Faculty of Arts
Performing Arts
Module Catalogue
Semester 1 - 2015/2016
Module Code: CP3004
Module Name: Current Debates and Practices
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
15
1
Level 6
Synne Behrndt
Module Description:
This is a debate-based course, drawing on a range of speakers. The idea is to develop our
own awareness of contemporary performance practices and related issues and the way they
are portrayed and from that be able to argue a personal position drawing on available
evidence and expertise. The precise content will depend on the issues of the day and
students will be expected to bring in issues that have particular relevance for them and their
intentions and aspirations beyond graduation. There will be discussion about potential
content in semester 1 to enable students to help plan the content of module 2. Much
attention will be paid to meticulous research and preparation.
Specific to:
Performing Arts (Contemporary Performance)
Performing Arts (Contemporary Performance) Joint
Assessments:
001:
Portfolio of annotated materials
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
100%
Day
Time
Module Code: DPA1000PA
Module Name: Histories and Contexts
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
30
2
Level 4
Richard Ireland Cuming
Module Description:
The module will be presented as a series of lectures introducing performance practitioners,
concepts and their contexts, exploring how the history of ideas informed – and was
informed by – social and cultural developments across cultures and art forms. It will
encourage the students to study its historical, cultural, social and political contexts through
case study of key practitioners. It will actively question performance in all its manifestations
and encourage students to build on their personal experience. By studying performance as
‘living history’ and placing the study firmly within these specific contexts, the students will
be able to reference and manipulate the information to inform their own future creative
work.
Specific to:
Performing Arts
Performing Arts Joint
Assessments:
001:
002:
Essay
Essay
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
50%
50%
Semester
S1
Day
Time
Module Code: DPA2000PA
Module Name: Dramaturgy: Analysis and Creative Development
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
30
2
Level 5
Synne Behrndt
Module Description:
This module introduces students to a number of different critical and reflective
methodologies in viewing and analysing and for creating texts and performance work. Thus
the module develops students’ ability to discuss, analyse and structure content, both in
terms of being viewers and critics as well as being makers of performance. It seeks to
develop students’ reflective and analytical approach in order that they can engage with
performance making as a process of investigation, reflection and exploration. It introduces
students to the dramaturgical questions involved in developing a concept and proposal for
performance. The module introduces students to a range of approaches and maps the
development from classical dramaturgy and narrative structures to the ‘new’ dramaturgies
and compositional approaches found in contemporary cross-disciplinary performance
practices. This module will be undertaken as a series of presentations, seminar discussions
and workshops leading to a presentation of analysis of text, film or performance (semester
1). The presentation should reflect a grasp of critical analysis and contextual awareness. The
presentation can be a live presentation or written submission. In semester two the module
culminates in a presentation of performance concept (semester 2). The presentation should
demonstrate and reflect a rigorous exploration of source material (an idea, theme, text,
concept, etc.), and it should give a vivid sense of the project and should be underpinned by
research and reflect a conceptual grasp and practical understanding. The presentation can
be a live presentation or written submission.
Specific to:
Performing Arts
Performing Arts Joint
Assessments:
002:
Analysis of performance or text
(2500 words)
Performance concept presentation
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
001:
Semester
S1
40%
60%
Day
Time
Module Code: DPA2006PA
Module Name: Open Project
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
30
2 [Taught over ONE semester]
Level 5
Stephen Hall
Module Description:
This module is almost entirely student-led. If a group of students are taking part in a
substantial extra-curricular drama-related project then they may opt to have that work, in
consultation with the Year 2 tutor and one other member of staff, count as a module. The
range of projects is limited to the students’ imagination and within the realm of
“performance-related”. Examples might include work on the Prison Project (where the
students have also been involved in their first year of study), a production project, an
applied project. The project may also take the form of a work-based learning project or
work placement. In these work-related contexts students would need to identify a suitable
mentor in the workplace who would supervise their work alongside an academic member of
staff. If the project is practice-based the student(s) will be required to write a practice-asresearch methodology statement and to reflect critically in an appropriate form selected
with guidance from staff. If it is a work-based learning or work placement activity the
students will be required to submit an agreed project-plan of schedule of work
Specific to:
Performing Arts
Performing Arts Joint
Assessments:
001:
002:
Practical project
Reflective criticism
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
50%
50%
Day
Time