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 actors as actor musicians, adept in the interdisciplinary assimilation of acting, singing and dance, as well as musical instrumentation, arranging, composition and musical direction skills, 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, musicians and composers, 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 actor musician performance perspectives
2.
Evaluate creative and critical exchanges in actor musician performance
3.
Synthesise a creative application of acting and musicianship theatre techniques, analysing traditions, histories, forms, and practices
4.
Integrate acting, musical theatre and music 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 instrumental fundamentals in musical performance
7.
Demonstrate original performance choices in response to text, musical score, and musical arrangements
8.
Exhibit professional collective creative processes
9.
Synthesise a sophisticated creative selection of musical performance process skills applicable to production requirements
10.
Incorporate vocabularies and techniques appropriate to professional standards in musical performance creation/production
11.
Integrate and analyse text, score annotation and musical direction to interpret and create professional performance
12.
Evaluate the fundamental interdisciplinary components of actor musician performance
13.
Critique, evaluate and interpret musical and theatrical performances
14.
Formulate intersectional cultural and critical perspectives in musical performance
15.
Critically evaluate and interpret cultural concepts in musical 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.

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.

Entry Requirements

A levels

Alternative qualifications considered

BTECs

International Baccalaureate

Other international requirements

HECoS Code(s)

(CAH25-02) performing arts