Acting BA(Hons)

Course details

Year one

You’ll study physical, vocal and textual skills and techniques, develop character creation skills and storytelling, and learn acting and performance theories and practices. By developing performance skills and techniques, you’ll get ready for studio-based and context-based acting rehearsals and technical instruction.

Modules

• The Actor’s Instrument
• Performance, Culture & Contexts
• Acting & Story
• The Expressive Actor
• Contemporary Performance Practices & Concepts
• Acting & Character

Year two

You'll improve your physical and vocal skills with acting training, and develop your conceptual and critical skills in research and performance theories. On top of developing a group production, you’ll have the chance to learn skills for media like digital, radio and voiceover. You can then use TV and film scripts to move on to more advanced acting for camera techniques.

Modules

• Performing in Recorded Media
• Acting & Contemporary Performance
• The Integrated Actor
• Acting & Classical Performance
• Screen Acting Skills
• Acting and the Audience: Production 1

Year three

With a full-scale screen acting project, you’ll produce high production value material for your showreel. You’ll turn research and core techniques into a solo performance project, and put on a full-scale public performance to be shown at the Academy of Music and Theatre Arts (AMATA) festival.

Using your practical and theoretical exploration and research, you’ll produce an essay about your acting and performance interests. You'll also grow your industry knowledge through masterclasses, guest speakers and practitioners.

Modules

• Screen Acting Project
• Show in a Bag: Solo Performance Project
• The Thinking Practitioner: Student-led Research
• Professional Preparation
• Acting and the Audience: Production 2