Bachelor of Music Theatre

Module – Performance 1 & Acting Specialisation Module

Students develop acting skills through group instruction in masterclasses, workshops, seminars. Students experience the core principles and skills of contemporary acting technique(s) and position acting within a socio-cultural context, and reflect on their learning process as actors.

Introduction to Higher Education Studies

Introduces students to communication, academic integrity, presentation, and self-directed learning at a tertiary level, developing academic writing and spoken presentation skills including essay technique, referencing, and scholarly research practices.

Arts meets Commerce: an overview of the Arts and Entertainment Industry

Provides a broad and holistic overview of the Music Business, investigating numerous sectors of the business, exploring the history, function, role, and key activities of each, and forward focused analysis of music business trends.

Module – Performance 2 & Acting Specialisation Module 2

Extending from Performance Module 1, this unit allows students to further develop vocal performance skills, growing in technical and expressive fluency through both private instruction and a weekly Performance Practice class.

Performance Skills 1 – The Singing Actor 1

Provides opportunities for students to solidify their acting skills and vocal/singing technique through individual lessons, masterclasses, workshops and seminars, performing the core principles of contemporary acting and positioning their personalised acting within a socio-cultural context.

Dance 1 (Elective)

The first in a series of three dance units, providing opportunities for students to develop skills that engage dance as a tool of expression, increasing co-ordination and rhythm and developing impulse and spontaneity work, with student-led choreography stylistically specific to Music Theatre genres.

Collaboration Project 3 Industry Studies

An industry focussed collaborative project focusing on the collaborative process of formal rehearsals for a public season of a music theatre work under professional direction, offering students the opportunity to apply skills and techniques from specialisation units in a para-professional context.

Performance Skills 3 – The Singing Actor 3

Building upon BMTPS2, this unit provides opportunities for students to solidify their acting skills and vocal/singing technique through individual lessons, masterclasses, workshops, and seminars, performing the core principles of contemporary acting and positioning their personalised acting within a socio-cultural context.

Performance Skills 4 – The Singing Actor 4

Building upon BMTPS3, this unit provides opportunities for students to affirm their acting skills and vocal/singing technique through individual lessons, masterclasses, workshops, and seminars, performing specific principles of stylistic acting technique(s) and interrogating their personalised acting within a sociohistorical-cultural context.