Modules

This hybrid course is designed to take place in person and online. As a cohort, you will have four intensive in-person residencies together, three in the UK and one normally one abroad. Seminars, discussions, tutorials and mentorship will be delivered online, weekly throughout term time. As such, students can live anywhere globally, but are required to travel to be in attendance for the residencies. You can study this course full time (over 15 months) or part time (over 28 months). Accessibility and learning styles: The course is designed with accessibility considerations across all aspects, although we will always strive to improve and collaborate on improving our access provisions. All written assessments have optionality for alternative spoken/performed components. Module 1: Thinking Queerly Residential: The programme begins with a 14-day London-based residential intensive in September including taught sessions, artist-led practical workshops, sharing and discussion of where we have all come from, our current positions and future aspirations, and to set our pathways for evolving ideas together. This module will examine how performance art, drag, theatre, street performance and cabaret has played a central role in the development of trans, lesbian, bisexual and gay lives in various global cultures. And in turn, how major historical moments for LGTBQI+ communities and queer critical theory has influenced the development of performance strategies. We will use interdisciplinary perspectives to draw connections between artists, historical events, queer social life and theory. Students will be encouraged to question dominant narratives and methodologies of theatre and performance, and think about who has been absent or forgotten in established archives, histories and stages. Module 2: Creatures of the Night Residential: This module will also be introduced in the 14-day London-based September intensive through practical workshops, shared trips and seminar discussions. Subsequently, you will be encouraged to research, watch and share queer cabaret, drag, durational, one-to-one, music-based, digital, dance and other experimental nightlife performance in your own local contexts or through digital practice. Via professional mentorship, classes and peer support you will develop performance works for a public festival held in the UK at the end of the module. Module 3: Queer Dramaturgies Residential: This module includes one normally international residency between 7-10 days with leading queer performance practitioners. Intensive practice-based research in making/devising critical and creative performance work in collaboration with each other. Including options for creative writing, video, sound, design and digital performance. Each group will be mentored by a leading queer performance practitioner. Module 4: Independent Research Project Each student can choose to do a supervised dissertation project: Written, performed or curatorial/produced project. These will be performed or presented in London during our final residency. *Course modules are currently subject to validation and may be modified.

Qualified teacher status (QTS)

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS