Theatre and Performance Studies and Global Sustainable Development (BASc)

University of Warwick

United Kingdom, Coventry

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University of Warwick

United Kingdom , Coventry

Key Facts

Program Level

Bachelor

Study Type

Full Time

Delivery

On Campus

Course Code

W4L8

Campuses

University of Warwick

Program Language

English

Start & Deadlines

Next Intake Deadlines25-Sep-2023

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Duration 4 year(s)

Tuition Fee

GBP 29,830 / year

Next Intake 25-Sep-2023

Theatre and Performance Studies and Global Sustainable Development (BASc)

About

Course overview

Theatre has the power to question and challenge ideas and beliefs. It helps people consider the way they live their lives and how their actions affect others. It brings into sharp focus our impact upon the world and how we might effect changes for the better. On this course you will explore the radical and revolutionary artistic power of theatre and entertainment, linking this to todays global challenges.

Warwick's vibrant student drama scene also gives you opportunities to get involved with many kinds of production through our theatre student societies, with projects at Warwick Arts Centre (a core partner of the Theatre and Performance Studies Department), the National Student Drama Festival, and the Edinburgh Festival.

By studying GSD, you will take a transdisciplinary approach and confront issues from a diverse array of perspectives. You will need to be ready to think creatively and embrace new opinions from your peers from across the world. We will challenge you to become an active participant in your own learning.

You can enhance your skills and studies through optional work placements, study abroad, and certificates.

Study abroad

Although it is not compulsory, we encourage you to study abroad during your degree.

Option 1: Part of your second year abroad

Spend part of your second year at Monash University, home to the Monash Sustainable Development Institute. You will learn to appreciate the different concerns and priorities for sustainable development, including different approaches to tackling global issues.

Your academic achievements abroad will count towards your degree awarded by Warwick.

Find out more about studying abroad for part of your second year.

Option 2: Year abroad

You may choose to apply for an intercalated year spent either studying abroad or on a work placement (subject to you meeting departmental academic requirements). This will mean extending your course to four years.

Warwick has partnerships with universities across the world. You will spend your first and second years at Warwick, studying abroad in your third year before returning for final year.

Your year abroad will not count towards your overall final mark, giving you the freedom to choose modules outside of your comfort zone.

Learn more about spending a year abroad.Link opens in a new window

Teaching

In the GSD Department you will be taught by a range of academics from different disciplines. They will communicate their expertise on a specific issue and describe their methodology for addressing it. We expect you to bring together these various approaches and to develop your own informed stance on each issue.

Throughout the course you will:

Attend lectures and take part in seminars, workshops and tutorials.
Work with other students in teams on topical problems that pose significant sustainable development questions.
Undertake fieldwork, archival research and engage in peer discussion to propose alternative solutions.
Review the work of other students.

Discover how you will learn in GSD modules

Teaching in the Theatre and Performance Studies Department is delivered via studio-based explorations, small-group seminars and interactive lectures.

Class sizes

Seminar groups in GSD comprise of around 20 students.

Typical contact hours

First-year core GSD modules have between 20 and 25 hours of contact time. Each module consists of lectures, workshops and, for the 'Global Sustainable Development Project' module, group supervision sessions. Second-year optional core GSD modules have up to 45 and 50 contact hours. The final-year core GSD dissertation module currently involves eight lectures and eight supervision sessions across three terms.

Optional modules in the GSD Department are available with between 25 and 50 hours for scheduled contact time, depending on the module. Some modules have lectures, workshops, film screenings and research supervision, whereas others only have lectures and workshops. Some modules may also include field trips.

Module offerings in other departments may involve more or less formal teaching time per week than the GSD modules.

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Warwick IFPLink opens in a new window: Complete the Certificate of General Secondary Education (Thanawiya) with a final score of 80% overall in the final year

Undergraduate: Warwick IFP required. Alternatively IB, A-Levels, APs/SAT IIs will be considered.

