhance your learning and provide insights into contemporary performance industries.
We recognise the important role that having practical experience under your belt has on securing a graduate career, which is why this degree strives to offer real-world professional settings to help you hone your practice.
**PRACTICAL FOCUS**
Our focus on practice, history, theory and industry allows you to explore performance critically and practically and gain a deeper understanding of diverse creative and research practices. You will be encouraged to develop your existing skills and passions whilst engaging with a series of new skills. Master classes and workshops led by leading industry professionals and contemporary performance scholars will support your learning and make you confident about future employment. Practice is developed in our state-of-the-art performance and television studios.
Professional skills are developed throughout the course through a number of modules. You will also be introduced to relevant professionals, protocols and employers.
You are encouraged to become a 'reflective practitioner' and tio be able to demonstrate awareness and relevancy of choices leading you to deploy a range of professional creative skills to realise a contemporary practice specialism. You will also undertake modules which aim to develop critical thinking regarding career choice and ethics. You will be encouraged to use a number of processes to help you focus on your career including: show reels, exhibitions, installations, audio recordings etc. This will help you focus on your performance attributes but enable you to consider career routes and opportunities and enahnce your presentation, communication and generic cognitive skills as you move towards employment in the cultural sector.
**CAREER PROSPECTS**
**Jobs**
With this qualification, you could find yourself acting, directing, producing or writing for stage and screen. Or you could be designing and delivering community theatre projects or even forming your own theatre company.
You may also go on to become a primary school or secondary school drama teacher by undertaking a 12-month Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) - note additional requirements regarding English and Mathematics qualifications will apply for PGDE study.
Modules
In Year 1, you will study a selection of core and optional modules to provide a solid foundation of performance as a discipline. Modules such as Performance Histories, Performance Contexts - Production Aesthetics adn Reading Performance can be augmented with optional modules such as Creative Writing, and Collaboration & Practice.
In Year 2, you will build on your understading of performance and study from modules including: Theory & Performance, Culture & Society, Crossmedia Collaboration, Performance Contexts - Creative Processes.
In Year 3, you will start to explore the role of research in performance. You will study modules such as: Research in Creative Practice, Writing for Stage and Screen, Contemporary Arts in Context, Practice: Creative Festival, and Performance Contetexts - Testing Ideas.
In the final year of study, you will undertake perofrmace core modules with major emphasis on your individual research project. Modues include: Creative Arts Research Project, Practice in Context, Creative Industries - Entrepreneurship & Professional Practice and Performance Realisation.
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