Modules

Trimester one Your Skills module prepares you with an essential ‘directors toolkit’, ensuring you have the professional skills and knowledge to facilitate a safe and creative space, direct actors and collaborate with other artists. Your Profession Practice module offers you an opportunity to develop your individual professional practice and technique through small scale productions, research and development projects or work placements. Weekly seminars bring together history and the current practices of directing and performance, to advance your directing skills. Trimester two Your Skills training will continue to enhance your work, and you’re encouraged to create original work, either with your own chosen cast, with a University production, or a professional company. You’ll get to bring your work into SparkFest, the festival we run in collaboration with Bath Festivals. Additionally, you’ll take a Professional Collaboration module that provides both tools and experience in working with a wide range of artists and developing performances to grow your professional profile. Trimester three You can choose to undertake a more traditional written dissertation, a performance based dissertation, or a mixture of the two. You might direct a production, lead workshops, or research areas relating to directing as part of your dissertation.

Assessment method

You’ll be assessed by a range of methods, including:

• Performance portfolios

• Proposal documents for artistic ideas

• Research projects

• Presentations

• Viva voces

• Reflective learning and work-based reports or journals