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pg00002 EDUCATIONAL AIMS OF THE PROGRAMME The Award área aims to provide a rigorous and challenging programme. To develop intellectual and practical skills and capabilities in the interpretation and study of dramatic texts and other aspects of theatre. To develop an understanding of the professional approach to theatre production, rehearsal and performance. To develop employability skills required for the world of work through the integration of practice and theory, as well as of experiential learning and collaborative work. To develop confidence in communication, creativity and self-expression. To promote the appreciation of drama and theatre as a live event. To encourage a critical and creative understanding of the relationship between text and performance. To provide you with knowledge and understanding of the key developments in theatre history, dramatic writing, and theatre To introduce you to debates within theatre practice To enhance your capacities to cultívate your own research and self-directed study. To provide a basis for your personal and creative skills to be utilised in the world of work, whether in professional theatre, education or elsewhere, or as a basis for further academic post-graduate study or vocational training. What is distinctive about this programme? The principie objects of study in the field of Acting and Theatre Arts at Staffordshire University are dramatic literature, playwrights and practitioners, the nature and practice of contemporary acting and the history, methodology and organisation of the professional theatre industry, including the technical theatre arts, professional community theatre and applied theatre practice. We reqard current mainstream theatre-industry methodology to be the highest standard of 'best practice' and this award maintains a core principie of teaching and utilizing professional practice in both mainstream theatre and contemporary performance work - in combination with scholarship and dramaturgy in the form of theatre studies. At the heart of the ethos of the Acting and Theatre Arts programme is a commitment to provide you with an opportunity to explore a wide range of industry-based theatre disciplines, styles, methods, genres and approaches. The overall approach of the award is to balance, and draw strength from academic knowledge and practical experience The drama team also believe that this award will instil an appreciation of the inspirational and civilising power of the arts and raise the cultural, as well as the vocational aspirations of our graduates within the community. </div>