Our Courses

OUR COURSES

BA Adventure Filmmaking

BA Acting

BA Applied Drama: Education, Wellbeing, Community

BA Set Design & Production

MA Theatre Directing

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BA ADVENTURE FILMMAKING

The Adventure Filmmaking programme is unique in the UK, utilising the landscapes of West Wales, and the wide range of outdoor pursuits that take place in the region. This exciting new industry brings together the skills of outdoors adventure activities, media production, storytelling, and creative commercial work. There are fantastic opportunities to capture footage of extreme sports, sea life and wildlife, coastal and mountainous terrains, with input throughout the degree from professionals working in these fields.

Engagement with industry is embedded in all aspects of our programme. This can take the form of work placements, projects for external clients, working on film projects, or engaging with the many professionals from industry who will be offering their expertise in the delivery of the programmes. This programme is designed to give students the specialised and vocational skills required to work in this dynamic area of the film and photographic industries. Our production classes are based in a purpose designed suite and studio spaces with views over the beautiful surrounding countryside. We start our adventure activities at the University’s Cynefin activity centre, which includes kits stores, bouldering wall, a pump track, and drone flying zone. BA Adventure Filmmaking utilises the landscapes of West Wales and the wide range of outdoor pursuits that take place in the region.

With the new headquarters of S4C (Canolfan S4C Yr Egin), the Welsh broadcasting company, as well as independent production companies, next door to our building, it offers a range of media facilities through placement and networking opportunities for our students. The input from media professionals associated with the centre has been really important to us, in ensuring that our degrees offer exactly what the contemporary industry requires from graduates. Students will be introduced to the core production and postproduction skills required to produce adventure-based film and media content.

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BA ACTING

Our BA Acting degree in Carmarthen is an industry focused practical course that educates and trains students to enter the creative industries as an actor or creative practitioner. Our students will develop advanced skills and techniques in a challenging, supportive and collaborative environment.

The course reflects the diverse needs of the professional practitioner working in the creative industries today and our students experience ‘real world’ rehearsal processes whilst working with industry professionals from many different disciplines. Through this training, students will create invaluable network links which will provide a gateway into the performance industry upon graduation.

Live performance projects and working with professional directors and facilitators is at the heart of our course. Students have access to rehearsal rooms and performance facilities and are encouraged to collaborate on independent projects alongside their studies. These collaborative projects enhance our focus on creating a creative community on our Carmarthen campus which develops the student’s confidence and entrepreneurial skills.

Our students work with a diverse range of companies upon graduation and cover many areas of the creative industries such as Theatre, TV and Film as well as producing and directing. Our graduates also engage with community arts projects and the arts sector of education.

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BA APPLIED DRAMA:

EDUCATION, WELLBEING, COMMUNITY

Our BA Applied Drama: Education, Community, Wellbeing degree programme offers a dynamic pathway to working creatively using drama and theatre in wellbeing, education and community settings and spaces. Applied Drama is fast becoming a more well-known area of practice and study where we explore the role of drama and theatre in alternative spaces with the overarching aim of being beneficial to all those who take part. Applied Drama is about positive social and personal change, and our students are not only passionate about the performing arts but are also passionate about people and having a positive impact in an ever-changing world. Applied Drama can happen in a variety of places, from residential homes to schools, from prisons to PRUs, from hostels to hospitals. Our BA in Applied Drama offers students an alternative approach to a wide and varied career in the performing arts.

BA Applied Drama at UWTSD reflects the need for creative connection in our lives and for creativity and expression in our communities. We draw inspiration from working with innovative national and local theatre companies, charities and specialist facilitators to explore the stories and voices that need to be heard, encourage creative expression and provide a dynamic space for social change and engagement. Whilst also exploring the impact of applied drama practices internationally, we consider the role of drama and theatre in social change, identity, globalisation and activism.

As a student you will develop your drama skills alongside facilitation practice to bring exciting projects to life in a process of cocreation with the groups and communities you are working with. You will work with like-minded students to make challenging, honest and inclusive theatre that aims to create change; from drama for wellbeing projects to participatory theatre, you will develop real skills in collaboration, project development, communication, and meaningful creative practice. Our campus base provides access to the spaces we need to not only develop and rehearse our workshops and performances, but also to connect with our community of like-minded creative students. Together we innovate and develop new projects based on real life briefs through creative workshops, digital media and a range of performance styles.

Our graduates have gone onto to work within a range of arts organisations, theatre companies and charities as practitioners in applied drama, youth arts and participatory arts, set up their own companies or gone on to postgraduate degree programmes in Drama, Youth and Community Work, Teacher Training or Dramatherapy.

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BA SET DESIGN & PRODUCTION

The Set Design and Production degree in Carmarthen provides a unique offering that focuses on Film, Television, Theatre, and events. It is an industry focused practical course that provides our students with multiple pathways into the industry and develops practitioners who are well-rounded and have a solid knowledge base. Our studetns and graduates are skilled in more than one area and ready to engage with the media and entertainment industries.

. The degree is aimed at individuals who are fascinated by the processes of imagining, visualising, creating, and constructing. These processes find substance in research, designing techniques, model making, prop making, set dressing, location scouting, fullscale set building, lighting, sound and costume design. The provision also explores digital creativity through LED lighting, Audio Visual design and digital worlds explored through virtual reality. The degree is for creatively inquisitive individuals who want to design and make environments; to turn narrative, scripts and screenplays into amazing, reimagined spaces through carefully planned practical modules and expert tuition.

A strength of the course is the frequent use of industry professionals to help our students explore, design and create exciting new works. Our students will be exposed to a variety of practitioners, companies and experiences to ensure they are engaging with the industry as early as possible. The collaborative and immersive nature of the Carmarthen campus encourages a variety of additional creative opportunities.

Throughout the degree, there is flexibility to allow our students to specialise and explore their own pathway, offering a variety of work placement opportunities, study abroad and practical projects. This ensures that students get the experience they want during their time training with us as well as support into employment and beyond.

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MA THEATRE DIRECTING

Learn the craft of directing for the stage in practical and professionally controlled performance spaces. The aim of our MA in Theatre Directing is to explore and engage with the demands and expectations of the theatre director working in the contemporary theatrical context.

In this programme you will practically examine the mechanics of managing a rehearsal room and develop strategies and techniques for a creative, collaborative process. Throughout the course you will work with students, theatre professionals and creative practitioners in order to understand and explore the work of the theatre director in theory and in practice. The course will encourage you to lead workshops and practical acting sessions as well as develop your individual directing and creative style. The course will culminate in two large projects. The first being in the role of an assistant director where you will work alongside and collaborate with a professional director and the second being ‘The Directing Project’ where you will lead a full team of creatives and actors through a rehearsal process that culminates in a run of public performances.

“Working alongside specialist tutors and industry professionals, the course offers excellent facilities and innovative experiences to students, which will act as a catalyst for a career within the theatre industry”.

Peter Doran Artistic Director Torch Theatre

Full-time undergraduate applications are made through UCAS. All courses are listed under University of Wales Trinity Saint David code T80.

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