Our Musical Theatre curriculum provides a complete practical training experience for students interested in performance. Based at the Millennium Studios in London, the course’s core disciplines are dance, singing and acting, with a focus on excellence in Musical theatre practice.

You will gain high-level skill sets in practice to shape your performance abilities as well as your contextual understanding, preparing you for work, immediately upon graduation. All of our students are taught by highly-experienced industry professionals who are passionate about teaching the next generation of performers. Millennium Performing Arts produces graduates that have the knowledge and confidence to make a significant contribution to whatever discipline they undertake, either as performers or in later life, as teachers, directors or producers.

Key Features
- This course is based in London at the Millennium Performing Arts studios.
- Millennium Performing Arts has strong connections to the performing arts professions including West End and major Touring Companies as well as Travel and Cruise Companies
- Musical Theatre BA (Hons) with Millennium Performing Arts is taught by high-end practitioners with extensive experience in all aspects of performance including musical theatre, Jazz and Contemporary Dance, Opera, TV, Film, - Cabaret as well as management at all levels and artistic directorship.
- Students will receive technical training up to professional level as well as the knowledge they need to navigate the industry.
- Millennium Performing Arts is home to some large studios, with sprung flooring, singing rooms, acting studios, an in-house café and nearby private fitness and Pilates facilities, a treatment room, lecture rooms, a library and AV room, a bookshop and changing facilities and an office

Equip yourself for a challenging career in the fast-paced and fast growth marketing communications industry. It is also recognised by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) as career-relevant.

You'll learn from our team of specialist academic staff and marketing communications professionals and be supported by regular career coaching. You'll engage with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) as you position yourself to enter this highly creative sector.

With its strong focus on innovation, creativity and contemporary issues, (such as digital communications, social media, instant gratification and globalisation), this highly-specialised degree will signal that you are creative, focused and commercially-driven. You will be able to demonstrate your marketing communications expertise alongside the skills most valued by employers.

You will engage with the latest thinking through a research project supported by a member of our Customer Interactions Research Group.

Key features
- Enhance your employability through internships, consultancy projects, a one-year paid placement and integrated coaching from experienced business leaders
- Experience international cultures and develop a global mind-set through options to work and study abroad
- A degree which is dual accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
- Recognised from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR)
- Associate Membership with Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
- Opportunities to engage in additional professional certifications throughout the degree

Set yourself up for an exciting career in business marketing. You’ll be supported by our professional network of academic staff, business leaders and the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). You'll be well placed to launch your graduate marketing career, whether you aspire to work in a marketing role or for a marketing agency.

You'll gain subject expertise in business and marketing, alongside a grounding in contemporary business issues (such as globalisation, digital communications and the growth of social media). You'll be able to demonstrate your business knowledge through active experience, such as applied consultancy projects, paid placements, internships and study abroad. This active experience will show that you are a creative, customer-oriented and commercially-focused graduate with a broad range of skills that are valued by employers.

Key features

- Gain Associate Membership of the Chartered Management Institute and accreditation through the Chartered Institute of Marketing - there will be a charge for membership of the professional bodies
- Work with marketing specialists and academics who have extensive experience of management, consultancy or running their own business
- Enhance your employability through internships, consultancy projects, a one-year paid placement and integrated coaching
- Experience international cultures and develop a global mindset through options to work and study abroad

Are you committed to a career in an art practice that creatively engages with your community? If so, the MA Art and Social Practice is ideal.

Artists in the 21st century increasingly find themselves working in participatory settings where skills in creative and social engagement are essential. This programme addresses these changing needs and facilitates a shift in thinking away from conventional ideas about where art practices are located and how work is disseminated.

The course offers focused provision enabling you to develop an appropriate level of knowledge and research to inform practical work, together with the critical and analytical processes and technical skills required to effectively deliver a project in the public domain.

Special features
- Taught by an inter-disciplinary team of artists and specialists from social anthropology, social and collaborative art practices and sculpture, who work across a range of local, national and international contexts, from urban centres to remote and small communities
- You will have the option to meet in real life during the annual Winter School located in rotating locations in the Highlands and Islands
In the final stage of the module you will choose your own mentor from local, national or international specialists
- You will meet leading figures in the field, from Scotland, the rest of the UK and internationally, through the annual Virtual Symposium, visiting Lecturers and guest speakers

This flexible top-up year is designed to follow on from our Foundation Degree in Music & Sound...
Equivalent to the 3rd year of a degree, this flexible top-up year is designed to follow on from our Foundation Degree in Music & Sound, but would also suit any applicants studying a music related HND, Foundation Degree or indeed those with recognised industry experience backed up with qualifications. Validated by the University of West London, the course has been developed to mirror the modern music industry, allowing students to learn the skills to become independent, multi-skilled music practitioners, fluent with various forms of multi-media.

