Course

Bachelor of Performance

Approved Abbreviation: BPerf

Western Sydney University Course Code: 1619.1

This degree develops innovative, articulate performers who contribute to the arts community and the culture it serves. It offers high-level training in performance, performance production and analysis. It equips graduates with skills in the body-based learning central to performance. It does this in a 'laboratory' environment, in well-equipped studios. Skills in movement, voice, acting and production are augmented by intellectual, contextual studies.

Central are opportunities for interdisciplinary practice with colleagues in other arts fields. Performance professionals contribute significantly to teaching and professional placements opportunities exist. An active staff of artist-academics supports students to develop their individual goals.

Study Mode
Four years full-time or eight years part-time.

Admission

Entry through audition and interview, in which personal aptitude, professional experience and educational qualifications are taken into consideration.

International students may apply through submission of videotaped material prepared in accordance with the audition requirements (as detailed by Performance staff).

Course Structure

Qualification for this award requires the successful completion of 320 credit points, including the units listed in the recommended sequence below.

Recommended Sequence

Year 1

Autumn session

100394

Contemporary Arts 1: The Past in the Present

100396

Creative Strategies 1

100933

Performance Skills 1 (Introduction to Live Performance)

Spring session

100395

Contemporary Arts 2: Exploring the Topography

100397

Creative Strategies 2

100934

Performance Skills 2 (Developing the Performance Ensemble)

Year 2

Autumn session

101136

Contemporary Arts: Performance (Meaning and Identity)

101157

Performance Skills 3 (Performing Complex Texts)

One sub-major unit

One elective

Spring session

101135

Contemporary Arts: Performance (Histories)

101131

Collaborative Project

One sub-major unit

One elective

Year 3

Autumn session

101084

Contemporary Arts 3: Politics and Communities

101158

Performance Skills 4 (Performing in Screen Contexts)

One sub-major unit

One elective

Spring session

101085

Contemporary Arts 4: Futures

101160

Project 1

One submajor unit

Year 4

Professional strand

Autumn session

101179

Interdisciplinary Arts Project

Spring session

101159

Professional Practice

101161

Project 2

One elective

Honours

An Honours stream is offered - see the Honours in Bachelors Awards Policy and associated College Guidelines for the admission criteria:

Policies Website

For students taking Honours units in 2008, please use the Unit Search facility for information regarding the new Honours units 101416.1 - Creativity: Theory and Practice; 101417.1 - Project Seminar and Proposal; and 101418.1 - Major Research Project

Autumn session

100640

Research Project Seminar

100638

Investigative Procedures in the Contemporary Arts

Session 1H

100639

Major Research Project

Session 2H

100639

Major Research Project

Sub-majors

All students must complete one of the following sub-majors. The second sub-major may also be completed using elective places.

SM1619PERF

Performance

SM1619HYBP

Hybrid Performance

Sub-major elective spaces

Elective units may be used toward obtaining an additional approved sub-major (40 credit points). Western Sydney University offers sub-majors in a range of areas including Sustainability and Indigenous Studies.

Indigenous Australian Studies Sub-major

Indigenous Australian Creative Expressions Sub-major

Indigenous Economics Sub-major

Business Sustainability Sub-major

Refer to the Unit Set Index.

Handbook Unit Set Index

Students can apply for an elective major or sub-major via MySR in the Unit Sets section under Enrolment.

MyStudentRecords (MySR)