Undergraduate - UnitATS3833 - Writing/Performance

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Centre for Theatre and Performance
Offered	Clayton First semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Felix Nobis

Synopsis

This is a performance-based unit continuing and developing the work of ATS2811. It investigates the processes involved in writing and creating performance works and performance texts of those works. Various strategies of initiating new work, including the possibilities of various sites and modes of performance, will be explored. Students will work under guidance to take these projects to public presentation standard. Students will then write either a performance text of the work they have created or an analysis of the writing/ performance project. To contextualise the chosen investigations there will be a weekly programme of readings, discussions and class presentations.

Outcomes

On successfully completing this subject students should be able to:

Write a clear and precise proposal for a possible future performance.
Initiate, research and create a detailed and theoretically informed performance work based on a proposal.
Develop a performance work from workshop stage through to public presentation.
Produce a clear and comprehensive performance text of a performance work.
Read, analyse and discuss the writing practices of selected performance practitioners.
Explain a range of theoretical ideas currently informing performance practice, both in engaging, live presentation and in clear and cogent written work.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Felix Nobis

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Performance

Prerequisites

ATS2811 or PER2040