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Students a-twitter as Monash Uni shakes up Bachelor of Performing Arts degree

Social media fans the rumour mill, but the future of Monash's Bachelor of Performing Arts is brighter than first feared.

30 Oct 2013

Richard Watts

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Photo: A Monash BPA student production. Credit: David Sheehey.

Fears that Monash University was set to phase out its Bachelor of Performing Arts (BPA) degree, a three-year, full time course based at Monash’s Clayton Campus, have eased this week with news that the BPA will be integrated with the existing Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts