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ATS2811

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

Centre for Theatre and Performance

Coordinator(s)

Dr Misha Myers

Offered

Clayton

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

This practical, performance based unit is the first unit in the Performance Minor, and investigates the processes of making and theorising performance. It focuses on various elements of performance, including technical knowledge, stage-management, acting, and devising and students may choose their area of specialization. Each week students will complete short performance exercises exploring a particular element of performance. They will then proceed to make a self-initiated work drawing on the ideas and practices of the weekly sessions. In addition there will be several guided performance projects throughout the semester, led by industry practitioners. As well as practical projects, students will undertake readings, presentations, and work on portfolios to demonstrate their integration of the theories of performance into their practical research.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the unit students should:

  1. Be creative scholars who understand the relationship between theory and practice in performance
  2. Be able to investigate and problem solve in a number of elements of performance through theoretical analysis and practical realisation.
  3. Be responsible and effective collaborators who demonstrate effective communication skills, exhibit ethical behaviour, and understand the cultural context of their practice.
  4. Be aware of the technical complexity of performance, and understand the need for life-long learning to build on the foundations laid in this unit
  5. Show a growing awareness of current contemporary performance practice.
  6. Be aware of the context of contemporary industry practice and will actively be engaging with it.

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.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Misha Myers

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

Performance

Prerequisites

ATS1287 and ATS1288.