Education Secondary and Drama BA (Hons) + PGCE
Bath Spa University
Key Information
Campus location
Bath, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
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Full time
Tuition fees
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Introduction
Education Secondary and Drama BA (Hons) + PGCE
Education Secondary
You'll explore education from many theoretical and ideological perspectives in your core modules. This in-depth knowledge of the education industry, combined with your specialist subject knowledge, gives you that all-important edge when you embark on your professional education career.
Drama
You’ll study plays, practitioners and genres that have been particularly influential in shaping contemporary theatre and performance. We give you the opportunity to explore:
- Theatre practitioners
- Playwrights
- Performance making
- Writing, directing and performing.
The course also includes a focus on:
- Plays and musical theatre productions in the University Theatre
- Theatre in education performances and workshops in local schools
- New plays written by students
- New and existing works devised, directed and performed by students.
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Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Education Secondary
Year one (Level 4) modules
- Education for Change
- Introduction to Secondary Schools
- Changing Schooling
Year two (Level 5) modules
- Issues in Education
- Professional Practice in Secondary Schools
- Understanding Classrooms
- Professional Placement Year
Year three (Level 6) modules
- Teaching and Professionalism in the Secondary School
- Education Secondary Research Project part 1
An optional module which may include:
- Education Secondary Dissertation Project Part 2
- Social and Educational Inclusion
Please note, not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year.
Drama
Year one (Level 4) modules
- Investigating Theatre and Performance
- Contemporary Theatre
- Building the Ensemble
- Theatre Project
- Introduction to Theatre Production
- Performance Practices
Year two (Level 5) modules
- Making Performance 1
- Acting and Directing
- Applied Theatre
- Creative Production Skills
- Writing for Performance 1
- Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
- Musical Theatre Workshop
- Performance Explorations
- Making Performance 2
- Performance and Media 1
- Writing for Performance 2
- Musical Theatre Workshop 2
- Professional Placement Year
Year three (Level 6) modules
- Theatre and Social Engagement
- Staging Gender
- Performance Project
- Performance Research Lab
- Staging Shakespeare
- Drama Independent Study
- Musical Theatre Project
- Musicals as Popular Culture
- Writing and Directing for Performance 1
- Writing and Directing for Performance 2
- Podcasting
- Creative Enterprise Project 1
- Creative Enterprise Project 2
Program Outcome
Program Intended Learning Outcomes
Education Secondary
- The ability to demonstrate through sustained argument a systematic understanding and coherent, detailed knowledge of the wider social, cultural, historical, political and economic contexts of secondary education and schooling.
- The ability to demonstrate though sustained argument a systematic understanding and detailed knowledge of the nature, purposes and development of education policy in the UK and internationally with particular reference to secondary education.
- The ability to demonstrate through sustained argument, a systematic understanding and coherent, detailed knowledge of the development of education practices in a range of school contexts and how these relate to secondary teachers and learners.
- The critical understanding and ability to deploy accurately established techniques of analysis in educational research with specific reference to secondary education.
- The ability to take a justified and critical position that acknowledges different perspectives on the main methods of educational enquiry; to understand the limits of knowledge and the impact on analysis, in the context of secondary education.
Drama
- Systematic understanding of a wide range of modern and contemporary drama, theatre and performance genres, forms and practices and their production and reception.
- Collaborative skills relating to the ability to operate safely, ethically and creatively within a wide range of performance contexts including interdisciplinary contexts.
- The synthesis of research, disciplinespecific knowledge and artistic skills in performance projects and/or community ventures.
- The ability to critically evaluate performance practices, theories, ideas and cultural frameworks.
- Creative engagement with the interplay between theory and practice when analysing and making drama.
- Performance strategies and skills in individual and/or collaborative theatre practice.
- An ability to define and realise research projects making use of scholarly and/or subject specific research methodologies and forms of dissemination.
Program Tuition Fee
English Language Requirements
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