2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA Theatre and Performance with Enterprise

Total credits: 360

Entry requirements:

Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of Performance and Cultural Industries

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

Dance, Drama and Performance

Programme specification:

Context, Content and Structure

The course offers a unique blend of study across performance and the cultural industries and the Leeds University Business School that sets it apart from similar programmes both in the UK and internationally. Studying these two areas in conjunction with each other allows our students to develop:
- The creativity of the artist
- The insight of the cultural activist
- The dynamism of the entrepreneur

These attributes prepare our graduates for a wide variety of employment destinations across the creative and cultural industries.

This programme blends a focus on 20th and 21st century theatre and performance practices with modules on business development, finance and social enterprise, delivered by collaborative partners in the Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Studies. This creates a distinctive programme, developing specific skills in the areas of creativity, business development and finance.

Core sets of modules that deliver key frameworks for theoretical, creative and practical study. This includes modules, such as Level 1 Studio Practices and Level 2 Creative Practices, that foreground the development and application of performance practice and studio skills, exploring them in relation to key contemporary debates. Students will also engage with global perspectives on performance, and how it is informed by and mediated through digital technologies.

These are complemented by an exciting range of options and Discovery modules that are rooted in staff specialisms and research activity, and which further allow students the opportunity to broaden their understanding of Theatre and Performance. This may include exploring elements of performance practice in more detail (Theatre Directing, Performance Design and Space), further explore its wider impacts (Exploring the Performing Arts, Contemporary Theatre Makers) or situate theatre and performance in the wider cultural industries (Arts and Cultural Management, Contemporary Issues in Arts and Culture). Expertise and technical resource in the School, provides the opportunity to engage with immersive and interactive performance and digital performance practices.

Modules in the prestigious Leeds University Business School explore the theory and practice of enterprise, management and entrepreneurship (Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice, Starting your Own Business, Managing Innovation in Business). Taught in an interdisciplinary context, they will enhance skills in collaboration and working across dynamic and diverse contexts, including a focus on topics such as social enterprise and new enterprise planning (Understanding Social Enterprises, New Enterprise Planning). This recognises the importance of enterprise and entrepreneurial skills in the theatre sector and wider cultural industries as exemplified by the significant number of Performance and Cultural Industries graduates who go on to found theatre companies and/or work entrepreneurially across portfolio careers.

Students will be supported in developing, recognising and reflecting on their skills throughout the programme. Modules at each Level provide support and opportunities for students to develop their academic literacy and progress towards autonomous self-directed research activity. This is particularly evident in the pathway through the refreshed Level 1 module Studying Theatre & Performance and the new Level 2 module Reflection and Research which scaffold the student journey towards the two Level 3 modules Enterprise Project and Negotiated Project where students can engage in research-based learning, bringing together skills and experiences from across their programme journey. In Enterprise Project (40 credits), students will develop an entrepreneurial solution to an identified problem or opportunity, working independently and supervised through tutorials and seminars. Negotiated Project (20 credits) will provide students the opportunity for further develo p skills as independent researchers and practitioners, through the option of developing a written research project or piece of practice. The project and practical elements here further enhance students’ opportunities for applying employability skills and authentic assessment.

To support this the School’s teaching team offers a wide variety of research-based disciplinary specialisms from across the fields of performance and the cultural industries, including for example: applied performance, movement and physical theatre, arts management and cultural policy, devising and directing, and interactive and digital performance.

The School’s relationship with the University’s public licensed professional theatre provides many opportunities for students to become involved in its activities both through the curriculum and as volunteers or as a member of one of the many Student Union performance societies. These opportunities offer the unique experience of working in a professional theatre environment within a university context.

All students have the option to broaden their experience and to strengthen global and cultural insights through choosing to study abroad at a partner institution or to opt for an industry year.
- Study Abroad: From their 2nd year of study students have the opportunity to apply to spend time abroad. The University has over 300 University partnerships worldwide and popular destinations for our students include Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, South Africa and Latin America.
- Work Placements: This programme gives the option to choose to undertake a placement module and to apply to take a placement year with organisations across the public, private and voluntary sectors in the UK, or overseas.

Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Students must study 120 credits comprised from a mix of compulsory and optional modules adding up to 120 credits.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 0-20 credits from the the following optional modules:

You will choose 20 credits from the below:

Candidates will be required to study 0-20 credits from the following optional modules:

Discovery modules:

Candidates will be required to study 0-20 credits of the following discovery modules:

Candidates will be required to study 0-20 credits of discovery modules

Year2 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Students must study 120 credits comprised from a mix of compulsory and optional modules adding up to 120 credits.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 20-40 credits from the following optional modules:

Basket 1 - Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules:

Basket 2. Candidates will be required to study 0-20 credits from the following optional modules:

Discovery modules:

Candidates will be required to study 0-20 credits of discovery modules.

Candidates will be required to study 0-20 credits of discovery modules

Year3 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Students must study 120 credits comprised from a mix of compulsory and optional modules adding up to 120 credits.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 20-40 credits of the following optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 20-40 credits from the following modules:

Candidates may study 20 credits from the following modules:

Discovery modules:

Candidates will be required to study 0-20 credits of discovery modules.

Last updated: 02/05/2024 15:59:37

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