MRes/PgDip/PgCert Performance

Full-time

If you take the full-time MRes (Performance), you will study a core research module in each semester, each of which develops your knowledge and skills in research and practice as research, and culminates in the production of a 60 credit Research Project or piece of practice as research in Performance of your choosing. Complementing your study of research processes and techniques in semesters 1 and 2, you will be able to choose an optional module from the taught postgraduate suite in Performance at Salford. The work that you do here will enrich your subject knowledge and can be applied to the design and completion of the MRes Research Project in Semester 3.

Semester 1

Core Module: Research Methods and Methodologies

One elective module from the  Semester 1 MA provision within the Performance directorate

Semester 2

Core Module: Formulating Research Projects

One elective module from the Semester 2 MA provision within the Performance directorate

Semester 3

The MRes Research Project

Elective modules

Indicative list of the elective module options within the Performance directorate:

Critical Context: Performance and New Technologies

Practice as Research Project: Foundations

Creative Interactions

Practice as Research Project: Investigation

Storytelling and the Moving Image: The Feature Film

The Craft and Technique of Scriptwriting

Process and Creativity in Scriptwriting

Part-time

If you take the MRes (Performance) on a part-time basis, in Year 1 semester 1 you will study the Research Methods and Methodologies module followed, in semester 2, by an option of your choice from the taught postgraduate suite of modules in Performance at Salford. In semester 3, you will study the Formulating Research Projects module. In Year 2, your study will commence with an option from the taught postgraduate suite of modules at Salford, leading in semesters 2 and 3, to the completion of the MRes Research Project.

Year 1, Semester 1

Core Module: Research Methods and Methodologies

Year 1, Semester 2

One elective module from the  Semester 2 MA provision within the Performance directorate

Year 1, Semester 3

Core Module: Formulating Research Projects

Year 2, Semester 1

One elective module from the  Semester 1 MA provision within the Performance directorate

Year 2, Semesters 2 and 3

The MRes Research ProjectElective modules

Indicative list of the elective module options within the Performance directorate:

Critical Context: Performance and New Technologies

Practice as Research Project: Foundations

Creative Interactions

Practice as Research Project: Investigation

Storytelling and the Moving Image: The Short Film

Storytelling and the Moving Image: The Feature Film

The Craft and Technique of Scriptwriting

Process and Creativity in Scriptwriting