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, and its associated disciplines, 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:

  1. Facilitate graduates to obtain employment as versatile actors across contemporary performance platforms and contexts.
  2. Develop in students an independent and unique autonomy in technical multidisciplinary practical processes.
  3. Utilise student engagement through employment initiatives within the creative industries, including self-employment and entrepreneurial frameworks.
  4. Advance in students an appreciation and understanding of cultural, social, political, and economic perspectives in contemporary performance.

Learning Outcomes

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

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 contemporary approaches to acting, theatre and screen performance. All modules are … 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.’

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