Hair, Make-Up and Prosthetics for Stage and Screen (Hons) University of Northampton

Overview

With a placement opportunity and a focus on the etiquettes of industry environments, the Hair, Make-Up and Prosthetics for Stage and Screen (Hons) BA programme offered at University of Northampton has a strong employability focus. Alongside practical and employability skills, the programme provides historical and cultural academic contextualisation of hair, make-up and prosthetics across a range of stage and screen contexts.

Students will have access to:

• Bespoke hair, make-up and prosthetic rooms that are stimulating and at the same time practical, safe and ideal for learning the craft of hair, make-up & prosthetics
• Lecturers with both professional experience as Make-up Artists and Prosthetic Creators and academic theoretical knowledge of the sector and history of effects for stage and screen.
• Guest lectures, workshops and employability orientated events led by industry figures who have worked on a number of high profile projects within the industry.

Key Facts

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be equipped with both practical skills and theoretical contextual knowledge of the Hair, Make-Up and Prosthetics Creative Industries to work as (but not limited to):

• Make-up artists and assistants
• Specialist hair stylists
• Wig designers
• Prosthetics artists.

Highlights

• A range of teaching and learning deliveries from practical workshops to interactive small group seminars.
• Opportunity to by taught by a team of both industry experts and published academic researchers.
• Gain actual industry experience and put what you have learnt into practice via a work placement element to the course.

• Be taught in specially designed spaces with industry standard facilities to prepare you for a career working in the make-up, hair and prosthetics sectors of the creative industries.