Course Modules

This module provides you with the opportunity to select an area of study in performance and to develop this over an extended period. Performers are supported in their conception and progression and are required to present a longer and more […]

You will have an opportunity to select an area of study of your choice over an extended period, to research and present their findings in written form.

This module develops competency in business planning with the imaginative use of physical and creative resources. You will examine examples of business projects in commercial and publicly funded music, different marketing models, as well as consider the evolving management cultures

This module explores the development of opera from its innovation in the early 1600s through into the 20th century. You will consider the social and political context in which they were conceived, as well as examine relationships between communication, structural

This module will focus on the development of professional standards in articulating an identified project, presenting and researching information and on the need to work to rigorous deadlines and wordage limits in producing written work. The importance of funding criteria

This module develops your skills in the physical projection of musical expression which will prove invaluable in supporting your performance practice. The ideas and concepts and the inherited behavioural codes which lie behind our instinctive interpretation of movement and gesture

This module sets out to enrich your performance practice with a lively sense of an appropriate performance context for opera and operetta, and develops your scholarly interest in the social context that can help inform this.

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 provides tuition and advice designed to help graduates market themselves as trained professionals, and to provide tuition on peripheral issues such as tax returns and self-employment.

This module examines the theories in the study of performance anxiety and enables you to develop skills in analysing contexts where anxiety can affect performance. The module also allows you to reflect upon how performance anxiety may affect your own