Bachelor of Art (Hons) in Musical Theatre

at Falmouth University - Penryn Campus United Kingdom

While nurturing your talent for spotting opportunities and solving problems, you’ll be taught some of the most progressive methods in business by experienced professionals from diverse backgrounds.

With an outstanding curriculum, a high-profile Guest Speaker Programme and links to big industry names, you’ll not only leave ready to develop your ideas and lead a team, but you’ll have built a strong entrepreneurial network to help back your business. That’s why we’re the top UK university for graduate business leaders.

You will:

• Develop an understanding of the practice and theory of Entrepreneurship, contextualised via various theoretical lenses and practical experience 
• Galvanise your team working skills, and understand what it takes to build a world-class founding team 
• Learn about the various areas of business, such as finance, marketing, innovation, lean product development, strategy, project management, and see how they connect 
• Understand the process of developing a start-up business from inception through to investment 

Throughout your studies we'll help you understand key business and marketing theories. From developing complex problem-solving skills to navigating consumer psychology, digging deep into big data to understand the ethics of your practice, you'll learn to harness creativity, cultural awareness and business acumen to deliver impactful marketing strategies across a range of digital platforms.

You will:

• Be an active part of Gallos, our thriving student-led agency
• Work on live briefs, building your industry network
• Collaborate with digital innovators across the region, including company founders in our award- winning Launchpad programme
• Work with industry connected and research active staff

Business & Digital Marketing BSc(Hons) is accredited by the leading professional marketing body, The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). This means students who successfully complete the full undergraduate degree are part-accredited for qualifications CIM offers professional marketing practitioners.

Find your passion and pursue it. Investigate, experiment and specialise in all forms and industries including poetry, literature, children's fiction, non-fiction, screenwriting and digital games. You'll gain practical experience with our partners in publishing, literary festivals and professional writing, learning valued critical and technical skills.

You will:

• Design and run a student-led collaborative project as part of your third year. Previous projects have included producing illustrated anthologies, sitcoms and podcasts while working in collaboration with schools, charities and businesses
• Attend our guest lecture series, where you'll build relationships and contacts within all facets of the literary world.
• Participate in literary events, such as The London Book Fair and the North Cornwall Book Festival.
• Take inspiration from The Lighthouse (pictured above) – the glorious workspace at the heart of our community – which hosts everything from skills and craft workshops to board game sessions, literary quizzes and poetry readings
• Contribute your own work to Falwriting: our student-led online magazine
• Use our state-of-the-art Soundhouse and edit suites to record audience-ready productions.

This dynamic MA will help you build the craft and critical skills to place your work in line with current industry trends. You'll engage in practical projects mirroring professional workflows and creative environments. To develop an up-to-date, original practice, you'll also study the cultural contexts of global film and television markets.

The School of Film & Television is a member of CILECT, the global association of the world's best film, television and animation schools.

You will:

• Learn from our award-winning staff and interact with high-profile film and television professionals, who regularly lead our master classes
• Become part of our School of Film & Television, a member of CILECT— the global association of the world's best film and TV schools, and establish a socially sensitive practice that fits into global networks of production
• Build craft and critical skills to situate your work against current industry trends by taking part in production and research that mirror real-world practices
• Become involved in our unique in-house slate of micro-budget short and feature filmmaking and graduate from a ScreenSkills-accredited course
• Work on extra-curricular live briefs and get involved with our own creative agency, MAYN

Studying in Cornwall, home to several of the UK’s most exciting festivals, you’ll get hands-on industry experience, both here and further afield. Alongside tuition from experienced professionals, you’ll benefit from the expertise within our School of Entrepreneurship – including finance, marketing and project management. 

You will:

• Develop a sustainable approach to management in the globally expanding festival industry. 
• Study on one of the first courses in the world accredited by A Greener Festival.
• Organise live events and engage with industry experts. 
• Be industry-ready with a full degree in just two years. 
• Benefit from the expertise and knowledge of specialist staff with music, events, hospitality, technical and entrepreneurial backgrounds. 
• Undertake multiple micro-placements, at the Eden Sessions and other locations.
• Be part of a course in the hospitality, event management and tourism sector where
  Falmouth holds a top ten ranking in the Guardian University Guide 2021.

You'll be taught by experts from the Games Academy and the School of Entrepreneurship, to help you become a daring computer scientist capable of leveraging scientific principles and cutting-edge technology to create new and compelling products and services.

You will:

• Get practical hands-on experience, doing a lot of computer programming and software engineering to build your own software
• Work on complex real-world problems set in partnership with industry and explore a range of market-led incubation opportunities identified by our RealWORKS employability team
• Advance your knowledge of computer science and computing technologies in a way that enables you to incorporate cutting-edge advances into the digital products and services you create
• Leverage user-centred design thinking in your system development lifecycles, taking advantage of our research strengths in this area
• Collaborate in multidisciplinary agile teams that span the Games Academy and the School of Entrepreneurship to realise projects with real commercial potential using approaches that mirror industry

You'll benefit from the collaborative environment at AMATA, where you'll have the opportunity to work with students from multiple disciplines and gain access to world-class dance studios, as well as practice and performance spaces.

You will:

• Develop your physical and technical skills, as well as performance and choreographic capabilities, while engaging with dance histories, theories and contexts
• Build industry links through workshops, guest lectures and visits from celebrated international practitioners such as Company Chameleon, Ballet Lorent and Siobhan Davies
• Benefit from AMATA's year-round performance programme, which attracts top artists and performers from all over the world
• Learn to utilise our extensive range of technical sound, lighting and recording equipment, to enable and realise your production ideas and visions

You'll learn how to create dynamic photography and moving image using alternative new media digital processes. You'll also have access to some of the most innovative equipment, including eight industry-sized studios, dark rooms, post- production suites and an incredibly well- equipped photography resource centre.

You will:

• Showcase your work to industry-leading clients.
• Attend guest lectures and have access to world-leading practitioners such as Shonagh Marshall, Matthew Holroyd, Joseph Delaney, Ewen Spencer and Derek Ridgers.
• Have the opportunity to work with leading names in fashion like Baron, Element, Nowness, River Island and SHOWstudio.
• Pitch your projects to industry experts and work on live briefs set by international partners.
• Have access to some of the UK's leading photographic facilities, studios and workspaces.
• Learn from a renowned course team, who are internationally published with publications that include; The Face, iD, Arena, Beauty Papers, Re-Edition and Vogue Homme.

Our course has an uncompromising emphasis on learning by doing. And it works. Our alumni network is one of the most successful in the world. You'll find Falmouth folk working in renowned ad agencies including Ogilvy, Wieden+Kennedy, Iris Worldwide, DDB, McCann, Havas and many more.

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