This unique degree introduces you to creative, practical, and managerial approaches to devising a range of exciting live events from street performances to product launches; from installations to community celebrations. The programme helps you to find ways of making extraordinary acts of imagination come to life.
During your degree you might project images onto architecture; transform vacant buildings into realms of the strange; make processions with giant puppets; create a personalised rite of passage; launch a ship. You learn and deploy many vocational approaches and skills, and develop team-working methods, problem-solving strategies, and great communication skills.
You will also come to understand what these spectacles and experiences contribute to our culture and our public life, you will investigate their contexts and effects.
We have a dedicated design, production and presentation facility in a large converted Victorian Galvanising Shop on the Chatham Historic Dockyard. It includes an equipped AV theatre, a state-of-the-art lighting rig, design software on new Intel iMacs and a construction/making space. We involve many professionals in delivering the course, ensuring that it is as current and relevant as possible.
Stage 1 entry: A/AS level 280 points (3.5 A level equivalents) including BC at A level, IB 31 points (14 at Higher), BTEC National Diploma (Distinction Merit Merit) in a roughly related subject (performance, media, business, art)
Stage 2 entry: successful completion of a Certificate, ie 120 units of Certificate level (Stage 1 level) learning, in a related area, subject to an interview
Required subjects
None, though we normally expect one arts subject in your profile
For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals.
A Progression Agreement is a formal arrangement between two or more
education providers. It spells out what a learner needs to do to be
considered for a place on a named programme of study. Progression Agreements
may vary in the conditions they specify but they all aim to give guaranteed
pathways into higher education.
Advice on courses and careers:-
The Creative Way IAG team provides a specialist service for everyone
interested in finding out about courses and careers in the creative and
cultural industries. We can provide information direct to Students,
Parents/ Carers, Tutors and Careers Advisers via email, phone or organised
workshops and 1 to 1 sessions.
To find out more, visit our IAG page on this site on
http://www.creativeway.org.uk/en/About-us/Resources/Careers-advice/ Or contact one of our career advisers: Matt Ball 07889 001764
m.ball@uel.ac.uk or Sarah
Comerford 07515 051509
s.comerford@uel.ac.uk