The BA (Hons) Performance Industries is a top-up course designed for those
who have an interest in the Performance Arts and who already hold a Foundation
Degree, a Higher National Diploma or an equivalent higher-level qualification in
a related subject.
The course aims to build on students’ skills, knowledge, and experience of
their performance specialism (Acting, Musical Theatre, Popular Music, or Dance)
in order to prepare them for employment within the performance based strand of
the wider Creative Industries.
It combines work-based learning with academic study and aims to develop
students’ existing skills and knowledge of the standards and expectations of the
industry. It also aims to enhance students’ general and creative skills.
Learning will be enhanced by links with the Theatre Royal Wakefield, working
professionals, a range of educational and industrial visits, and subject
specialist performance-based workshops. Students will also be given the
opportunity to enhance their skills via a range of subject specialism
performances throughout the year. The programme is designed to focus on the
individual.
Distinctive Features:
- Professional development and employability is at the heart of the
programme in both its design and delivery
- Enhanced learning through subject specialist performance-based workshops
and performances that are delivered by subject specialist tutors, professional
performers and industry-based practitioners
- The Industry Experience module allows students to undertake a work
placement in a relevant area of the Performance Industries, to establish
direct links with industry personnel, and to gain an understanding of an
organisation’s working practices
- The development of responsibility, autonomy and self-motivation in the
development of an industry based personalised career portfolio
- Strong focus on the active learner and the embedding of the envelopment
and practice of this still in order to aid the transition from “student” of
the Performance Industries to “practitioner”.
You'll learn through practical workshops, interactive lectures,
resource-based learning, individual and group work, tutorials, discussion,
critiques and rehearsals. Other teaching methods include formal lectures,
seminars, tutorials, residentials, visiting companies and attendance at
performances. Individual or group projects will culminate in public and
non-public performance and you’ll have the opportunity to reflect critically on
your own performance and that of others.
