📖Program Curriculum
Modules
Credits
Preparing for Success: Knowledge and Creativity
The module will prepare you for successful progression into academic study while allowing you to learn about and prepare yourself for employment in the twenty-first century through inquiry-based learning problem solving and critical and creative thinking.
Preparing for Success: Self Development and Responsibility
This module enables you to begin developing the Bucks Graduate Attributes associated with leadership and self-development and social and ethical awareness and responsibility which are essential for success in higher education and in the world of work.
Introduction to Performing Arts
This module introduces you to a range of key practitioners and performance skills enabling you to gain an understanding of the varied ways in which performance can communicate effectively with an audience on stage and screen. You’ll work practically gaining an embodied understanding of how performance works. You’ll also be expected to research ke...
Inquiry Based Learning
Delivery of this module is based on ‘confirmation inquiry’ – a foundational level of inquiry geared for developing your understanding of key concepts and themes as well as basic methodologies and approaches to academic work relevant to your discipline. You’ll then have the opportunity to analyse a problem or question that relates to your subject a...
Year 1
Core Modules
Credits
Actor Training and Theory
20.00
This module introduces you to key concepts and methods relating to acting through a practical studio situation. A workshop series will deal with the basic processes of developing character and performing from text. You’ll engage with psychological analytical and imaginative techniques and learn to apply them to physical expression embodied in voi...
Acting Techniques 1 and 2: Voice and Movement
20.00
This module is an introduction to core physical and vocal skills required for performance by exploring various performance-training methods. Throughout the movement strand you’ll be introduced to physical expression for the stage embodiment and abstract movement progressing to a more structured choreographed approach to movement.
Introduction to Production
20.00
This module provides an introduction to skills needed for staging scripted performances within a studio environment. You’ll engage in practical workshops that are teacher led. Scenes will be directed by either a tutor or potentially other students. Learners will explore means of translating these workshops into performances for an audience.
Movement For Screen
20.00
This module engages learners in an in-depth inquiry into movement for camera and screen. You will be introduced to and encouraged to explore physical performance and dance making in which the body of the performer intersects with time space dynamics speed and spatial composition within the cinematic frame.
Performer Training for Stage and Screen
20.00
On this module you’ll acquaint yourself with a range of practical models including their theoretical underpinning. You’ll examine key practitioners and study the wider context within which these practitioners operated and explore the work of the practitioners in practical sessions.
Opportunity Modules
You must choose 2 x 10 credit Level 4 Opportunity modules from the Opportunity module catalogue.
Year 2
Core Modules
Credits
Acting Techniques 3
20.00
The module builds on L4 technique modules in voice and theatre production. You’ll apply existing and develop new skills within a technological context covering both audio and screen work. You will also encounter a range of commercially successful performance texts suited to the range of media platforms through which they are delivered.
The Body and Performance
20.00
The module focuses on engaging you with an in-depth inquiry into their own creative processes. It will encourage engagement in the fundamental processes involved in movement generation and its creative development within performance making.
Theatre and Film Production
40.00
This module builds upon the knowledge and skills gained at Level 4 in ‘Introduction to Production’ and enables you to engage with dramatic literature or devising processes through the development of two productions; the first is for stage the second for film and both enable you to mirror contemporary working practices in the professional world.
Optional Modules
Credits
Directing for Stage OR
20.00
This module explores the working processes of theatre and performance directors: their approaches to the script work with actors and creative teams. You will gain knowledge on rehearsal techniques and different tools to help unlock the performance potential of scenes with emphasis on the working relationship with the actors – how to get the best ...
Directing for Screen 2
20.00
This module explores the working processes of directors for screen: their approaches to script and actors their aesthetic concerns their working methods and other practices. You’ll encounter rehearsal techniques storyboard planning screenplay development and find ways to reveal the subtext of scenes through screen action. You’ll also engage in ...
Opportunity Modules
In addition you must choose 2 x 10 credit Level 5 Opportunity modules from the Opportunity module catalogue.
Year 3
Core Modules
Credits
Advanced Production
40.00
Independent Production enables you to research and implement the findings relating to dramatic literature professional stage and film productions applying findings to the creation of a stage performance or film of your own.
Strategic Professional Practice: Marketing & Promotion
20.00
The aim of the module is for you to understand communicate and critique the structures and policies within the commercial sectors of the performing arts so that as independent artists you can negotiate a pathway to employment or self-employment.
Strategic Professional Practice: Work Placement
20.00
The module aims to enable you to work with performing arts specialists at the forefront of whichever aspect of the discipline you choose to engage with across the performance sector. Based on the notion of ‘legitimate peripheral participation’ you’ll attend a workplace or places over the course of the module to build up your sense of situated kn...
Practical Dissertation
40.00
