BA (Hons) Drama, Acting and Performance Bachelor's degree at UWE Bristol

You'll be introduced to the knowledge, research and skills expected within the creative industries, providing you with the opportunity to deepen your understanding of the aesthetic and formal qualities of your chosen craft and enhance your knowledge of industry roles, activities, processes and skills.

This practical module incorporates actor training for stage and screen where you will encounter different performance approaches and methods, and acquire essential, core skills in these areas.

You'll collaborate on a series of short projects, finding creative and original solutions to production briefs. You'll be trained in technical elements, project management, and performance processes to experiment with making in live or recorded formats.

You'll be introduced to influential scripts for stage, screen and radio, giving you the opportunity to engage with texts that inspire your own creative writing and locate your work within a broader performance context.

You'll develop the skills to undertake research in the screen industries, developing project planning skills and focusing on the elements of screen industries that are of most interest to you.

You'll focus on making live performance, using acting methodology and an understanding of theatre direction. You'll study actor training for stage, and develop your understanding of how to work with theatre directors.

You'll be introduced to key working processes for screen performance and given technical training in readiness for industry expectations as independent actors.

You'll develop skills in making original experimental performance work as part of a collective, responding to local, national or global social, political and cultural events.

Your research project will build on your previous years of learning, resulting in a finished piece of independent work that aligns with your specific area of interest.

You'll be encouraged to engage with creative roles such as actor, director, assistant director, or technical operator, within a staff-facilitated production.

You'll examine how performance can give voice to identity through lenses such as age, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, faith, class, mental health, and disability, raising your awareness of the role of performance in contemporary society.

You'll be encouraged to explore aspects of performance beyond the creative roles of actor, writer or director, by engaging with projects that underpin the business' of the creative industries, e.g. funding, education, production, marketing.