IELTS 6.5, with no component below 5.5
Explore the overlap between art and theatre. Let one influence the other and develop your professional practice with BA Art and Theatre.
This joint art degree enables you to develop a critical understanding of contemporary art and modern theatre. You will have the opportunity to complement your art practice with practical work in theatre.
In art, you will join a lively and creative community, explore a vast range of media and experiment with emerging art forms. You'll be assigned a dedicated studio space, accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and a studio tutor who will help you develop your individual and professional practice.
Regular trips to museums and art galleries will prompt thoughts on how art is displayed and received. You will gain professional experience throughout your degree by taking part in your own exhibitions, public art commissions and events. Your teaching staff are all artists, curators and researchers of international standing and will encourage regular exhibitions and open debate.
In theatre studies you will investigate a range of contemporary practices from verbatim to immersive, site specific work and examples of digital technologies in live performance. You can explore theatre from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, covering the work of international and British playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Caryl Churchill and Sarah Kane.
Practical work complements your critical and theoretical study allowing you to apply what you learn through practice, drawing on the market-leading facilities of the £11.4m Minghella building, including three theatre spaces, a film and television studio, cutting rooms and audio post-production facilities, and a digital cinema. You will investigate theatre with academics working at the cutting edge of research, and attend performances ranging from popular forms of theatre to performance art.
Placements and collaborations are actively encouraged and there is also the chance to experience life in another country. Opportunities for work-based learning and personal development complement your core learning.
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Year 1
Core modules include:
Art studio
Reading objects, writing images
Introduction to theatre
Optional modules include:
Making meaning
Introduction to film
Introduction to television
Modernisms and mythologies
What is the contemporary?
Medium, media and materials
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 2
Core modules include:
Art studio including career management skills
Performance and nation
Optional modules include:
Mapping the London art world: dealers, spaces, value, collectors
Film forms and cultures
Performance and identity
Creative practice: theatre
Creative industries and professional development
Radical forms and cultures in theatre
Film authorship
Film genre
Popular television genres
Critical collaborative methods
Aesthetic and anti-aesthetic
Visual thinking and material writing
International study visit
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 3
Core modules include:
Art studio
Optional modules include:
Contemporary performance A
Contemporary performance B
Popular film genres A
Popular film genres B
Representing conflict on stage and screen A
Representing conflict on stage and screen B
Storytelling in film A
Storytelling in film B
Television and contemporary culture A
Television and contemporary culture B
The director and the theatre A
The director and the theatre B
World cinema A
World cinema B
Image action text
Affect, aesthetics and the event
Utopias and other worlds
Landscape and memory
Independent study
Please note that all modules are subject to change
Year 4
Core modules include:
Art studio
Dissertation (theatre)
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Many of our graduates develop successful careers as artists, writers and curators. These include a number of famous alumni, such as Turner Prize-nominated artists, and PhD students who are award-winning artists and curators at influential museums.
Others have found employment in galleries, education, art therapy, and film and video production. Recent employers include Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, Christies, Microsoft, the BBC, Victoria & Albert Museum, and Manolo Blahnik.
A number of our graduates continue their studies both with us and at other universities or go into teacher training.
Health Insurance_fee:£300/year
