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Level 7 Programme
Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts (Acting for Screen And Theatre) Credits 360 (3.0 EFTS)
Start dates February
Annual fees $10,500 (NZD)
Campus Mt Albert
Duration Full-time for three years
(Approximate domestic fees only. Includes GST but excludes the Compulsory Student Services Fee levy)
Career opportunities
This degree is designed to develop your acting and performance skills to realise your full potential as an actor on-screen and onstage.
• Acting trainer/teacher • Actor for theatre, film and television • Performer • Performing arts manager • Presenter • Theatre deviser/creator
Highlights • Numerous opportunities for live and screen performance. • A vibrant multidisciplinary environment that includes dance, screen arts, production design and management, design and arts. • A collaborative model: you’ll work closely with directing and writing, film and television, and performance technology students. • Close links with industry: our tutors work in the industry and therefore retain currency and have relevant knowledge, experience and contacts. No other acting training course in Aotearoa has the same access and proximity to Auckland’s vibrant and rapidly expanding screen sector. • Unitec has 30 years’ training experience with a rich history of successful graduates, many who are now influencers and leaders in the industry. • Every year we have the privilege to work with many guest specialists and directors who run masterclasses, workshops and lead projects as directors, coaches, mentors and creators. • Strong international connections. • Pathway into the Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Practice or Master of Creative Practice.
Programme overview The acting training at Unitec is a learning opportunity unique in Aotearoa. We are proud of the multidisciplinary environment and range of performing and screen arts training options on our campus. This learning community provides many rich opportunities to work closely with students from other fields of study and to grow skills in a range of forms, media and environments. We work in an environment that is framed in Mātauranga Māori and the values our Te Noho Kotahitanga partnership evoke. The whanaungatanga we embrace with other disciplines is woven throughout the school via shared noho marae and other whānau events. Māori performing arts training is integrated into our learning. Partnering with Māori practitioners (writers, directors, etc ) strengthens this foundation for staff and students in our mahi. We are very fortunate to have the beautiful Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae and Maia centre on-site at Unitec to provide us valued support in our practice. Within the acting training at Unitec, you’ll work with our highly regarded permanent and guest tutors to refine your core skills in performance, voice, movement training, acting technique and professional practice. You’ll have many opportunities to practise your developing craft on a wide range of live and screen performance projects. Our facilities provide theatre and film studio spaces and the accompanying equipment to provide authentic learning experiences. You will learn practical skills for the industry you are preparing to enter and have a multitude of opportunities to connect with industry based specialists – and engage with Auckland’s rich live- performance and screen sectors. Within a rapidly-changing environment – actors need the flexibility to work in many spaces, styles and forms.
Collaboration and the capacity to ride the waves of change are key to building a sustainable career. The Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts programme is well placed to provide you with essential skills to be a versatile and inventive actor, performer, creator, artist and collaborator.
Auditions Each year we have a large number of applicants for the 24 places offered in Year One. First round auditions are held throughout New Zealand in early October. You’ll be given clear information at the time of your application about what to learn and how to prepare. From these auditions, a group of applicants is selected for second-round auditions. These are held in Auckland over a weekend in early November. From this two-day workshop, the final selection of trainee actors is made for the following year. If you’re not sure that you’re ready to audition for this highly competitive programme, look at the New Zealand Certificate in Study and Career Preparation (Level 4) - Screen Arts, Acting and Technical Production (see pg. 10) which is a full-time, semester-long programme designed to help you upskill if you’re interested in progressing to this degree.
Admission requirements For this programme, you’ll need:
Academic 1. 42 credits at NCEA Level 3 or higher including: • 14 credits in two different approved subjects; and • 14 credits from up to two subjects (approved or non-approved) 2. 14 credits in NCEA Level 1 or higher in mathematics or Pāngarau
