This new degree will draw on QMU’s rich and highly respected teaching expertise within the performing arts. This exciting degree will combine intensive actor training with options that allow you to expand your skills to include areas such as community theatre, playwriting, directing, devising and creative entrepreneurship. The rich and varied curriculum means that the course will not only provide a distinctive and complementary course of actor training in the conservatoire tradition but will also provide you with the knowledge and skills required for the diverse range of ways in which you might wish to develop your career as an actor.
Our teaching staff use practical and practice-led methods to explore the ways in which the skills you have already developed through further education can be modified and made appropriate to the constraints of different contexts, media and performance spaces. Core modules will support you to deepen your knowledge of the fundamental skills of acting, voice, movement, textual analysis and interpretation, examining the ways in which they are deployed and synthesised to create character and performance, on stage and screen and media work.
This course enables you to convert an appropriate existing qualification into a degree and is equivalent to years three and four of an honours degree.
As further details of this new course become available they will be updated on our website.
Course Details - Modules
Year Three
•Advanced Acting: Skills
•Advanced Acting: Text and Techniques
•Advanced Acting: Screen and Media
Year Four
•Showcasing Repertoire
•Honours Performance Project
•Creative Entrepreneurial Project
•plus options that could include: Playwriting/ Writing for Radio/ Creativity with the Community/ Drama and Education/ Directing, Designing and Performing Shakespeare/ Directing, Designing and Performing Contemporary Plays/Devised Physical Theatre/ Performance Art Practices
Please check the website for any updates.
Course Details – Assessment Method
A large portion of your course will be delivered through skills-based workshops, you will have the opportunity to undertake student-led research projects, perform in professional standard productions, prepare a personal portfolio to support your career after graduation and showcase your work to industry professionals. You will be assessed through a range of performances, viva, workshops participation, reflective portfolios and reports.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
W410
Institution code:
Q25
Campus Name:
Queen Margaret University
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 3
Year 4
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Direct Entry: HND Acting and Performance/ Musical Theatre with B in the graded unit for the second year. Foundation degrees in appropriate subjects considered. Two years of a relevant degree considered.
International: IELTS of 6.5 with no element lower than 6.0
Auditions: Final selection will be based on an audition.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
Qualifications considered: Higher National Diploma Acting and Performance/Musical Theatre with CB in graded units. OR Foundation degree in appropriate subjects. OR Professional Diploma in Stage and Screen Performance. OR two years of a relevant degree subject (Drama or English etc.).
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS with an overall score equivalent to 6.5 and with no individual component less than 6.0.
