Performing Arts (Hons) University of Malta

Overview

This Performing Arts (Hons) course at the University of Malta  allows you to take study-units from three different performance disciplines Ö Dance Studies, Music Studies, and Theatre Studies Ö and follow a programme of study according to your aspirations by registering for specific study-units on offer in the course catalogue. 

This approach at combining resources from the three disciplines in the School of Performing Arts (SPA) allows you to formulate and follow tailor-made programmes of your own personal choice. You will be required to register for 60 ECTS credits every year, which will be divided approximately equally from the three areas of study offered by SPA. You will have the chance to demonstrate your newly acquired knowledge of the subject by writing a dissertation in combined performing arts, involving at least two, or all three disciplines.

Career opportunities

• As a graduate, we hope that you will shape the creative arts and educational sectors of the future. We work hard to maintain strong links with professionals in the performing and cultural sectors, nationally and internationally. Our study-units are designed and taught to international standards of excellence. We believe that the range and quality of the study-units we offer give our students an advantage in a competitive world.

• After completing this course, you will possess interdisciplinary skills and knowledge in dance, music, and theatre. You will be able to seek employment opportunities, both locally and abroad, in a wide variety of areas. 

• These include teaching, arts and cultural industries, performance companies, broadcasting, journalism, archiving, academic research, publishing, scriptwriting and proof-reading. 

• Such careers provide enough opportunities for the integration of interdisciplinary research techniques with innovation aimed at the creation of projects employing the performing arts. The programme is also conceived as one of the pathways for a career in academia.

• The Bachelor in Performing Arts provides a direct undergraduate pathway to the already-existing postgraduate programme, MA by Research in Performing Arts.