English Program Requirements

If your first language is not English you must obtain or provide evidence of your proficiency in English. This is usually evidenced through one of the following tests:

IELTS (International English Language Testing System) of at least 6.5
TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) of at least 92 (internet-based iBT only)
PTE (Pearson English Academic) of at least 62
CAE (Cambridge Advanced English) with an overall score of at least 60 (or pass at grade C)
CPE (Cambridge Proficiency English) with any Pass grade

These are the minimum overall scores. There are also requirements for each component. Please see the Language Requirements webpage for more details.

PLEASE NOTE: Some departments may ask for higher scores in the above tests if this is important for successful study on the course concerned. Please refer to the English Language Information and Entry Requirements for specific scores (as well as component scores) required for the course you are applying for.

If you do not achieve the required score please send in your certificate anyway. In such cases the University may recommend that you re-take the test or that you attend pre-sessional English courses provided by the University.

Acceptable format of an English language certificate: If you have taken an IELTS or TOEFL test we are able to accept a scanned copy of your Test Report as we can verify your scores online. If you have taken a PTE test then you must ask the test provider to make The University of Warwick a recipient of your test report. This is the only way we can accept your results. You should consider including UK Border Agency as a recipient as well if you will need to apply for a Student Visa. If you have taken a CAE or CPE test, please write your Candidate I.D. Number and Secret Number (both can be obtained from your test provider) on your Test Report and send us a scanned copy of your Test Report to enable us to verify your scores online.

You must have taken any language test within 2 years of the start date of the course for which you are applying or it will not be accepted.

If you have been educated entirely in English for at least one year within the two years immediately preceding the course start date, then you may provide written evidence of this with your application in the place of an English Language certificate. Some departments may still require an English language certificate in addition to this.

If you have already taken one of the tests above but are intending to take another test to improve your score, please mention this in the Test Score obtained field. i.e. 6.5 re-test booked 01/03/12

Career

Placements and work experience

We encourage you to undertake a work placement as part of your degree.

You will have the opportunity to take part in short and long work placements. These support you in developing your employability skills and prepare you for future employment.

Apply theory to practice
Explore a future career path
Learn about the professional environment
Learn from industry professionals

We will also support you in sourcing your own work placements outside of the options below.

Year-long work placement

You can complete a four-year degree and your work placement will take place in your third year. The work placement can take place inside or outside the UK.

Short work placement

As part of the Certificate of Professional Communication, you will undertake a four-week work placement during the summer.

Your career

As a GSD graduate, you have a wide range of career pathways available to you. This is demonstrated by the variety of work placements that our students have completed.

GSD students have secured work placements with employers from the private, public, and third sectors. These include:

Research institutions
Governmental bodies
Non-governmental organisations
Intelligence agencies
Housing
Environmental consultancies

They have undertaken diverse roles such as:

Marketing Assistant
Sustainability Officer
Intelligence Analyst
Researchers

Transferable skills

You will learn valuable transferable skills that will help you with your employment prospects, including:

Analysing and problem solving: Through your study of economic principles and models, you will learn how to extract the essential features of complex systems, providing useable frameworks for evaluation
Critical thinking: You will assess arguments, make judgements, formulate reasoned debates and generate feasible solutions
Communication: You will develop advanced communication skills that enable you to communicate with a variety of audiences and in different settings
Research: You will undertake an integrated programme of research skills training, teaching you how to source, evaluate and use different forms of information and data
Organisation: Through a rigorous assessment schedule and a compulsory dissertation module in your final year, you will learn the essentials of time management, prioritisation and how to be well organised
Collaboration: You will have plenty of opportunities to work with others and nurture your emotional intelligence, developing a professional attitude

Helping you find the right career

We have a dedicated Employability and Placement Manager who will provide you with one-to-one careers guidance. They work in collaboration with employers, so you will be supported in securing appropriate work placements. You will have access to specialist pre-placement advice, guidance and preparation, as well as on-going support during your placement.

You will also have access to the Universitys Student Opportunity resources (including careers counselling, employment advice, and job fairs).

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Fee Information

Tuition Fee

GBP 29,830 / year

How to Apply

How to apply to Warwick

You can apply for undergraduate courses through Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).

