Module Identifier | PF20210 | ||
Module Title | PERFORMANCE IN CONTEXT | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Professor Mike Pearson | ||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||
Other staff | Ms Jill Greenhalgh, Dr Roger Owen | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 20 Hours 10 x 2 hour lecture/seminar presentations | |
Assessment | Semester Assessment | Essay: 2,500 word written essay Write an in-depth commentary on the relationship between and one of the principal examples of performance and one of the areas of negotiation discussed during the module | 50% |
Semester Assessment | Performed essay of 15 minutes duration Reconsider and rearticulate the material presented in the above essay in a different spatial or temporal context. This may be done live, on video or through any other medium (The performed essay will be marked jointly by two members of staff) This module will also be subject to non-contributory self and peer assessment for the students to monitor their own progress. | 50% |
Typically, upon completion of the module, the student will be able:
- to demonstrate an intelligent awareness of the repercussions of social and cultural context upon the form and function of performance
- to formulate and employ personal research strategies in the examination of the relationship between a specific context and performance practice
- to analyse reflexively - and to rework performatively - personal intellectual argument
to realise academic argument through performative procedures, requiring communication and oral presentation skills; and to employ personal performative practices in academic presentation
To provide a non-chronological and non-canonical approach to the identification description of performance behaviours, practices and genres, and to performance-like activities.
To identify a number of contexts in which different types of performance may be negotiated: and the social, cultural and environmental implications of those contexts on the nature, form, function and placement of performance.
To examine these contexts in a comparative and interdisciplinary manner, drawing from the fields of history, anthropology, human geography, sociology, politics, rhetoric and aesthetics.
The lectures will be staged as multi-media presentations including video and data projection.
Criteria for Assessment :
i] Written essay : in assessing the essay, the examiner will expect:
- an appreciation and application of the interdisciplinary analytical approaches presented in the module (30% of the overall essay mark)
- an understanding of the ramifications of social, cultural and historical context upon the form and function of performance as presented in the module (30%)
- an ability to sustain an intellectual argument for the duration of the essay (15%)
- evidence of individual research and reading in addition to lecture material (15%)
- appropriate presentation, including bibliography (10%)
ii] Performed essay : in assessing the performed essay, the examiners will expect:
- a creative application of dramaturgical procedures in the rearticulation of essay material (25% of the overall performed essay mark)
- imaginative, intellectual reworking of academic argument (25%)
- an understanding of the relationship of the material to the new spatio- temporal context (30%)
- clarity of exposition (10%)
- persuasiveness of presentation (10%)
Transferable skills :
- presentation of argument in an assured and confident manner through live exposition
- the reworking and presentation of academic argument through live exposition.
- self-discipline and reflexive functioning in rearticulating personally generated material.