Acting for Stage and Screen - BA (Hons)
University of Staffordshire
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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University of Staffordshire (Stoke Campus)

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Stoke-on-Trent Campus

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SEP-26

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Course info

This highly practical degree introduces you to acting and drama techniques via practical workshops. Your theoretical knowledge will also grow out of your experience in the studio. Assessments are built around performance and filmed work too as well as practice as research. You’ll also work with students in animation and film on various digital media projects. The aim of our Acting for Stage and Screen degree is to create skilled creative practitioners with an ability to work across all ...Read more

This highly practical degree introduces you to acting and drama techniques via practical workshops. Your theoretical knowledge will also grow out of your experience in the studio. Assessments are built around performance and filmed work too as well as practice as research. You’ll also work with students in animation and film on various digital media projects. The aim of our Acting for Stage and Screen degree is to create skilled creative practitioners with an ability to work across all performance mediums, balancing acting for TV, film and digital media alongside theatre.While the focus is on theatre-making, the transferable skills you develop can prepare you for a range of careers. It could include postgraduate study to become a teacher, as well as work in the wider performing arts and creative industries. Acting, drama and theatre-making workshops form the basis of your course, with further classes developing your critical, contextual and evaluative skills.CareersThis degree will prepare you for a variety of professions associated with performing arts. Many of our graduates now work as actors and directors.Our graduates are also successful in related areas, such as drama and English teaching and drama therapy, following relevant postgraduate study. Other drama department graduates have applied their skills and now work as stage managers, youth theatre directors, independent practitioners, arts administrators and theatre managers.

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74/279
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47th
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94th
What students say
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Chloe
03 Mar 23

I think that the shared university spaces are really nice and cleanly to study but I have issues with the facilities in the drama department, rooms are damp and run down. Overall..Read more

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Florian
24 Feb 23

My lecturers are fantastic and while the drama department doesn't have the best facilities, they totally make up for..Read more

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Entry requirements

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A level

A level:

BBC Grades / Points required

Scottish Higher:

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UCAS Tariff:

112 - 120 Grades / Points required

Access to HE Diploma:

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OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma:

DMM Grades / Points required

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):

DMM Grades / Points required

T Level:

Pass (C and above) Grades / Points required

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£9,535 per year

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£9,535 per year

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Students from England

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£9,535 per year

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Students from Scotland

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£9,535 per year

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Students from Wales

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£9,535 per year

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Students from Northern Ireland

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£9,535 per year

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Students from Channel Islands

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£16,750 per year

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Students from EU

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£16,750 per year

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Chloe
03 Mar 23
Acting for Stage and Screen - BA (Hons)
I think that the shared university spaces are really nice and cleanly to study but I have issues with the facilities in the drama department, rooms are damp and run down. Overall...
Read more
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Florian
24 Feb 23
Acting for Stage and Screen - BA (Hons)
My lecturers are fantastic and while the drama department doesn't have the best facilities, they totally make up for...
Read more
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University of Staffordshire
College Road Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2DE United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Stoke-on-Trent  0.1 miles away

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