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Drama MA – (M.A.)
University of Worcester
Master Programmes
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 4,460 - | ||
| Location: | Worcester / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Worcester
Students select to specialise either Theatre and Young People or New Theatre Practices allowing them to develop expertise and profile in one of these pathways and at the same time to benefit from taking a number of shared core modules common to both courses. Both programmes enable students to develop substantial work experience through the course’s close contacts with the profession.
This is a new post graduate programme designed to enable students to engage with an advanced approach to practice against a framework of academic research, through group work, individual supervision, seminars, workshops and professional mentoring sessions. There is a focus on partnerships with the professional theatre community and students are able to form close links with directors, companies and theatre venues in the region, through work placements and production opportunities.
Drama at Worcester provides a vibrant research environment for students to develop and refine their own practice. The course is an excellent grounding for emerging theatre practitioners: directors, performers and writers. Graduating students may also follow careers in postgraduate research, lecturing or teaching, theatre administration, the media and community arts.
The course is delivered by experienced lecturers who are internationally recognized researchers, professional practitioners, and experienced teachers. Among the staff team’s specialist interest areas are theatre for young people, devised performance, multi-media theatre, site specific and immersive theatre and classical adaptation. Intermediate awards
Students who wish to qualify at the level of PG Dip Theatre and Young People or PG Dip New Theatre Practices can do so by taking a reduced selection of modules. Students can achieve a PG Cert in Drama by taking a smaller selection of modules.
Earn-as-you-learn opportunities
All those accepted onto the MA programme are invited to audition for the Drama Department’s own production company which coordinates a programme of paid work and professional opportunities in theatre for students. Production projects this year involving drama students ranged from performing in touring productions for schools and colleges, to leading drama workshops for local community groups and from running comedy nights in a local club, to undertaking commissions for commercial companies.
Contents
Modules
A sample of available modules includes:
Mandatory Modules:
Research Methods in Drama & Performance
Audience, Performer, Space
Ideology and Aesthetics in Theatre Performance
Advanced Independent StudyFor the award of Masters – The Advanced Independent Study, which may be written or a combination of practical and written work, must be taken.
Optional Modules
Students will select according to their specialist pathway in Theatre and Young People or New Theatre Practices.
Specialist Negotiated Project
Work-Placement module
Theatre and Young Audiences
Directing and Authorship
Site Specific Performance
Theatre and Education
Sexuality and Performance
Theatre and Disability
Running a Theatre Company
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
The MA programme is designed for students with a good honours degree in Drama or other humanities subject areas. It is also appropriate for theatre practitioners or drama teachers wishing to develop their academic qualifications and for overseas students seeking to deepen their knowledge and experience of theatre in the UK. In certain circumstances, people without conventional academic qualifications, who have significant experience in Drama, may be accepted onto the course.
Anyone interested in the programme is invited to contact Drama Subject Leader Elizabeth Swift (e.swift@worc.ac.uk) for an informal discussion about the course. All applications will be invited to attend an interview – in the case of International applicants this may be done online.
If English is not your first language, you will be expected to have reached a sufficient standard on admission to the course (e.g. IELTS 6.5, with a minimum of 6.0 in each element).
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 570 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 230 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 88 |
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