About Performing Arts Studies
Performing Arts Studies is a programme of learning and practice across a range of performance-based disciplines such as dance, drama, music, design and media.
Please note: The major is not intended as professional training for actors, dancers or musicians, and therefore no audition process is involved.
Performing Arts lie at the heart of human self-awareness, and of individual and social identity.
The Performing Arts:
- Stimulate imagination and innovation
- Enable us to keep in touch with our past and our traditions
- Help us gain insight into current issues and enable us to imagine possible futures
- Enable us to express thoughts and ideas in a range of ways and through a variety of media
Ours is an inter-disciplinary programme
An interdisciplinary degree like Performing Arts Studies enables you to have a lot of freedom and flexibility to choose papers and construct a course that reflects your interests and goals.
Performing Arts Studies links courses offered by:
The programme is designed to develop your understanding of the theory and practice
- of interdisciplinary performance activities
- in a variety of social and cultural contexts
and is complementary to a range of other subjects e.g. english, law, marketing.
Ours is a collaborative, flexible programme
Staff and senior students in Performing Arts Studies conduct research and create performances in cooperation with other disciplines and other programmes across the campus. This allows flexibility in professional development and prepares students for diverse career paths, in both academic and professional arts communities.
Our programme enables the development of a range of skills
While the skills and knowledge gained will prove invaluable for those desiring a career in the performing arts, they are equally useful for many career paths.
Skills in creativity, confidence, body-awareness, and lateral thinking are valued, for example, in journalism, advertising, law, medicine, and many other occupations.
Performing Arts Studies develop many generic skills employers seek including:
- Teamwork
- Oral and written communication
- Analysis and conceptualisation
- Lateral and critical thinking
- Creativity
- Self-confidence
- Independent judgment and
- Cultural understanding