BA (Hons) in Stage Management
Sidcup, United Kingdom
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
29 Jan 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 22,800 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* non-EU/non-EEA fee | £9535 EU/EEA fee
Introduction
This course is designed to develop the core skills you need and offer you the opportunity to individually tailor your modules within the broad spectrum of stage management.
What You'll Study
The theatre, events and performance industries are dynamic and ever-changing. We think that you are the strongest piece of technology or asset you can take forward in your career, so we focus on you – the individual.
Our established generalist course covers a full range of management skills needed in the stage and events industries. And we treat you as a young professional, part of a supportive community working towards common goals. There is scope throughout modules for you to choose the area of stage management you want to work or develop in. By placing you at the heart of the course, you can tailor the fine detail of what you study to your future direction.
Why choose this course?
- Expert training: Learn both on and off-campus from specialists and working professionals, tailoring your training and exploration to your area of interest in stage management
- Career-focused: Gain hands-on experience while sharpening your creativity and management skills by collaborating with students from other courses, delivering a diverse range of professional fully realised productions and events both in College and in London venues
- Learn from working professionals: Visiting professionals supervise productions or run masterclasses on specialist skills like Show Calling or Firearms. This has included Sam Hunter and Julia Whittle, from event/production company Orange Jackets (Olympic Ceremonies since 2004) and Stage & Screen Combat experts from RCAnnie
- Study abroad: The option to apply to study in the USA for a term during the second year
- Facilities and field trips: Fully equipped performance spaces on campus (The Barn, The Rose and Blackbox studios). You use real-world resources from pen/paper to power tools, show calling software and firearms. Backed up with off-campus visits to theatres and introductions to well-known prop or magic shops
- Professional experience: You will be encouraged and supported to gain as much professional experience as you can while training, either through short work placements or a longer work engagement that could count towards your degree
- Collaboration and wider knowledge: Shared learning and projects across the College develop relationships and your understanding of lighting, sound, set construction, costume and prop-making; marketing, admin and finance. Enhancing your ability to use experimentation and creative research in your work
Admissions
Curriculum
Course content is regularly reviewed to keep it relevant and current. Course modules are therefore subject to change.
Year 1
You will be introduced to the academic and intellectual skills that you will need for study and professional development.
- Management in Theory and Practice 1: Classes will introduce you to the roles and functions of management within the theatre, events and performance-related industries. Roles on College projects or productions will allow you to demonstrate your understanding of management and administration and will enable you to explore a range of models and put these into practice.
- Industry Study and Professional Preparation 1: In class, you will be introduced to the business environments, structures, models and hierarchies that exist within the theatre, events and performance-related industries. You are encouraged to see yourselves as small businesses, as sole traders. Using examples and case studies you will consider what this means in terms of marketing and professional responsibility.
- Practical Skills: In seminars, workshops, field trips and classes, you will be introduced to the core craft and practical skills required in a range of theatre, events and performance-related industries.
- The Practitioner in Context: The module lays the foundation for your studies throughout your programme. You will be introduced to learning, researching, analysing and investigation techniques. You will develop key skills that will enable you to become an increasingly independent learner and practice researcher.
Year 2
Your skills will be developed towards a level appropriate to preprofessional work and give experience in outside professional and community contexts. Module study options include, but are not limited to:
- Management in Theory and Practice 2: In class, you will investigate management theories, thinking, styles and techniques. You will study a range of conceptual models for various aspects of management, and consider how you can use these in your practice as it develops.
- Industry Study and Professional Preparation 2: In class, having considered possible goals and career paths in a range of fields, you will go on to further consider relevant business models and environments.
- Applied Technologies: In seminars, workshops, field trips and classes, you will be introduced to a broad range of technologies used in theatre, events and performance-related industries.
Year 3
You are expected to be a self-directed learner in year 3. Module study options include, but are not limited to:
- Management in Theory and Practice 3: Classes will enable you to develop your understanding of leadership and management. You will be briefed on College protocols and encouraged to consider these in terms of industry models and practices.
- Industry Study and Professional Preparation 3: With tutorial support, you will further consider business models and environments relevant to your chosen field or fields.
Career Opportunities
We aim to put you in front of and amongst the profession. This includes the opportunity to network and undertake a placement as well as introduce your work to the industry at our graduate exhibition in London.
Careers options
Studying an Arts related subject gives you a wide range of skills that can be put to use in many careers. Recent graduates have gone on to become:
- Stage and events managers
- Venue and site managers
- Exhibition, multimedia designers
- Production managers and directors in manufacturing
- Set designers
- Business and financial project managers
- Teaching assistants
- Photographers, audio-visual and broadcast equipment operators
- Arts officers, producers and directors
Program delivery
Teaching and assessment methods
In your first year, you will complete around 200 hours of indicative scheduled learning and teaching activities and 1000 hours of independent learning on projects, productions, placements or self-directed study. Assessment will be through Coursework, presentations, assessed tutorials and portfolios.
In your second year, you will complete around 90 hours of indicative scheduled learning and teaching activities and 1110 hours of independent learning on projects, productions, placements or self-directed study. Assessment will be through Coursework, presentations, assessed tutorials and portfolios.
In your third year, you will complete around 40 hours of indicative scheduled learning and teaching activities and 1160 hours of independent learning on projects, productions, placements or self-directed study. Assessment will be through Coursework, presentations, assessed tutorials and portfolios.