The three year National Diploma in Musical Theatre is designed for those students with a specific vocational focus. It will equip them with the technical and creative skills necessary for a career in the performing arts.

This programme offers the students an intensive professional training. It aims to develop technical, artistic and creative skills to a professional level to prepare students for a successful and diverse career in Theatre Performance.

The Diploma is principally a performance based programme with the majority of time dedicated to dance, drama and singing. The remaining time, approximately one quarter of the curriculum, is spent on developing awareness of the broader contexts essential within professional practice, such as Fitness, Health & Safety, Music Theory and Appreciation and History of Musical Theatre. These courses are taught through short lectures and practical workshops.

National Diploma to BA (Hons) Conversion Course

An exciting new opportunity will soon exist for students with a National Diploma qualification to upgrade this to a BA (Hons), validated by the University of Greenwich. This will be a one year distance learning programme, allowing a graduate to continue their academic studies in their free time whilst in employment. The programme will comprise some short, intensive teaching periods at the College, and then the student will use email to communicate with their tutor and submit work.

This programme is scheduled to be presented for validation from September 2007.