BA Theatre and Performance Studies 36 months Undergraduate Programme By University of Bristol |TopUniversities
Programme Duration

36 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

31,300 GBPTuition Fee/year

Starting Month

SepStarting Month

Programme overview

Main Subject

Performing Arts

Degree

BA

Study Level

Undergraduate

Study Mode

On Campus

The Theatre and Performance Studies course builds your understanding and practical skills by exploring critical and historical frameworks alongside practical workshops, performance opportunities, and production-based tasks.

There are opportunities to engage with professional theatre-makers and our museum-accredited archive, the Theatre Collection, to develop your range of critical and practical skills while diversifying your awareness of potential future careers.

In your first year, you will learn how to analyse performance while developing practical skills in a range of performance practices, including staging play texts, developing workshops, and engaging in production work for the theatre. In subsequent years, you will choose from a range of options that will deepen your analytical, critical, practical and historical expertise around your interests and aspirations. You will choose units concentrating on research, performance and practice-as-research.

Your degree culminates in an independent study project. This could be a group or individual performance, or a dissertation. You will also have an opportunity to undertake professional development. We have strong links with the creative industries and partners with whom you might undertake professional development have included the Bristol Old Vic, MAYK, Traveling Light Theatre, ACTA and Brave Bold Drama.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Performing Arts

Degree

BA

Study Level

Undergraduate

Study Mode

On Campus

The Theatre and Performance Studies course builds your understanding and practical skills by exploring critical and historical frameworks alongside practical workshops, performance opportunities, and production-based tasks.

There are opportunities to engage with professional theatre-makers and our museum-accredited archive, the Theatre Collection, to develop your range of critical and practical skills while diversifying your awareness of potential future careers.

In your first year, you will learn how to analyse performance while developing practical skills in a range of performance practices, including staging play texts, developing workshops, and engaging in production work for the theatre. In subsequent years, you will choose from a range of options that will deepen your analytical, critical, practical and historical expertise around your interests and aspirations. You will choose units concentrating on research, performance and practice-as-research.

Your degree culminates in an independent study project. This could be a group or individual performance, or a dissertation. You will also have an opportunity to undertake professional development. We have strong links with the creative industries and partners with whom you might undertake professional development have included the Bristol Old Vic, MAYK, Traveling Light Theatre, ACTA and Brave Bold Drama.

Admission Requirements

176+
71+
34+
7+
95+
Typical offer

A-level standard offer: AAB
A-level contextual offer: BBB


English language requirements

If English is not your first language, you need to have one of the following:
• IELTS 7.0 overall with 7.0 in writing and 6.5 in all other skills
• GCSE English Language grade B or 6
• an alternative qualification outlined in our Profile level B.

3 Years
Sep

Tuition fees

Domestic
9,790 GBP
International
31,300 GBP

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