Bachelor's in Acting

Acting is a Bachelor program taught at Bath Spa University, UK. Intake: Fall, Spring. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time (4 years) options.

Bath Spa University offers a BA (Hons) Acting degree (single honours) that prepares students to work across live performance, screen, voice over, and digital technologies such as mo-cap and animation. The course covers training focused on “Preparing the Actor,” ensemble work, and performance practice, then moves into text work, live and mediated performance, and portfolio building through the module “The Actor’s Portfolio Career.”

Teaching includes practical acting classes, seminars, workshops, tutorials, rehearsals, and small groups, with regular one-to-ones with specialist staff. Acting is assessed through performances, self-reflective journals and essays, vivas, blogs/vlogs, and presentations, with external industry professionals leading final-year projects. It is a full time course with an average of 12 hours of teaching contact and 6 hours of facilitated rehearsals, plus independent study time, and students work through a production-focused final year via Bath Spa Productions and SparkFest.

Modules

• Preparing the Actor
• Introduction to Acting
• Acting Processes in Action
• Form and Practice
• The Actor in an Ensemble
• Performance Practice
• Text Project
• Theatre Making
• The Actor’s Portfolio Career
• Live Performance
• Mediated Performance
• The Self-Directed Creative

The minimum requirements for admission in Acting at Bath Spa University for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

• program specific academic requirment set by Bath Spa University.
• English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Bath Spa University as pre-requiste for admission in Acting.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

Entry Requirements

To gain admission into the Bachelor's Degree in Acting, applicants typically need to have completed secondary education with a strong academic record. Relevant experience in drama, theater, or related fields is highly advantageous and may enhance the application. Prospective students are often required to attend an audition to demonstrate their acting skills and passion for performance.

Please check detail of study units at https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/courses/ug-acting/

• Work across stage, screen, and voiceover for books and video games
• Appear in immersive experiences, major touring pantomimes, short award-winning films, and musical theatre productions
• Act in dramas by Netflix, the BBC, and ITV
• Establish theatre companies and create national tours
• Work in further study or related performance roles, including artistic directors, writers, arts officers, and teachers

85 fully funded scholarships are listed for UK. See UK scholarships.