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Course Description
BA Dance is a physically and intellectually challenging training programme that will build your skills in contemporary dance practices. The strong practical focus forms an immersive and challenging artistic environment that will support your development as a creative artist. Creativity and performance lie at the heart of the course; modules are designed to give you regular opportunities to present new work you have generated in a range of performance projects.
Physical training is an important component of your study, particularly for the Single Honours route. Cunningham and Limon based classes, somatic practices and contact improvisation are key elements of this and underpin your development as a strong and confident ‘thinking body’. The programme offers specialist modules in Somatics and Digital Performance Practice and these areas will help to support your development as a creative dance practitioner. You will also have a chance to explore how dance intersects with other art forms to make performance and how you can use this knowledge to help to build the critical and analytical mind set essential to creative enquiry.
Psychology is one of the most popular degrees in higher education. Whether the focus is neural mechanisms or complex human relationships, Psychology is an interconnected "hub Science" that allows students to contribute to the questions and challenges that face society.
Providing you with a variety of skills including communication, computing, numeracy, teamwork, independent learning and critical thinking, a degree in Psychology is highly valued by employers. Our course equips graduates for a range of careers and fields including education, health, civil service, private industry and commerce.
Course Content
Dance
This course offers or includes the following modules. The modules you take will depend on your pathway or course combination (if applicable) as well as any optional or open modules chosen. Please check the programme document (below the main image on this page) for more information.
Year one (Level 4) modules
- Creative Dance Practice 1
- Digital Performance Practice 1
- Body in Performance 1
- Creative Dance Practice 2
- Somatic Improvisation
- Body in Performance 2
- Creative Collaborations
Year two (Level 5) modules
- Creative Dance Practice 3
- Performance in Context 1
- Performance Project
- Creative Dance Practice 4
- Digital Performance Practice 2
- Performance in Context 2
- Professional Placement Year
Year three (Level 6) modules
- Professional Project: Dance Performance
- Body in Performance 3
- Somatics for Performance and Wellbeing
- Dance Research Project
- Dance Independent Study
- Dance Independent Study
- Professional Practice
- Creative Enterprise Project 1
Psychology
This course offers or includes the following modules. The modules you take will depend on your pathway or course combination (if applicable) as well as any optional or open modules chosen. Please check the programme document (below the main image on this page) for more information.
Year one (Level 4) modules
- Introduction to developmental and social psychology
- Introduction to comparative and cognitive neuroscience
- Introduction to psychological research design and analysis
- Individual differences: personality and intelligence
- The World in Ten Objects
Year two (Level 5) modules
- Qualitative psychological research design and analysis
- Quantitative psychological research design and analysis
- Social Psychology
- Biological and Cognitive Psychology
- Psychology of Mindfulness
- Abnormal/ Clinical psychology
- Forensic and Investigative Psychology
- Health Psychology
- Open Placements Module
- Health: Mind, Body, Society
- Science and Journalism Publishing
- Music Psychology
- Professional Placement Year
Year three (Level 6) modules
- Dissertation: Design and preregistration
- Dissertation: Research report
- Developmental Psychology
- Advanced Cognitive and Biological Psychology
- Counselling Psychology
- Clinical Neuropsychology
- Social Psychology of Peace and Conflict
- Applied Behavioural Psychology
- Evolutionary Neuroscience and the Origin of the Human Mind
- Child and Adolescent Neuropsychology
- Psychology of sexual health
- Animal behaviour
- Somatics for Performance and Wellbeing
- Publishing Industry Project
- Music Psychology – applied and experimental
Professional placement year
Overview
This optional placement year provides you with the opportunity to identify, apply for, and secure professional experience, normally comprising one to three placements over a minimum of nine months. Successful completion of this module will demonstrate your ability to secure and sustain graduate-level employment.
Course Intakes
| Location | Start Date | Fees | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Classroom Newton Park Bath Spa University Newton Park, Bath BA2 9BN, UK |
September, 2025
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UK/EU: |
4 years, Full Time |
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Entry Requirements
We accept a wide range of qualifications for entry to our undergraduate programmes. Typical offers include A Level grades CCC with grade C in Dance, Performing Arts and a grade C in Psychology or related subject (if Psychology is unavailable).
Assessment Methods
We’ll assess your work in a variety of ways such as practical performances, presentations, portfolios and essays. Practical projects may be assessed on your creative process, the final product or both.
Assessment varies and includes essays, debates, research reports, group presentations and examinations.
Additional Information
Award
BA/BSc (Hons) Dance and Psychology
School/s
Bath School of Music and Performing Arts, School of Sciences
Campus or location
Newton Park
Course length
Three years full time, or four years full time with professional placement year.
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