Course Modules

In this module, you will continue to develop personal strategies and competencies in the areas of research, analysis, problem solving, communications and personal management. Refresher sessions will review core knowledge in the areas of psychology, marketing, and project management, while […]

This large (60 credit) module houses all your practical work and forms the foundation for the whole degree programme. You will be supported by a highly skilled faculty of educators to develop your technical and expressive skill as a musical

The module introduces key skills in examining repertoire drawn from succeeding periods of American Musical Theatre history. You will learn to support an examination of musical structure with a parallel focus on developments in dance and drama within the genre.

This module introduces you to key skills in examining repertoire. You will explore repertoire from succeeding periods of British Musical Theatre history and examine musical structure with a focus on developments in dance and drama. Awareness of historic performance practice

This module will introduce, reintroduce and familiarise you with a range of aspects of musical structure and its notation. Alongside this, you will present and discuss your work, both individually and in groups – enhancing skills in teamwork and presentation

This module explores the development of jazz music and its impact on the American musical. Key works from the Gershwin brothers, Rodgers and Hart, Kern and Hammerstein II and Warren and Mack will be utilised as tools to develop your

The module will introduce students to key skills in examining repertoire drawn from succeeding periods of movie musical history, supporting an examination of musical structure with a parallel focus on developments in dance and drama within the genre.

You will explore examples of different types of musical theatre performance and the function of a range of professional roles in commercial and publicly funded contexts.

This module further enhances the foundational and developmental work covered over the first two years, with the addition of specifically embedded, industry-focused audition technique sessions. The importance of critical self-reflection will be emphasised across the final year of study.

The last week of the semester is reserved specifically for our annual devising week, where you will need to draw upon all your skills to complete your final challenge – write, stage and perform an original musical in just five