Year
2020
Units
4.5
Contact
1 x 3-hour project work weekly
Other requirements
Topic coordinator's approval required for enrolment
Enrolment not permitted
DRAM7106 has been successfully completed
Assessment
Assignment(s), Project, Practical work
Topic description
Students undertake an individual or collaborative project on a Drama or Creative Arts topic. Suitable topics will provide scope for students to develop in-depth knowledge about an aspect of Drama and live performance; to acquire relevant analytical and critical skills to respond to and engage in a creative process; to demonstrate their learning through collaboration and applying research to a performance or Creative Arts project.
Educational aims
This topic aims to:

  • enable students to develop in-depth knowledge on a topic in Drama and/or the Creative Arts;

  • enable students to explore relevant theories, methodologies and debates in Creative Arts scholarship and performance practice;

  • enable students to present their learning through independent or collaborative academic and performance practice;

  • develop students’ research skills in devising, investigating, analysing and critiquing performance.
Expected learning outcomes
On completion of this topic students will be able to demonstrate:

  • in-depth knowledge of a topic in Drama and/or the Creative Arts;

  • an awareness of relevant scholarship in Drama and the Creative Arts, including some methodologies debates within practice-led research;

  • appropriate research skills in devising, investigating, analysing and critiquing performance;

  • an ability to present learning in an appropriate independent/collaborative academic form or performance practice.