PGCert Teaching Professional Theatre Dance / MA Dance Education
- Duration 1 year (full-time) 2 years (part-time)
- Funding Available
Overview
Created from their inception as refined distance learning courses, you can access your learning from anywhere in the world at any time of day to fit in with the often-unpredictable life of a professional dance artist. This means that you can tailor your course to your other professional or personal commitments. The course can also be taken full or part-time to aid this flexibility.
The PGCert stage, which can be taken as a stand-alone qualification (4 months full-time, 8 months part-time), develops your understanding of professional dance pedagogy and theories of learning, how these ideas apply to practice, dance science for teaching, continued professional development best practice and how all of these ideas apply to your own teaching practice using opportunities to transfer the learning you are doing on the course directly into your everyday professional life.
The MA stage of study, which follows the PGCert stage of study (1 year full-time, 2 years part-time *including the PGCert stage) develops your professional practice through philosophical understanding of issues relating to the dance education field and research into personal professional practice and beyond. You will be able to extend your dance teaching practice and situate your own knowledge within the broader landscape of dance education and research.
As a student on either stage of the course, you will be able to use your own dance teaching practice as a playground to test out new ideas you are learning about to find ways to improve and enhance your skills and/or freshen up your approach underpinned by the most recent and relevant best practice in the industry.
Intakes for this course are in October and February of each academic year.
Validated by the University for the Creative Arts.
Structure
Entry requirements
Applications are made online directly to London Studio Centre and not through UCAS.
In addition to the online application form, applicants are required to submit a personal statement and two written references.
All applicants will be invited to an admissions interview.
In line with UCA’s admissions policy, the Entry Criteria and requirements are as follows:
- A good Honours degree or equivalent qualification in dance, dance education or a related discipline and/or relevant work experience, demonstrating an ability to study at postgraduate level.
- Access to a relevant weekly teaching practice either through employment or volunteering. Proof of this access is required.
- Consideration will also be given to applicants who can make a strong case for admission in relation to a particular project and can demonstrate their potential to satisfactorily complete the course.
- Other relevant and equivalent UK, European and International qualifications will be considered.
- For applicants whose first language is not English: Average IELTS score of 6.5 (or equivalent) with a minimum achievement of 5.5 for all components, is required.
Applicants who have non-standard qualifications (or who wish work or life experience to be taken into account as part of their application) will be considered on an individual basis, in line with the general aims and principles of the Admissions Policy and within the terms of the Accreditation of Prior Learning policy (APEL).
Applications are made online directly to London Studio Centre and not through UCAS. In addition to the online application form, applicants are required to submit a personal statement and two written references. All applicants will be invited to an Admissions Interview.
Annual Fees
PGCert Teaching Professional Theatre Dance
Tuition fees per annum (Academic Year 2023/24): £5,000
MA Dance Education
Tuition fees per annum (Academic Year 2023/24): £8,500
There is also an additional £200-£400 application fee for FHEA professional recognition with Advance HE.