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

• To develop professional level design and technical skills across a range of performance, utilising well-established and emerging technologies, as well as encouraging creative innovation.
• To stimulate and focus the students’ enthusiasm, creativity, joy, and passion in their discipline.
• To cultivate a critical awareness of the social, economic, and cultural factors that impact on performance, both nationally and internationally.
• To encourage the ability to act independently and as part of a team, as an effective, and creative multi-skilled professional.
• To promote working methods that follow recognised industry good practice.
• To provide the student with the knowledge and skills to sustain a career in the field of theatre, production, technology, and the wider cultural industries.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Demonstrate operational practice and convention in a range of theatre technology equipment and systems.
2.
Work to current industry practice, engaging creatively and critically in a specialist discipline and using relevant technologies.
3.
Apply appropriate information technology skills with considerable awareness of their application and potential.
4.
Design and plan to a brief, delivering work within budget, ethical working practices, equipment, and personnel constraints, and providing technical solutions to complex production problems.
5.
Demonstrate high level skills in self-management and ability to independently set goals, manage workloads, work under pressure, and meet deadlines.
6.
Perform effectively within a team environment including leadership, team building, influencing and collaborative skills.
7.
Manage risk and health and safety considerations in accordance with industry specific regulations for performance and entertainment events.
8.
Conduct independent research, examine a range of contrasting critical perspectives and explore their significance to make informed opinions and communicate in a sophisticated way.
9.
Think reflexively to develop ideas and construct and present an argument effectively, drawing upon a comprehensive range of critical perspectives and evidence.
10.
Demonstrate highly creative and intelligent understanding of how key components of performance and production interact to communicate and provide meaning.
11.
Plan and record self-learning and development as the foundation for lifelong learning and evaluate professional opportunities for sustained employment in a chosen industry sector.
12.
Synthesise a range of approaches to achieve successful professional relationships and evaluate techniques to solve creative collaborative issues.
13.
Establish an awareness of the key business revenue types, legalities, unions, employment contract agreements and associations related to the live entertainment industry.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

The aim of the programme is to develop a flexible, scaffolded curriculum, which with progression increases the responsibilities and challenges through deliberate practise primarily through project-based learning. Students are required to progress through levels of skill development and apply them in creative and technical learning environments that mirror professional practice. Methods of delivery include:

Lectures/Talks
A member of staff or a visiting lecturer giving a talk on a given theme or subject matter as stimulus or information pertinent to the module.

Seminars
Smaller group discussions on given topics or themes, which may be led by staff or students.

Workshop Demonstrations
A member of staff may demonstrate how technical equipment or processes work.

Workshop Classes
A member of staff may work with up to 6 students in a technical environment. This method is primarily employed to demonstrate principles on a practical, one-to-one basis, while ensuring that this knowledge is imparted to an extended group of students and that conceptual links between theory and practice are made.

Production Work
Working either independently or under tutor direction in studio, theatre, or other locations.

Tutorials
Normally on a one-to-one basis, individual tutorials are designed to help guide students through the process of their (largely) self-directed work at Level 6. Supervising tutors are allocated for dissertations, research projects and practical projects, and their role is to support the student’s own work process, as well as to monitor progress.

Field Study / Visit
An organised and normally accompanied student visit to alternative locations, for example recording studios, trade shows, venues, AV facilities.

 

Opportunities for work related learning

The programme design is focused on providing a vocational training which mirrors professional practice. Project, work-based learning is a core activity and the primary forum for teaching, learning and assessment. There is further engagement with the industry through the Industry Placement module at Level 5.

Programme Structure

Programme Structure Description

All modules at Level 4 are core, with no options. At Level 5, 75 credits are core. In addition, students choose 1 x 45 credit option from those listed. All options are always available. There are no prerequisites in these choices. All modules at Level 6 are core, with no … For more content click the Read More button below.

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