This course consists of a combination of acting workshops, rehearsals, contextual studies and filmed and live performance, ensuring practice is underpinned with relevant contextual theory. Assessment is through presentations, productions, films, rehearsals and other coursework – there are no formal exams.
This course is also open to applicants who have completed an HND/FdA in a relevant Acting/Drama discipline to progress onto the final year of the BA qualification via our Top-up route.
In your first two years, you’ll be taught fundamental principles of drama, storytelling and acting for all mediums using a range of contemporary and classical texts. In the second year, you can choose between directing for stage and screen, or teaching and applied drama work.
Building on your prior knowledge of key figures like Stanislavsky, you will be introduced to a wide range of different practitioners and genres throughout your three years.
We’ll also teach you the specific techniques required for recorded media such as MoCap, commercial voiceovers, virtual production, animation voiceover work and acting for radio drama. You will also have the opportunity to act in several public staged productions in your second and third years.
Your third year will revolve around your involvement in either a staged or filmed piece of work with an internal or guest director, setting up your own company and putting on your own projects, undertaking work experience, and negotiating a solo project. Examples of projects can include writing a screenplay or one act theatre piece, writing and performing your own monologue, or a dissertation. You will be able to negotiate your learning.
Academic year
The course operates on a modular basis that provides flexibility and choice.
Typically, the majority of modules are 40 academic credits with a smaller number of 20 credit modules.
Each credit taken equates to a total study time of around 10 hours. Total study time includes scheduled teaching, independent study and assessment activity. Full-time students take modules worth 60 credits per semester, with part-time students taking proportionately fewer credits per semester. All students take a total of 120 credits per level and 360 credits for the degree as a whole.
Your overall grade for the course and your degree classification are based on the marks obtained for modules taken at Levels 5 and 6. The full-time course has one start point in September.
This course consists of a combination of acting workshops, rehearsals and filmed and live performance, ensuring practice is underpinned with relevant theory. Assessment is through presentations, productions, films and other coursework– there are no formal exams!
The modules you’ll study in your Top Up year are unique to you. You can tailor your course from a range of numerous options and play to your interests and strengths. This may include acting in a major film project, acting in a classic play or exploring digital performance practice in the University’s state-of-the-art Motion Capture studio. You could choose to write a screenplay or one act theatre piece, write and perform your own monologue or explore dynamic rehearsal techniques as an actor which lead to further public performances.
Our third-year showcase is held each year in Manchester for industry guests, including casting directors and agents. You will also have the opportunity to act in several public staged productions.
Academic year
The course operates on a modular basis that provides flexibility and choice.
Typically, the majority of modules are 40 academic credits with a smaller number of 20 credit modules.
Each credit taken equates to a total study time of around 10 hours. Total study time includes scheduled teaching, independent study and assessment activity. Full-time students take modules worth 60 credits per semester, with part-time students taking proportionately fewer credits per semester. All students take a total of 120 credits per level and 360 credits for the degree as a whole.
Your overall grade for the course and your degree classification are based on the marks obtained for modules taken at Levels 5 and 6. The full-time course has one start point in September.
This course consists of a combination of acting workshops, rehearsals, contextual studies and filmed and live performance, ensuring practice is underpinned with relevant contextual theory. Assessment is through presentations, productions, films, rehearsals and other coursework – there are no formal exams.
This course is also open to applicants who have completed an HND/FdA in a relevant Acting/Drama discipline to progress onto the final year of the BA qualification via our Top-up route.
In your first two years, you’ll be taught fundamental principles of drama, storytelling and acting for all mediums using a range of contemporary and classical texts. In the second year, you can choose between directing for stage and screen, or teaching and applied drama work.
Building on your prior knowledge of key figures like Stanislavsky, you will be introduced to a wide range of different practitioners and genres throughout your three years.
We’ll also teach you the specific techniques required for recorded media such as MoCap, commercial voiceovers, virtual production, animation voiceover work and acting for radio drama. You will also have the opportunity to act in several public staged productions in your second and third years.
Your third year will revolve around your involvement in either a staged or filmed piece of work with an internal or guest director, setting up your own company and putting on your own projects, undertaking work experience, and negotiating a solo project. Examples of projects can include writing a screenplay or one act theatre piece, writing and performing your own monologue, or a dissertation. You will be able to negotiate your learning.
Academic year
The course operates on a modular basis that provides flexibility and choice.
Typically, the majority of modules are 40 academic credits with a smaller number of 20 credit modules.
Each credit taken equates to a total study time of around 10 hours. Total study time includes scheduled teaching, independent study and assessment activity. Full-time students take modules worth 60 credits per semester, with part-time students taking proportionately fewer credits per semester. All students take a total of 120 credits per level and 360 credits for the degree as a whole.
Your overall grade for the course and your degree classification are based on the marks obtained for modules taken at Levels 5 and 6. The full-time course has one start point in September.