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Partner Details

Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts

Awards

Target Award

Award Description:Master of Arts - MA

Alternative Exit

Alternative Exit

Programme Offerings

Full-Time

F2F-LPA-SEP

Educational Aims of the Course

The programme intends to contribute to the postgraduate education of actors, and its associated disciplines, through intensive, robust and research-driven 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 across performance platforms and contexts
ii. Develop in students an independent and unique autonomy in technical and practical processes
iii. Utilise student engagement through employment initiatives within the creative industries, including self-employment and entrepreneurial frameworks
iv. Advance in students an appreciation and understanding of cultural, social, political and economic perspectives in performance

Learning Outcomes

1.
Synthesise cultural, critical, and theoretical performance perspectives
2.
Appraise creative and critical interactions within performance
3.
Synthesise perceptive critical and creative applications of performance techniques, evaluating traditions, histories, forms, and practices
4.
Enterprise use of key practitioners, practices, theories and their cultural and/or historical contexts
5.
Intelligently hypothesise creative and critical uses for independent research as part of the process of creating new performance
6.
Assimilate the interdisciplinary technical fundamentals for application in performance
7.
Devise original performance possibilities in response to text and media
8.
Exhibit professional collective creative processes
9.
Synthesise refined performance process skills appropriate to production requirements
10.
Incorporate critical performance vocabularies and techniques appropriate to professional working methods in performance creation/production
11.
Synthesise text annotation, analysis, and investigation skills to interpret and create professional performance
12.
Evaluate the fundamental components of performance constructing inventive interdisciplinary vocal, physical, and imaginative functions
13.
Critically analyse, evaluate, and interpret performances and performed events
14.
Critically analyse intersectional cultural and critical perspectives in performance
15.
Critically evaluate and interpret cultural concepts in performance events and its reception
16.
Evaluate self-management processes and demonstrate the ability to set goals, manage workloads, work under pressure, and meet deadlines
17.
Demonstrate the professional skills needed to plan, realise, and complete collaborative project-based work
18.
Synthesise the developed skills required to work creatively and imaginatively in the accomplishment of collaborative practice-based work
19.
Manifest the ability to manage professional and personal workloads efficiently and effectively, meet targets and deadlines, negotiate, and communicate with others
20.
Synthesise a professional aptitude to manage creative, personal, and interpersonal issues constructively and effectively

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

The course is delivered across a 30-week academic year, at an average of 30+ hours per week. The target award, and additional levels of alternative achievement, postgraduate certificate, and postgraduate diploma, are considered within the alignment of Bloom’s Taxonomy, to capture analysis and application, synthesis and evaluation, as well as additional Level 7 expectations. 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

This one-year course comprises four 30 credits modules, with an additional research project module at 60 credits to attain master’s qualification. This module is supported by at least 10 credits of research skills in prior modules (PGA4.4: LJMU Academic Framework Regulations for Postgraduate Taught Programmes, 2022/23). Postgraduate certificate and postgraduate … 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 interdisciplinary collaboration across the curriculum, supplemented also by opportunities for students to work independently outside the curriculum on self-directed production projects (Industry Research Project). The learner is encouraged to undertake independent research to supplement and consolidate what is taught, to broaden a complex evaluation and synthesis of disciplines and ideologies within 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, emphasis of assessment is predominately weighted towards the technical demonstration of application tested in rehearsals and presentations, amalgamating technique and process, with focus on interdisciplinarity and performance toward the end of the level of study. Intensive modules, The Actor's Practice: Project I and Project II emphasise a focus on performance or product, supported by follow-up written/audio/video analyses, reflections, or evaluations. 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 synthesis 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 within each project module (The Actor's Practice: Project I; The Actor's Practice: Project II; The Actor's Practice: Project III (Industry Research Project)).

Structure

Level 7

Approved variance from Academic Framework Regulations

This programme has an approved Variance to PG A.4.2 which states: ‘In postgraduate taught programmes of more than 120 credits modules comprise 10, 20, or 30 credits except for the research project/dissertation module which must be 60 credits’. In this programme modules comprise of 15,30,45 and 60 credit modules. A … For more content click the Read More button below.

Entry Requirements

Alternative qualifications considered

HECoS Code(s)

(CAH25-02) performing arts