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Study abroad
Students are encouraged to spend a year in Spain or Spanish
America, especially at one of the universities with which we have
close associations, such as Granada, León, Salamanca, Seville,
or the Colegio de México. At a minimum, you will be required to
spend two months in a Spanish-speaking country prior to taking
your final exams.
Career opportunities
The main career opportunities are: teaching, journalism and
the visual media generally, while some recent graduates have
gained EU placements in Brussels.
A substantial proportion of students engage in further study,
particularly diploma and masters’ courses in interpreting and
translation. Ample opportunities exist in several universities, both
in the U.K. and in Ireland, with Trinity College’s new M.Phil. in
Literary translation and comparative literature proving popular.
A steady stream of undergraduates have also chosen to pursue
M.Litt. and Ph.D. research degrees at Trinity College.
Further information
www.tcd.ie/Hispanic_Studies/pages/undergraduate.php
Tel: +353 1 896 1257
Acting
PLACES 2011:
DEGREE AWARDED:
14
Bachelor in Acting (Hons.)
Special Entry Requirements:
This is a restricted entry course.
This course is taught by The Lir – National Academy of
Dramatic Art @ Trinity College Dublin. It is not part of
the CAO application system. Application forms can be
downloaded now from The Lir website
www.thelir.ie
and
should be mailed to The Administrator, The Lir – National
Academy of Dramatic Art, Trinity College, Dublin 2,
Ireland.
Entry is by Audition. Students will prepare a classical
and a contemporary monologue for first audition. Each
monologue should be no more than three minutes long.
Successful applicants at first audition will be required to
attend at least one more round of auditions at which voice,
movement and group skills will be assessed. The final date
for receipt of applications is 1 February 2012. Auditions will
be held between February and April 2012.
See also:
TR001 Drama studies, page 51
TR025 Drama and theatre studies, page 51
Acting
This is a three-year, full-time, intensive honors degree designed
to train students of exceptional talent with the skills necessary
for a career as an actor in the professional theatre and related
industries. Through a series of skills-based modules in acting
technique, voice, movement, dance, and singing, as well as
complementary classes in dramaturgy and text analysis, it seeks
to equip students with the skills necessary to translate or create
for performance a wide variety of approaches to theatre. In order
to emulate best practice of The Lir’s associate drama school
(RADA) the course is taught over nine semesters (three per
annum) and over three years. Given the practical nature of the
course, and the principal objective of training the actor’s body as
an instrument as well as the creative imagination, the intensity of
the training for actors means that a student can expect to be in
class for 36 weeks per annum (three 12-week semesters).
Is this the right course for you?
Being an acting student at The Lir is completely different to being
a student on other drama courses. While students of degree
courses in English or drama might be in taught classes for
approximately 14 hours per week, students at The Lir can
expect to be in classes, workshops and rehearsals on average
for 35 hours per week, and sometimes more when in production.
Training for the theatre at The Lir is founded on the basic principle
of simulating the working environment of a professional theatre.