Reach your potential on this conservatoire-style course designed to build your creative skills including live performance, screen acting and motion capture.
Grow into a confident and versatile performer. Focus on fundamental acting skills, voice and movement, screen acting, and how to rehearse for a full production.
Work with external directors, experiment with Physical Theatre, learn about new performance technologies, and extend your experience with screen acting and classical text.
In your final year, our Immersive Performance module and Showcase will allow you to demonstrate your high-level skills in acting.
Study at an award-winning university
We were named Times Higher Education University of the Year 2023. We've also been awarded a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework – a reflection of the outstanding education we offer our students.
We've done different shows with different instructors, and they all have different methods to how they direct. I think that's invaluable.
Throughout your degree, you’ll develop creativity and technical competence in a range of acting media, including both live and recorded performance.
You’ll develop transferable skills such as research, teamwork, communication, problem solving, and resourcefulness – invaluable in all areas of the creative industries as well as other sectors.
You’ll also have opportunities to take part in collaborative projects, like our HMS Belfast project with Imperial War Museums to commemorate D-Day, and 60 Second Shakespeare with the Globe theatre, London.
There are many different ways of using acting skills in a whole variety of media. So our aim is to prepare students for that multi-platform world.
In your first year, you’ll be introduced to effective working methodologies in both performance and production, producing a studio-based collaborative live performance, developing core physical and vocal skills and being introduced to acting for the camera.
In your second year, you’ll work with a professional theatre director as a member of a production company, creating a theatre piece for live performance.
Finally, our Immersive Performance module, Showcase and Major Project will allow you to demonstrate your high-level skills in acting and focus specifically on your employability.
Modules are subject to change and availability, and may vary by location. If you have the choice of optional modules, these are indicated with a *.
To prepare you for university study, you can take a foundation year at the start of this course. Find out more about foundation years.
You can choose to take an optional placement year as part of this course. Placements typically happen in Year 3, and your course will take four years overall. Find out more about placement years.
Read profiles of teaching and research staff on this course.
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As part of your studies at ARU, you’ll have access to all of our creative industries facilities including:
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