Partner Details

Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts

Awards

Target Award

Award Description:Bachelor of Arts with Honours - BAH
Alternative Exit
Alternative Exit
Alternative Exit

Programme Offerings

Full-Time

F2F-LPA-SEP

Educational Aims of the Course

The programme intends to contribute to the education of musical theatre actors, adept in the interdisciplinary assimilation of acting, singing and dance, through effective, coherent and innovative training that equips graduates as artistic creatives who, in addition to traditional practical skills, develop an ability to utilise practitioner techniques and theoretical insights to critically analyse performance material whilst developing a unique independent methodology and business acumen to maximise the utilities of their skillset. Our programme aims to:

i. Facilitate graduates to obtain employment as versatile actors, singers and dancers across performance mediums and contexts
ii. Develop in students an independent and unique autonomy in technical interdisciplinary practical processes
iii. Utilise student engagement through employment initiatives within the performance industries, including self-employment and entrepreneurial frameworks
iv. Advance in students an appreciation and understanding of cultural, social, political and economic perspectives in musical theatre performance.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Evaluate cultural, critical, and theoretical musical theatre performance perspectives
2.
Evaluate creative and critical exchanges in musical theatre performance
3.
Synthesise a creative application of musical theatre techniques, analysing traditions, histories, forms, and practices
4.
Integrate musical theatre practitioner theories and analyse cultural and/or historical contexts
5.
Evidence independent critical research when creating new performance
6.
Synthesise interdisciplinary technical acting, singing and dance fundamentals in musical theatre performance
7.
Demonstrate original performance choices in response to text, musical score, and dance notation
8.
Exhibit professional collective creative processes
9.
Synthesise a sophisticated creative selection of musical theatre process skills applicable to production requirements
10.
Incorporate vocabularies and techniques appropriate to professional standards in musical theatre performance creation/production
11.
Integrate and analyse text, score and dance notation to interpret and create professional performance
12.
Evaluate the fundamental interdisciplinary components of musical theatre performance
13.
Critique, evaluate and interpret musical theatre performances
14.
Formulate intersectional cultural and critical perspectives in musical theatre performance
15.
Critically evaluate and interpret cultural concepts in musical theatre performance and its reception
16.
Evaluate and demonstrate self-management skills, the ability to set goals, manage workloads, work under pressure, and meet deadlines
17.
Integrate the professional skills needed to plan, realise, and complete collaborative project-based work
18.
Synthesise the skills required to work creatively in collaborative practice-based work
19.
Demonstrate professional negotiation and communication skills
20.
Demonstrate the professional skills to manage creative, personal, and interpersonal issues

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

The course is delivered across a 30-week academic year, at an average of 30+ hours per week. At its progressive levels of study, the course addresses and aligns with hierarchical frameworks, such as Bloom’s Taxonomy, to capture knowledge and comprehension, application and analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. This is implicit within the writing of level and module outcomes, as well as the constructive alignment (Biggs) of learning outcomes for delivery and assessment.
Formative feedback is continuous and ongoing. Summative assessment is structured to allow for developmental learning, and skills and knowledge advancement. Learning outcomes have been crafted within these frameworks to allow for the development of specialist subject-specific discipline skills, knowledge and ideas, intellectual and analytical skills, transferable and professional graduate skills.

Opportunities for work related learning

Some modules may be assessed in professional work-based scenarios.

Programme Structure

Programme Structure Description

Each level of study comprises four 30 credits modules. At each level, a single module – Artistic Practice – exists as a shared module, providing cross-course integration and skills development. The course is a full-time practical training specialising in commercial approaches to the musical theatre disciplines of acting, singing and … For more content click the Read More button below. Acquisition of learning outcomes is through a combination of lectures, small group teaching and practical classes, workshops. Directed production projects, and additional contributions from visiting professionals, specialists, and external professionals, enhance the delivery of outcomes. Cross-modular links connect theory and practice, as well as inter-disciplinary collaboration across the curriculum, supplemented also by opportunities for students to work independently outside the curriculum on self-directed production projects (Artistic Practice). The learner is encouraged to undertake independent research to supplement and consolidate what is taught, to broaden knowledge and understanding of the subject area. All modules are supported by additional resources on Moodle (our Virtual Learning Environment). Assessment (both formative and summative) is through a combination of continuous class assessment, formal and informal presentations, in-house and public performances, formal and informal studio presentations, written/audio/video analyses and/or logbooks as part of a developing portfolio. Within the practical elements of the programme at Level 4, emphasis of assessment is predominately weighted towards the technical demonstration of understanding tested in rehearsals and presentations. At Level 5, the emphasis begins shifts, amalgamating technique and process, with focus on interdisciplinarity and performance toward the end of the level of study. At Level 6, the emphasis develops to focus primarily on performance or product, supported by follow-up written/audio/video analyses, reflections, or evaluations. At all levels, knowledge and Ideas are tested in outcomes 1-5; subject-specific discipline skills in outcomes 6-10; intellectual and analytical skills in outcomes 11-15; and transferable and professional graduate skills in outcomes 16-20. Theory and practice are integrated to inform a cogent and coherent understanding of the intellectual properties of performance works, practitioners, philosophies, and critical theories. Modules involve key research elements concerning practical engagement with performance concepts and the interpretation of source material. Given the practical nature of the programme, technical skills achievement is of kinaesthetic, experiential engagement and activity. Interdisciplinarity demands the application of practice, interpreting theoretical approaches, concepts, and methods. Continuous analysis and interpretation of source material, including individual feedback, runs throughout the programme, as well as self-directed, group and individual study. Skills in powers of expression, self-management, and inter-personal professional working methodologies, including time-management, planning and goal attainment are incorporated at every level, in Artistic Practice, and especially in Project I, II and III at Level 5 and Productions I, II and III at Level 6.

Approved variance from Academic Framework Regulations

This programme has an approved Variance to UG A3.2 which states: ‘Modules comprise 10 or 20 credits except for a research project/dissertation module at Level 6 which may comprise 30 or 40 credits. At Level 7 in integrated Master’s programmes the research project/dissertation module will comprise 40, 50 or 60 … For more content click the Read More button below. In this programme modules may comprise of 15, 30, 45 and 60 credit modules.

Entry Requirements

A levels
Alternative qualifications considered
BTECs
International Baccalaureate
Other international requirements

HECoS Code(s)

(CAH25-02) performing arts