Entry requirements: Normally a first or second-class Honours degree or professional experience in the area of study
Full-time: 1 year
Part-time: 2 years
Programme Leader: Stephen Hall
Telephone +44 (0) 1962 827116
Email: Stephen.Hall@winchester.ac.uk
If English is not your first language: IELTS 6.5 (including 6.5 in academic writing) or a TOEFL score of 575 (paper-based) or 232 (computer-based) or equivalent
Start dates: September
Application process: UKPASS (full-time applicants only) or Direct Entry Application Form (part-time applicants only)
The main principle that defines the programme is a focus on individual approaches and/or interest in research areas. Thus, individual students are able to pursue their own area of research/ performance-as-research interest in the field, applying some of the generic skills that they develop in the various taught modules.
The Research Methods module focuses on developing generic study skills and research methodologies. The other modules develop a range of contemporary strategies and
approaches to text and the development of practice-based methodologies, which inform the development of the Advanced Theatre Project (where students will be placed in partner venues) and their final Independent Project.
• Research Methods
• Gateway to Independent Study
• Independent Project
• Ensemble Theatre Project
• Advanced Performance Skills
• Staging the Text
• Advanced Theatre Project
Students are introduced to a range of advanced practical approaches to texts and performance from contemporary theatre practice in the introductory modules.
There is a variety of assessment within this programme, with both research and practical skills being developed towards student-led projects, which take the form of producing new theatre works as well as a written dissertation or practice-led project.
The programme offers students a variety of opportunities for employment in the field of the performing arts, especially as companies or practitioners in their own right. The wider
skills in theatre practices and research methodologies that the course offers, coupled with the industry engagement, could see graduates move on to work in arts administration, as arts officers or within funding bodies. The subject specific skills might also see students go on to teach in further education or higher education contexts. Also, the potential to develop perspectives on practice-as-research within their independent study may also encourage students to consider doctoral study.