Creative & Performing Arts

<div id="tab2" class="tab grid_8 alpha hide-on-small" style="display: block;"> <div class="courseLinks hide-on-medium-down"> <img src="/media/liverpoolhope/styleassets/cssimages/media,975,en.gif" alt="print Icon" style="width : 24px; height : 24px; "> <span><a href="javascript:window.print()">print this page</a></span> <span class="st_sharethis_custom" st_processed="yes"><a href="#">share this course</a></span> </div> <h2>Curriculum</h2> <p>The courses and topics available to study include:</p> <p><strong>Level C (Year One)</strong></p> <p>Foundations of Creative and Performing Arts</p> <ul> <li>You will study Dance &amp; Movement, Drama &amp; Performance and Music &amp; Sound in isolation, gaining fluency in theory and practice so as to develop an appreciation of the conceptual framework in which each exists.</li> <li>Five weekly lectures providing you with a grounding in the principles and practitioners of the creative and performing arts.</li> <li>Three weekly seminars to explore practically ideas discussed in the lectures.</li> <li>In small groups you will have a weekly tutorial developing the themes of the lecture series and deepening your conceptual understanding of the various philosophical contexts in which the creative and performing arts function.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Level I (Year Two)</strong></p> <p>Explorations of Creative and Performing Arts</p> <ul> <li>Emphasis on critical study of and interdisciplinarity between the creative and performing arts.</li> <li>Choose which two of the three disciplines to focus on for the remainder of your undergraduate, creating work that combines different qualities of both.</li> <li>Three weekly lectures and one weekly tutorial in which you are introduced to a select range of critical frameworks in your chosen two disciplines and are assessed on your ability to apply these to your own practice.</li> <li>You will take part in four practical assessments divided between two themed ‘Project Weeks’ which are devised from your practical seminars.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Level H (Year Three)</strong></p> <p>Advanced studies in Creative and Performing Arts</p> <ul> <li>Emphasis on you developing research-informed practice of a professional standard, drawing together your knowledge and skills accrued throughout the course.</li> <li>Lectures and tutorials designed to develop you as a researcher within the creative and performing arts.</li> <li>Practical seminars will help you develop a year-long performance project of your own devising, equipping you with the necessary practitioner skills to develop your own signature practice.</li> <li>You will complete a dissertation of your own devising, with supervision from a member of staff.</li> </ul> </div>