BA (Hons) Contemporary Craft and Creative Writing

The Acting and Drama program at Liverpool Hope University is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the subject, enabling them to develop critical and practical skills that will enhance their creativity and employment prospects. The course combines creative exploration, theoretical reflection and skills training. Students are encouraged to develop as independent thinkers and creators, always ready to respond in innovative and flexible ways to the challenging world.Course Content: The Acting and Drama course deals with various areas of dramatic arts, including performance, technical theatre, and theoretical studies. It covers performance spaces, the changing nature of acting styles, practical skills like voice and movement, technical theatre such as lighting and sound, and theatre history, narrative structures and dramaturgy, contemporary theatre practices, theatre for diverse audiences, and contemporary theatre making. The course also allows for direct contact with range of theatre practitioners, directors, actors, and playwrights.Key Modules: The key modules included in this program are Performance 1 and 2, Theatre Studies 1 and 2, Theatre Making (based on Directing, Applied Theatre, and Playwriting), and Independent Study (an extended study of the student's choice guided by a supervisor).Future Careers: This course equips students with a wide range of transferable skills, making them highly employable. Graduates can expect to work in areas such as professional theatre, stage management, technical theatre (lighting, sound, and costume), theatre in education, drama therapy and other caring professions, arts administration, or they may choose to continue their studies at postgraduate level.For more information on this course, please visit the official course page here.