Our institution code is W20.

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We strongly suggest that you complete your application before the UCAS deadline on 25th January 2023. However, some courses may still consider applications after this date. To find out whether a course is still open for applications you can use the UCAS Search Tool.Link opens in a new window

See key dates for a full timeline.

FAQs about applying

What are you looking for in an application?

Warwick offers intensive, challenging and stimulating undergraduate degrees and our successful applicants will be those who can convince us that their qualifications, motivation and experience will suit them well for such degree courses.

You should be able to demonstrate how your previous study and experiences have given you a keen interest in the subject to which you have applied.

There isn't a right or a wrong way to write your application, but there are a number of things that you should consider to make your application stand out from the crowd. Knowing what the assessors look for is the key to catching their eye.

Selectors will take into account a number of different factors when assessing your application:

Your academic profile (qualifications and predicted A-level grades) and any other entry requirements
Your personal statement
Your academic reference

You can help to make your academic reference relevant by making sure that the person who will be writing your reference knows why you want to study the subject you have chosen to apply for.

You can also make your application stand out from the crowd by paying careful attention to what you put into and how you write your personal statement.

How important is my personal statement?

Our courses are very competitive, with often many more applicants predicted to meet the entry requirements than we are able to offer places to. Where this occurs, the personal statement is important to enable us to select potential students for the course. It is considered very carefully by our staff, and is especially important to us when we are making decisions about who to make offers to.

You should spend some time working on your personal statement before you apply. This is your chance to show why you want to study your chosen course at Warwick, and why you would be a good participant on the course.

How to write a great personal statement

How will you assess my application?

Your application is assessed by academic Admissions Tutors in departments, and professional Admissions Tutors in the Undergraduate Admissions Team.

We ensure that decisions are made as fairly as possible, and we take as much information about you as we can into account, judging it against the course criteria:

Existing academic achievements and the context within which they have been achieved (including any exceptional circumstances)
Predicted grades
Your personal statement
Your academic reference
Finally, we also assess your application in competition with others

Remember that selectors want to hear about you and your interests and potential – there is no one-size-fits-all approach!

As a consequence of the high level of competition for our courses, and because we want to consider your full profile and your potential as an individual rather than simply looking at your actual or predicted grades, it may also take some time to communicate a decision to you.

You can check for updates to your application through UCAS.

You should be aware that decisions are made on a highly competitive basis and therefore we are often unable to make offers to all applicants who meet, or even exceed, the typical entry requirements.

What happens after I have applied?

After you have applied to Warwick

When will I hear back about my application?

See when you will hear back after you have applied to Warwick.

FAQs about choosing a course

Single or joint honours?

You will need to consider whether you wish to study for a single or joint honours degree. Joint honours degrees allow you to broaden your education as well as increasing your skills, showing that you are a flexible thinker and can work across different subject areas. Warwick offers a variety of joint honours degrees from Physics with Business Studies to History and Sociology.

If you want to combine two or more subjects in your degree, you should consider how much of each subject you would like to study. You might choose to study two subjects in equal amounts, or you could study one subject but add a second subject as a smaller element of the course. For example, German and Business Studies would involve roughly equal amounts of study of each subject, while German with Film Studies would see you studying both subjects but spending more time studying German than Film Studies.

Several degrees are interdisciplinary, for example PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) and MORSE (Maths, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics). The strongest applicants for these degrees are able to demonstrate an interest in all aspects of the course, and to appreciate the links between them.

How long will the course last?

You should think about the length of course you would like to study. Many departments at Warwick offer undergraduate Masters degrees (4 year courses) and there is the choice with some degrees of having a year in industry (an intercalated year) or spending a year overseas.

Which course will help you achieve your career goals?

Many professions do not require you to have a degree in a particular subject. However, if you have a particular career goal in mind you should find out whether your chosen course carries professional accreditation. This means that you may be exempt from elements of professional examinations if you choose to pursue a professional qualification as a graduate. For example, students taking our Accounting and Finance degree may choose modules which lead to professional stage exemptions from the examinations of major accountancy bodies.