Final Year Performance Festival (Q3330)
60 credits, Level 6
Autumn and spring teaching
On this module, you’ll develop a research-led approach to making collaborative performance. You’ll also learn how to prepare for and realise a festival of work.
You’ll engage with how to use performance to ask social, aesthetic and political themes. You’ll take ownership for your own critical-reflective research process and managing your project. Under faculty supervision, you’ll develop and present a final performance at the Drama festival at the end of the academic year.
Key skills you’ll gain include:
- developing a practical research process
- collaborative practical work
- managing projects
- documenting and reflecting on working processes
- performing your work in the festival.
Contact hours and workload
This module is approximately 600 hours of work. This breaks down into about 110 hours of contact time and about 490 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.
We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.
We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.
Courses
This module is offered on the following courses: