BA Theatre and Performance(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed subject knowledge and professional competencies some of which will be informed by recent research/scholarship in the discipline of theatre and performance;

- describe, interpret and evaluate performance texts, techniques, processes and events and to engage creatively and critically with a range of critical and theoretical perspectives pertinent to the fields of theatre, performance and the cultural industries;

- appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in the discipline of theatre and performance;

- initiate and carry out an extended research-based project that demonstrates knowledge of, and critical engagement with, appropriate theories and methodologies;

- work autonomously both independently and in groups;

- engage creatively and critically with the possibilities for performance;

- conform to professional boundaries and norms where applicable.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- qualities and transferable skills necessary and related to working in the field of theatre and performance

- the ability to write in concise and accurate English;

- to work collaboratively as part of a team;

- to respond imaginatively and flexibly to a creative brief;

- to access and utilise appropriate information;

- to problem solve;

- to communicate effectively in a variety of forms and to various audiences;

- to work independently and in groups;

- to collaborate effectively in pursuing goals with others;

- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility

- organisational skills;

- self-motivation;

- working to a deadline;

- punctuality and attendance;

- awareness of health and safety procedures;

- awareness of ethics.

Assessment

The assessment of learning outcomes and skills at level 3 builds on previous years, with students demonstrating greater independence in their approaches to assessment through modules that allow students a greater degree of choice or to take different assessment pathways depending on their interests and strengths.