| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Practical | Practical class 1 x 2 hour per week for first five weeks (5 practical classes in total) |
| Lecture | Lecture 1 x 2 hour per week for first five weeks (5 lectures in total) |
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | [1] Reflective Report: a 1000 word reflective analysis on the process and presentation of the etude. This work will be assessed against the following criteria: - Awareness and articulation of the strategies and procedures engaged. - Understanding and articulation of relationships between the given theme and the conceptual procedures engaged. - Understanding and awareness of personal functioning within the etude. - Understanding and awareness of group functioning within the etude. | 25% |
| Semester Assessment | 2] Conceptual Group Project: presented by the group; either live, on video, or by other means; outlining the conceptual procedures employed in devising a proposed performance work, in response to a brief given by the teaching staff. The presentation is to incorporate written, visual and physical material; both group and individually authored; as specified within that brief. The groups will be no more than 8 persons. The duration of the presentation will be 20 minutes. This work will be assessed against the following criteria: - Understanding and effective application of conceptual procedures discussed within the module. - Understanding of relationships between the material, chosen strategies and the proposed context. - Clarity of exposition. - Persuasiveness of presentation. - Evidence of group working within the conceptual framework of the project. | 75% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Failure of Assessment 1 would necessitate the submission of a 1000 word written analysis of a devised work, specified by the teaching staff, and analysed in relation to the strategies and procedures explored within the module. Failure of Assessment 2 would necessitate the submission of a 3000 word written analysis of a site work, specified by the teaching staff, and analysed in relation to the strategies and procedures explored within the module. |
On completion of this module, students should be able to.
1. To identify and employ conceptual procedures appropriate for conceiving non-textual performance.
2. To demonstrate an awareness and critical understanding of various theories and practices of dramaturgy.
3. To demonstrate an awareness and critical understanding of compositional procedures involved in writing for modes of performance other than those of dramatic dialogue.
4. To compose and organise intellectual and dramatic material specifically for live exposition within an academic context.
Creative problem solving, outcome recognition, and the identification of appropriate strategies and procedures, are encouraged and assessed across the duration of the module
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | This element is not assessed. |
| Communication | The individual student's ability to articulate and communicate their ideas and opinions is developed and encouraged across all aspects of the module, and the assessment forms recognise effective communication across written, verbal and performative material. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Self-regulation, motivation and time-management are demanded to maintain engagement with the development of the course and the completion of its concomitant assessed assignments. Assessment procedures recognise effective self-management and self-motivation. |
| Information Technology | Skills of information handling are exercised through the conduct of research, presentation processes, and the collation of materials, within both assessed submissions, and are recognised in the assessment of those submissions. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | The module encourages the initial development of skills directly applicable to careers within cultural (particularly theatre/performance) industries. Further transferable skills (project planning and execution, the development of personal creative initiatives) are also developed through the completion of assessment tasks, though careers need awareness does not of itself constitute an assessed element. |
| Problem solving | Creative problem solving, outcome recognition, and the identification of appropriate strategies and procedures, are encouraged and assessed across the duration of the module |
| Research skills | Appropriate personal research and the development of effective personal research practices, are implicitly encouraged throughout the module, and are assessed through their impact on the development and presentation of the assessed submissions. |
| Subject Specific Skills | The generation and ordering of intellectual and dramatic material in contexts outside either the play script or the auditorium; group creation, organisation and presentation; textual composition; and the organisation of alternative sites of exposition. |
| Team work | Group working is addressed across the duration of the module. Practical classes demand the application of skills necessary to conduct successful collaborative activity. The assessed group project relates directly to the development and employment of such skills. |
This module is at CQFW Level 5