| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Lecture | 10 x 1 hour lectures |
| Seminars / Tutorials | 10 x 1 hour seminars |
| Workload Breakdown |
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Creative portfolio of research tasks and materials (equal to 2000 words) | 50% |
| Semester Assessment | Essay on critical approaches to theatre history and historiography (2000 words) | 50% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Creative portfolio of research tasks and materials (equal to 2000 words) | 50% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Essay on critical approaches to theatre history and historiography (2000 words) | 50% |
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
1. Articulate the relation between the disciplines of theatre and history in presentation and written form.
2. Demonstrate an understanding, in particular, of how a theatrical event can sometimes be an historical event.
3. Understand the key difference between the role of 'theatre in history' and the role of 'history in theatre'.
4. Critically consider the politics surrounding the making of theatre history.
5. Develop idependent research skills by identifying, accessing and presenting relevant historical research in a creative way.
This builds upon the broad historical approach to theatre that students encounter on core level one modules. These courses are necessarily of an introductory nature, whereas this module, by focusing, in this instance, on the theatres of the French Revolution, adopts a tighter historical focus and addresses theatre historiography and methodologies for examining the role of theatre in history analytically and creatively.
The course studies the interaction of theatre with history in order to demonstrate how this contributes to understanding the discipline as a whole. It introduces students to some of the principal methodologies used by theatre theorists and historians, and it provides them with the opportunity to gain knowledge and understanding of core conceptual and critical approaches to theatre history.
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | |
| Communication | Students' oral and written communication skills will be developed (e.g appropriate language and style, accuracy, precision and ability to be concise). Opportunities will be given through interactive contact and discussion sessions for students to display confidence in using their speaking and listening skills when communicating their ideas |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Students will be able to develop their skills of information location, bibliographic resources and interdisciplinary research methodology. Students will be given opportunity to expand on their effective note-taking skills. Students will develop the ability to analyze, interpret, evaluate and integrate knowledge and understanding gained from lectures, texts as well as performance analyses so as to encourage new ideas |
| Information Technology | Students will be given the opportunity to develop their authorial and note-taking skills during lecture-demonstrations and in preparation of the oral and written assignments. Students will be given opportunities to develop their skills using the CPR archive's audio-visual resources, electronic databases and retrieval of sources both on the web and on the UWS LIS. Students will develop their skills when referencing from the web and related sources, whilst the ability to evaluate (not describe) and ability to be selective in using these materials are also essential key skills. E-Mail and Blackboard will be major forms of communication and information-sharing in this module and students will be given the assignment to actively engage in these processes by contributing their work to the online forum. The Department stipulates that students must present all of their written assignments in type-script and according to MLA-Style Guide. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Students will be given the opportunity to evaluate current knowledge and skills and set targets for self-improvement. Students will be encouraged to take increasing responsibility for managing their own learning. Students will be encouraged to build upon the knowledge gained from lectures through developing skills in self study (supported by the general and specific reading lists and other resources distributed through the module) |
| Problem solving | Problem identification and analysis, particularly when exploring probolems relating to theatre history and the varying theories and practices. Ability to choose from a variety of related source materials as well as organize and critically assess research material from an interdisciplinary perspective. Skill to evaluate methodological choices and approaches when using interdisciplinary sources. |
| Research skills | Students will be able to develop their skills of information location, bibliographic databases and interdisciplinary research methodology. Students will be given opportunity to expand on their effective note-taking skills. Students will develop the ability to analyze, interpret, evaluate and integrate knowledge and understanding gained from lectures, dramatix text as well as performance analysis so as to encourage new ideas |
| Subject Specific Skills | Problem identification and analysis, particularly when exploring theatre and performance research from a theatre/dance focused comparative perspective on corporeality and the body. Ability to choose from a variety of related source materials as well as organize and critically assess research material from an interdisciplinary perspective. Skill to evaluate methodological choices and approaches when using interdisciplinary sources |
| Team work | Team work will be developed in preparation for the oral report as well as through interactive lecture and seminar participation. Group/work and seminar collaboration will empower the student to develop their team-working and leadership skills |
This module is at CQFW Level 5