The BA (Hons) Live Event Management degree is a groundbreaking programme with the ever-changing live music ecosystem at its heart. Developed in consultation with key bodies of the live events industry, this highly practical contemporary course will connect you to the cutting edge of the fast-moving and constantly evolving live events sector. You’ll be encouraged to look to the future to see what’s possible, as you collaborate on real-world projects and build impressive creative, business, management and innovation skills.

Designed for the next generation of entrepreneurs in the multi-billion-pound UK live events industry, you’ll develop a host of practical, theoretical and creative skills in live production, event management and arts curation. Immersing you at the heart of the industry, you’ll gain the knowledge and abilities you need to run creative live music events across your professional career.

For over 25 years Mountview has been internationally renowned for the quality of its musical theatre tuition and our alumni continue to influence and shape the industry.

Our intensive 1-year MA programme delivers focused, culturally engaged, practical performer training. The course enables graduates to confidently enter the industry, fully prepared with the skillset to assuredly navigate the demands of any performance space.

COURSE CONTENT AND DELIVERY

Students receive over 30 hours of direct teaching time each week, with a maximum of 17 students per class.

Over the first two terms you will undertake skills training split equally between the three essential musical theatre skills – acting, singing and dance – including one-to-one singing lessons and classes in acting for camera in term two. In each term, the skills work is then applied to performance projects. These projects include work on non-musical contemporary texts, and classic and contemporary book musicals.

There will be additional lectures and seminars on devising, autobiographical and solo performance, as well as on concepts such as intersectional feminist, post dramatic, queer and critical race theories, socio/political theatre practices and the performance of knowledge.

Through the first and second term, all students undertake the Creative Project, creating an original piece of theatre or film, performed at the end of term two. The Creative Project is supported and developed by one-to-one tutorials and influenced by the concepts discussed in the seminar/lecture programme.

Mountview’s MA Acting course delivers vocational, culturally engaged and practical performance training.

Over an intensive one-year programme of study, students will be thoroughly prepared for a career in theatre, TV, film and recorded arts. The MA is delivered through workshops and classes designed to expand the skillset and develop the individual strengths of each student.

COURSE CONTENT AND DELIVERY

Students receive over 30 hours of direct teaching time each week, with a maximum of 17 students per class.

Over the first two terms you will undertake rigorous skills training in all areas of an actor’s professional practice, including acting technique, voice, movement, singing, stage combat and acting for camera and recorded media. In each term, the skills work is then applied to performance projects, working with contemporary and classical texts.

There will be additional lectures and seminars on devising, autobiographical and solo performance, as well as on concepts such as intersectional feminist, post dramatic, queer and critical race theories, socio/political theatre practices and the performance of knowledge.

Through the first and second term, all students undertake the Creative Project, creating an original piece of theatre or film, performed at the end of term two. The Creative Project is supported and developed by one-to-one tutorials and influenced by the concepts discussed in the seminar/lecture programme.

Over 25 years ago Mountview created the UK’s first specialist three-year musical theatre training.

Decades later, our alumni continue to influence and shape the industry and Mountview is internationally renowned for the quality of its musical theatre tuition.

Early application is strongly encouraged.

COURSE CONTENT AND DELIVERY

Study takes place over three 12-week terms a year for three years. Students work in small classes and receive over 25 hours of direct teaching time each week, including one-to-one singing lessons.

The course is delivered through classes, projects, workshops and performance opportunities. During the course students engage in a range of performance projects, including Shakespeare, contemporary plays and musicals. The first half of each term is devoted to skills classes whilst in the second half of each term these skills are applied to performance projects.

In the second year, skills are further explored in collaboration classes which include peer integration and team teaching to enhance your creativity and help you to make connections between subjects.

Additionally, there is time given to tailored ‘surgeries’ to focus on detail and help develop independence and confidence in each individual’s practice.

Mountview’s vocational BA actor training will thoroughly prepare you for a career in theatre, TV, film and recorded arts.

The course develops technical acting skills through a combination of workshops and performances. Classes are designed to inspire imaginative engagement and develop practical experience, encouraging students to take risks, develop strengths and expand their acting range.

Early application is strongly encouraged.

COURSE CONTENT AND DELIVERY

Study takes place over three 12-week terms a year for three years. Students work in small classes and receive over 25 hours of direct teaching time each week.

The course is delivered through classes, projects, workshops and performance opportunities. During the course students engage in a range of performance projects, working on Shakespeare, contemporary plays and musicals as well as devising original work. The first half of each term is devoted to skills classes whilst in the second half of each term these skills are applied to performance projects.

In the second year, skills are further explored in collaboration classes which include peer integration and team teaching to enhance your creativity and help you to make connections between subjects.

Additionally, there is time given to tailored ‘surgeries’ to focus on detail and help develop independence and confidence in each individual’s practice.