The BA (Hons) in Events Management is a one-year Top-Up Degree programme which has been designed to give you a theoretical and practical experience of the dynamic and fast growing Events industry. The modules on this course will provide you with the skills and experiences necessary for a successful career within the Events industry. This programme will allow you to enhance your current knowledge and skills to develop you as an events practitioner.
Converting your existing HND or Foundation Degree into a full BA (Hons), this course seeks to enhance your abilities and broaden your understanding of industry processes. Your learning will include lectures, seminars, guest speakers, conferences, trips, practical tasks at events, peer-group learning and independent study. The programme allows you to study modules such as:
- Strategic Management
- Festival Management
- Conference and Events Management
- Events Marketing
Your academic and course tutor will work with you throughout the duration of your programme, supporting your development and tracking your academic progress, to ensure that you achieve your best.
BA Technical Arts for Theatre and Performance at Wimbledon College of Arts teaches you how to make life-sized props, animatronics and prosthetics for film, theatre and the wider entertainment industry.
BA Technical Arts for Theatre and Performance introduces you to a wide range of processes, techniques and practices within this field. The course covers 4 key areas:
- Concept and design
- Materials used within the field
- Design fabrication and assembly
- Interactive and applied technical arts practices
You will experience a range of techniques used within current industry. This will enable you to select and use appropriate methods and materials.
You will learn the art of efficiently developing suitable prototypes for the field and be able select the most effective way of realising a variety of design ideas as you progress through your studies.
Alongside practical work you will also look at creative research theories. These will include a scenographic approach to understanding objects in the contexts of environments and audiences. This will expand your knowledge of industry practices and extend your own ideas to place them within a wider field of performance making.
Your progression through the course will introduce you to current industry modes of making and designing. This will be complimented by trips to professional technical arts based production studios within the field of entertainment.
You will have an opportunity to define and refine your specialist area of interest so that you finish the course with a creative technical practice.
