Course contact details
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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
100 Renfrew Street
Glasgow
G2 3DB
Arts with Community
- Bachelor of Arts
- 3 Years
- Full-Time
- 20 September 2027
- Undergraduate
- Main Site
Course summary
BA Arts with Community is a three-year programme for creative people who value the power of the arts to bring people together. Whether you are a performer, writer, musician, visual artist, dancer, storyteller, production artist or filmmaker, this programme will encourage you to develop your own artform. Studying at RCS will give you the space, time, and technique to find your voice and follow your own interests within the safe structure of the course.
Students on the BA Arts with Community programme bring a wide range of experiences with them. Whether deeply experienced with community and arts contexts, or just beginning to gain inspiration, our students want to make positive creative impacts with their practice.
From day one until graduation, you will work with a diverse range of artists, leaders, communities, and cultural organisations to develop your own practice playfully, creatively, and critically.
Your journey will begin by experimenting in safe, structured environments, learning to challenge your assumptions, try new things, and test ideas with others. As you progress, you will focus on a specific combination of artistic disciplines and community practices to hone a specialisation in the field. By your final year, you will expand your ability to take the reins to lead your own projects and inquiries. Guided by the RCS teaching team, you will determine the best focus to support your aims and aspirations for the future.
We do not offer deferred entry on this course
Subject options
This course offers the following subject options:
- Creative Practice: Collaborative Arts
Modules
Course Modules
Overview
BA Arts with Community is a practical course underpinned by theory and full of playful experimentation. Over 3 years, you will broaden and deepen your understanding of what it is to become a community-arts focused practitioner.
Learning to be a Community Artist
You will evolve as a community artist who is imaginative, creative, reflective and who can make change. As a self-determined learner, you will be able to understand people, communicate effectively, and problem-solve. You will learn to design creative projects ethically and sensitively with and for a range of people. By Year 3, you will expand your leadership and (creative) autonomy, enabling you to make work in a range of contexts and settings.
Explore, Evolve and Express
Throughout the course, you will gain experience by experimenting in a safe and structured environment. You will explore and evolve ideas, learn to express your opinions and test theories practically.
Over the 3 years, you will have opportunities to engage with communities, community artists and cultural organisations, developing your own practice playfully, creatively and critically resulting in a developed safer praxis.
Storytelling
Storytelling is how we communicate – storytelling is your own unique voice. It underpins the way we share our experience in the every-day world – through conversation, text, social media, books, art, music and performance, and so it is a core component of the course. With us, you will develop your own artistic voice through exploring the fundamentals of creative, written, visual, spoken, and performed expression in a range of contexts
A Playful Practice
Our curriculum is playful, interdisciplinary and collaborative in its design. You will have opportunities to follow your own interests within the safe structure of the course.
https://www.rcs.ac.uk/courses/ba-arts-with-community/#programme-structure
Assessment method
Please see our website for more information about this programme
How to apply
Apply by
13 January 2027
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
- Course code:
- 220F
- Institution code:
- R68
- Campus name:
- Main Site
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
Entry requirements
Typical qualification requirements
A levelE-A*
Two passes at A Level are required for this programme
UCAS TariffNot accepted
Scottish HigherD-A
Three passes are required for this programme.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
minimum score of 24 with 3 subjects at Higher Level
Every applicant to this programme will be required to audition for the course as well as complete an Acceptd account and application. Details of what is required for the audition can be found on our website under the 'How to Apply' section. https://www.rcs.ac.uk/courses/ba-arts-with-community/#how-to-apply
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Typical qualification requirements
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Offer: 24
minimum score of 24 with 3 subjects at Higher Level
Additional entry requirements
- Audition
- The audition/interview process is designed to help the interview panel find out more about you and your interest in and suitability for the programme. Although places at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland are competitive, we hope that the whole audition/interview process is an enjoyable experience for you. You will need to allow a half day for the in-person audition/interview. This allows for both individual and group activities. The audition/interview process consists of three parts: - Pre-Interview - At the audition/interview - After the audition/interview For further information about the application process please see: https://www.rcs.ac.uk/courses/ba-arts-with-community/#entry-requirements
- Interview
- An interview will be held at either our RCS Renfrew Street Campus or live online (depending on where you choose to audition) as part of the entrance process. During the interview, the panel will ask you questions about your creative practice and the work you shared with them. They will also ask you questions about community arts to find out more about your goals. For further information about the application process please see: https://www.rcs.ac.uk/courses/ba-arts-with-community/#entry-requirements
- Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) / Disclosure Scotland Check
- Portfolio
- Sending us your digital creative task Please read the creative task guidance carefully and complete all sections before you upload it to Acceptd. Your creative task is as follows: Please write a letter to us, outlining why you are interested in learning about community arts. We encourage you take a creative approach that plays to your own strengths. For example, you may wish to include sketches, musical notation, poems, scripted elements or even photos of your artwork or practice The letter will help us understand more about you, the way you think and learn, your arts practice and your intention to study BA Arts with Community. It will also help us to understand how you communicate in written and creative ways. It is up to you how you balance the words in your letter with your creative approach. Every applicant will take a different approach to this task – so please be free to do it in your own style. The letter must be between two and four A4 pages, inclusive of any creative material such as images, poems or scripts. The creative task must be completed 10 days prior to your audition/interview. Telling us about your audition/interview material via Acceptd As part of the audition/interview, you will be asked to either perform or show us something you have created/made. On Acceptd, you will be asked a series of questions related to your audition/interview choices* (See ‘At the audition/interview’)
- Other
- The interview day will include a group workshop activity where you will be working alongside participants who may have skills in other arts specialisms. The activities in the group workshop will be varied but may consist of undertaking a task with other interviewees, contributing to group ideas, or creating an artefact together. The group workshop will help us to understand how you work and communicate with others. For further information about the application process please see: https://www.rcs.ac.uk/courses/ba-arts-with-community/#entry-requirements
English language requirements
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
|---|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic) | 7.5 | 7.5 with a score of 7.5 in speaking and no component below 5.5 |
| TOEFL (iBT) | 102 | Overall score of 102, with minimum scores of: Reading – 18, Listening – 17, Speaking – 27, Writing – 17 |
| PTE Academic | 76 | Overall score of 76 with a minimum of 76 in speaking and 59 in all other components (reading, listening, writing) |
| Cambridge English Advanced | Overall score of 191 with a minimum of 191 in speaking and no component below 162 | |
| Cambridge English Proficiency | Overall score of 191 with a minimum of 191 in speaking and no component below 162 |
https://www.rcs.ac.uk/study/international-students/english-requirements/
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
Per year tuition fees
| Location | Fee | Year |
|---|---|---|
| England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands & Republic of Ireland | £9790* | |
| Scotland | £1820* | |
| EU & International | £29786* |
* This is a provisional fee and subject to change.
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
Additional fee information
Please note, all new students are required to pay associated programme cost related fees at the start of their studies.
For more information on fees, funding and Scholarship, please see our website.
Sponsorship information
Stage & Screen Scholarships
The School of Stage and Screen scholarships are awarded for a mixture of financial need and merit. Scholarships are applied for and awarded on an annual basis. If you are offered a place at the Conservatoire, you will be sent the relevant link to apply for a Scholarship.
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