Course Modules

You will study accents as your compulsory strand at Level 5, and select one additional skill from a list of options. This could include streetfighting, acting through song, period and social dance and horse riding (with prior proficiency).

This module will build on the skills you developed in your first year. Alongside your acting classes, you may also experience practical classes in writing and directing for film, historical acting and site-specific work.

Spotlight Skills involves one compulsory strand and one free choice strand each year. The compulsory strand at Level 4 is Introduction to Film Making, which introduces you to a broad set of skills in film making, such as location hunting,

This module explores the definition and nature of the ‘icon’ within the context of film and investigates how and why actors and actresses might acquire icon status over time.

This module walks you through the various paradigms within the film industry and the use of filmic devices for dramatic and expressive intention.

You will select an area of your own repertoire to research theoretically and in terms of its broader context, presenting results either in written form or as a linked sequence of performance recordings.

Reflect on the specialist practice that exists within your own discipline and examine the raft of individual elements reflected in tessitura, articulation and dynamics, as well as more innovative techniques of performance and teaching.

Develop an understanding of the close relationship between musical performance and extramusical communication skills, reviewing and analysing the work of a range of artists and practitioners relevant to your area of interest.

You will enhance your perception of performance as communication. You are encouraged to explore an individual voice in the production of an original and engaging lecture recital presentation.

You will select an area of your own repertoire to research theoretically and in terms of its broader context. You will have the opportunity to organise and sustain in depth study and research of musical materials over a period of