Awards
Target Award
Award Description:Bachelor of Arts with Honours - BAH
Alternative Exit
Alternative Exit
Alternative Exit
Programme Offerings
Full-Time
F2F-JMU-SEP
Educational Aims of the Course
To provide a collaborative and co-operative context in which to explore Drama as a medium of communication for the individual and the group. To foster students creative enthusiasm for Drama, by engaging in scholarship through practice. To facilitate opportunities for students to develop understanding of the techniques and skills, along with the artistic and cognitive insights necessary to engage effectively in the study and practice of Drama. To promote the development of graduates who are critical independent thinkers possessing a range of transferable skills. To embed undergraduate learning in a learning community informed by research and evolving practice in Drama, Theatre and Performance. To enable students to view their own work in the wider context of employability and possible graduate pathways.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Describe, interpret and evaluate performance texts from a range of critical and theoretical perspectives
2.
Engage in independent and group research as part of the processes of experimentation and creating new theatre works.
3.
Envisage and articulate the performance potential implied by a playscript or text
4.
Analyse and evaluate their work and the work of others in an appropriate critical framework;
5.
Exercise independent judgement, undertake investigations, select and present cogent conclusions about a given body of information and engage in rational informed debate
6.
Engage in performance and production of a script based on an acquisition and understanding of appropriate performance and production vocabularies, skills, structures and working methods.
7.
Work collaboratively to make new work or original interpretations of extant work, both in ensemble and individual contexts, as a creative practitioner in an identified role and in a range of theatre contexts.
8.
Effect significant communication with an audience through the application of the practical production skills associated with performance.
9.
Apply performance and workshop techniques associated with key cultural forms or practitioners.
10.
Apply and maintain professional employment standards of ethics, codes of conduct and industry working practices in a company context
Teaching, Learning and Assessment
Knowledge and understanding is acquired via skill based and exploratory workshops, lectures, seminars, production work and discursive sessions in tutorial. Knowledge and understanding is assessed via coursework including group and individual practical work supported by evaluative statements/reports, formal essays, oral presentations, dissertations and viva voce, including self and peer assessment where appropriate. Intellectual (thinking) skills are promoted through teaching in lectures, practical class, seminar group discussion and tutorial. Learning to apply these thinking skills to drama is achieved by practical production work, formal essays and independent projects. Intellectual (thinking) skills are assessed by coursework essays, oral presentations and viva. At level 6, students, with appropriate guidance undertake extended independent research and write a dissertation, which both addresses and measures key thinking. Workshop based classes and production projects are the fundamental means of teaching and learning practical skills. Self, group and tutor evaluation inform the learning process at all levels but particularly so at Levels 4 and 5. At level 6 students' independence to experiment, develop and test their practical skills in creative projects is supported by regular meetings with staff and peers. Students set themselves targets for the acquisition of specific skills following Personal Development Planning (PDP) meeting with personal tutors and have the opportunity as the course progresses to identify a particular area of specialism in practice for L6 study, which is related to their understanding of their own employability or pathway after graduation. PDP further functions as a forum for discussion and a conduit for advice towards furthering the progress of the practice and the attendant skills. Specialist teachers are employed as necessary on courses requiring specific skills relevant to production projects. Assessment of the practical skills is via coursework, workshop and production projects. Assessment involves the staff team monitoring and marking both the process and performance against agreed and written criteria. Assessment of process learning is facilitated by tutor observation, individual logs, self-evaluative essays, self and peer assessment, and viva voce. Furthermore, there are other methods involved; for example Level 6 now includes a Platform presentation which is a short lecture/demonstration connecting scholarship and personal practice, and simulated professional contexts (audition/interview) are employed in developing and assessing Theatre Portfolio at Level 6. Transferable skills are taught and developed through seminars, group work, tutorials, independent study, and work-related learning. Sustained independent learning is supported by individual or group tutorials, individual or group supervision, and the formulation of learning agreements. Independence both artistically and in terms of scholarship increases incrementally with the levels. Students receive induction into basic IT skills at Level 4 and are encouraged to use these skills throughout all levels. CANVAS is used to support students' learning on all modules. The ethic of group work is established at level four, based on industry best practices, and developed throughout the programme. Communication and creative skills and endeavour are central to the programme and inform all practical and production work at all levels. Assessment of transferable skills is through coursework at all levels. The forms of assessment are structured over the three years of the degree to allow students to develop certain transferable skills, such as those of presentation (oral or written) and communication, collaboration, self-reflection and the skills involved in learning independently.
Programme Structure
Programme Structure Description
The programme lasts three years and leads at the end of the third year to the award of a BA (with honours). All modules are assigned a credit value according to the number of learning hours planned. All modules on the Drama programme are worth 20 credits as specified by … For more content click the Read More button below.
Structure
Level 4
Level 5
Level 6
Entry Requirements
A levels
Access awards
Alternative qualifications considered
BTECs
GCSEs and equivalents
IELTS
International Baccalaureate
Interview required
Irish awards
NVQ
Reduced offer scheme
T levels
UCAS points
Welsh awards
Extra Entry Requirements
Can this course be deferred?
Yes
Is a DBS check required?
No
OCR National acceptability
- National Certificate: Acceptable only when combined with other qualifications
- National Diploma: Acceptable only when combined with other qualifications
- National Extended Diploma: Acceptable on its own and combined with other qualifications
HECoS Code(s)
(CAH25-02) performing arts