Drama: Education & Community
York St John University
UCAS Code: W4T6 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
York St John University
UCAS Code: W4T6 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
GCSE/National 4/National 5
3 GCSEs at grade C/4 (or equivalent) including English Language.
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About this course
Use your passion for performance to transform the lives of people in our communities.
Community really matters to us. On this course you will have a unique opportunity to engage in applied drama and theatre through placements and collaboration with our partners. You will develop an understanding of theatre while exploring how it can be applied across community and educational settings to make a real difference.
In this practical and creative course, you will experience how drama and performance can help marginalised groups. You will work on placements in local community settings, facilitating others to create work. Working alongside specialists including drama teachers and youth theatre practitioners you will learn how to plan, develop and deliver your theatre practice.
You will benefit from our long-standing relationships with organisations across York and the wider region. We work with diverse groups of all ages in settings such as schools, prisons and care homes.
Some of the partnerships we have across the region include:
York Theatre Royal Youth Theatre – you will have the opportunity to work on weekly youth theatre workshops and performances.
Connaught Course Care Home – our students regularly visit care homes that provide support to older people with dementia and make reminiscence theatre for the residents.
Changing Lives – this charity provides accommodation and support to homeless men and women in York. Your work here might include working with these groups and offering drama workshops.
Mind the Gap – this is one of Europe’s leading disability theatre company specialising in working alongside artists with learning disabilities. You could work alongside these artists to deliver exciting theatre performances.
Through collaborating in settings such as these you will learn how to design and facilitate workshops and performances suited to people with a wide range of needs and abilities. You will become an expert in how drama can be made accessible and impactful for all.
Modules
Modules may include:
Year 1:
Acting
Making Ensemble Performance
Big Ideas in Performance
Ensemble: Political Performance
Workshop Facilitation
Movement for Performance
Spoken Word Performance
Theatre for Social Change
Year 2:
Political Engaged Practice 1
Political Engaged Practice 2
Children and Young People
Performance in Social Context
Acting for Screen: The Performer as Auteur
Artist as Witness
Auto / biography and Performance
Physical Theatre
Politics and the Play
Re-Performing Dance Archives
Site Specific Dance
Writing After Beckett
Acting Vignettes
Year 3:
Dissertation
Company: Research and Development
Company: Commission and Actualisation
Independent Project: Education and Community
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