Theatre and Drama Studies

Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

Theatre & Drama Studies students performing
Theatre & Drama Studies students performing
Type of Programme
Full-time
Number of Places
20
Duration
4 Years
Course Code
MT 939
Entry Requirements
#355 CAO Points in 2023 and meet minimum entry requirements as listed below.
Application Deadline
See CAO for details
Location(s)
MTU Cork School of Music, Cork
Course NFQ Level
Level 8

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Overview

Theatre and Drama Studies is a practice-based course for those intending to pursue a career in theatre or dramatic arts. Individual acting skills, voice production, ensemble performance and related theatre design and technical audio visual studies equip the student to work in live theatre, broadcast media or community-based arts facilitation.

This honours degree course centres on theatre performance training, with supporting modules to facilitate wider career options. The course aims to produce artists that are physically and vocally flexible and intellectually alive and curious.

Alongside core disciplines of voice, movement and acting studies, you will develop a range of creative and practical techniques and transferable skills that will encourage you to be an independent thinking and motivated artist, an articulate and reflective practitioner equipped to succeed in a competitive profession. Small group and large ensemble practical and workshop sessions are balanced with lectures, tutorials and field-based studies.

In the second semester of year 3, each student will have a supervised work placement in an appropriate professional environment. The work placement is done as a complete module with 84 hours work contact to be done in a minimum of 8 weeks.

Capstone Module: In the fourth and final year, each student works on an integrated production. As the emphasis throughout the course is on performance, this allows an involvement at a professional level as a theatre practitioner as the culmination of the four years work.

What will I study?

First year at a glance

  • Performance Ensemble: performance studies focusing on the work of Stanislavski and Chekhov
  • Voice Studies: freeing and strengthening the speaking voice and working with texts
  • Theatre History and Text: theatre history from the age of Greek theatre to that of Shakespeare
  • Theatre Lab: movement and performance, focusing on improvisation and the work of Le Coq
  • Theatre Technology: an introduction to theatre lighting and sound
  • Costume and Make-up: costume study and make-up design

Modules

What is a Module?

A module is a standalone unit of learning and assessment and is completed within one semester. A full-time student will normally study six modules in each semester; part-time and ACCS (Accumulation of Credits and Certification of Subjects) students will have flexibility as to the number of modules taken.

The button below provides a link to all of the University's approved modules for this programme.

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Entry Requirements

Entry 2024

For admission to a programme, standard applicants must

  • score the necessary CAO points and
  • meet the minimum entry requirements

Leaving Certificate in six subjects i.e. H5 in two subjects and O6/H7 in four other subjects. The six subjects must include either English or Irish grade O6/H7. Mathematics see Note 1.

Assessment Test Is Required

For details, visit https://csm.mtu.ie/batds

Offers are made based on the assessment test results to applicants who meet the academic minimum entry requirements as outlined above. 

NOTE 1: There is no specific requirement for Maths. A grade F2 or higher in foundation level Maths is recognised as one of the subjects for entry.

NOTE 2: Vetting by an Garda Síochána is a mandatory requirement for this programme.

 

For Non-EU International Entry Requirements please visit https://www.mtu.ie/international/non-eu/.

Career options

Employment Opportunities

Graduates will have the ability to pursue careers in the performing arts, education, arts administration, community arts, film and television media.

  • Careers: actor; director; producer; theatre designer; theatre technician; drama teaching; community arts; theatre in education; arts administration; and film and television.

Progression

Further Studies

Graduates will be able to pursue any level 9 course for which a drama degree is relevant and recognised – including postgraduate education programmes. Postgraduate study in education, drama therapy and arts administration are examples of what are possible pathways.

For details, see https://csm.mtu.ie/batds

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Question Time

Graduates may apply for the Professional Master of Education courses that lead to certification as primary or second-level teachers. They may also apply for further education or third-level positions that require a level-8 drama qualification.

Yes, the assessment test will provisionally take place at the MTU Cork School of Music on Saturday 11th March 2023.

No. There is no written work required for the entrance assessment.

Yes, in Year 3, students may avail of the Erasmus Scheme to study abroad in a partner institution.

Yes, but only if you have applied through CAO before the 1st February and have been auditioned and assessed for the course.

Candidates are not allowed to defer the results of the assessment test.

An entrance scholarship of €1,000 will be awarded to a first year BATDS entrant based on their assessment test.

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