Performing Arts & Music

FdA Performance and Events Production

  • UCAS code: W490 FdA/PEP
  • Length: 2 years

2012 entry

 

Looking to build a career in the performance and events production industry? Look no further. We give you an excellent grounding and practical education in creating, facilitating and presenting performance and entertainment events. You undertake experience with professional groups, tour the region’s venues and train to work in a range of performance, educational and community contexts.

We prepare you to create, perform and manage a wide range of live arts events. You undertake administrative, technical and performance activities, giving you the chance to choose areas of interest in dance, drama and music. You also explore the use of new technologies.

This is an award of Teesside University delivered in partnership with Middlesbrough College (campus code 2).

How you learn

You study performance and events production in a range of ways - lectures, seminars, tutorials (individual and group) but mainly through practice and work-related learning. Progress tutorials help you discover and develop your personal aptitude.

How you are assessed

You are also assessed in a variety of ways. Performances might be drawn from existing material or be shows that you devise, but you also write essays and reports and construct portfolios of evidence.

Career opportunities

Graduates work in the performing arts and entertainment industries, education and the media. Successful completion of this course guarantees entry onto a progression route at honours degree level.

Entry requirements

A typical offer is 80-100 tariff points. The entry criteria are based on your ability to succeed and can be demonstrated in a variety of ways including:

  • a range of Level 3 qualifications (NVQ 3, BTEC Award, A level)
  • appropriate training through work.

You also need to do a satisfactory audition.

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Modules

Performance and Events Production

Year 1 core modules

Year 2 core modules

Modules offered may vary.