Course Summary

**Note: Due to the course delivery location and visa restrictions, this course is NOT available to international students requiring a Tier 4 visa**. **Location**: This top-up degree is an award of Teesside University delivered in partnership with Stockton Riverside College (campus code 3, call 01642 865400). Indicate your point of entry as Year 3 when applying for this one year top-up. **Course overview**: If you have a higher national diploma, foundation degree or equivalent qualification in a performing arts or events production subject, the extra year of study on this top-up degree provides you with the opportunity to gain a BA (Hons) qualification. You develop your knowledge and understanding of a range of contexts in which performance and production have developed and are practised. Today’s production industries demand highly trained, professional practitioners who can demonstrate a clear understanding of contemporary creative performance and production techniques. If you want a career in performing arts and the wider industry, this is the course for you. **After the course**: Employers recognise the benefits of an arts-production training background and when you leave the course you bring to the workplace a wide range of highly valued skills. The ability to communicate effectively and with confidence, work independently to meet deadlines, and shape and use industry-standard materials and equipment creatively and with imagination are just a few of the qualities you can offer prospective employers.

Course Details - Modules

Access course information through Teesside University’s website using the course details link provided.

Course Details – Assessment Method

We adopt various teaching methods in order to challenge and stimulate. These include lectures on critical theory, learner-developed seminars, practical classes for putting theory into practice, project-based work including final major performance projects, tutorials, master classes from visiting professionals and independent research activities. Assessment activities include a combination of assignments, presentations, practical workshops and the completion of a personal development portfolio. You also take part in a number of public performances, designed to assess both your rehearsal process and live performance.

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: W493

Institution code: T20

Campus Name: Stockton Riverside College

Campus code:

Points of Entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.

International applicants

Standard Qualification Requirements


Applicants to this top-up degree are required to undertake an audition. A typical offer is based on 96 credits from a foundation degree or higher national diploma in a performance or technical production-related subject area (or equivalent qualification). **Indicate point of entry as Year 3 when applying.** Due to the course delivery location and visa restrictions, this course is NOT available to international students requiring a Tier 4 visa.

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
English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.

Unistats information

Student satisfaction : 80%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 70%

Go onto work and study: 86%

Fees and funding

England 9250.0 Year 1
Northern Ireland 9250.0 Year 1
Scotland 9250.0 Year 1
Wales 9250.0 Year 1

Additional Fee Information

Find out more about fees and funding if you are from the UK here: tees.ac.uk/fees. If you live in the Channel Islands or Isle of Man contact your education authority: gov.uk/student-finance. Fees for EU applicants will be confirmed soon. Note: Due to the course delivery location and visa restrictions, this course is NOT available to international students requiring a Tier 4 visa.

Provider information

Teesside University
Middlesbrough
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Tees Valley
TS1 3BX

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