Concepts and Creativity (DRAM10017)
Undergraduate level 1Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
Overview
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This first year level subject will introduce students to a brief history of arts practice, and to ways of seeing, understanding and thinking about their own art form and its relationship to other forms of performing arts. Two approaches will be introduced concurrently:
1. A series of one and a half hour lectures on key aspects of the history and modern context of the respective art forms – e.g. Dance, Production or Theatre.
2. A series of one and a half hour seminars, in which practical examples of the art forms will be viewed, and ways discussed of how to view them in relation to their form and their intentions. All first year Performing Arts students will attend these seminars and a seminar group will consist of representatives from each training area.
This subject includes an embedded program in academic literacy skills of analysis, discussion, essay writing, research and information retrieval.
Intended learning outcomes
This subject will:
- provide a comprehensive overview of arts forms (specifically, dance, production and theatre), and enable students to contextualise their own work within its larger historical and theoretical framework;
- introduce new ways of viewing arts practice, in order to deepen appreciation of the work of practitioners;
- encourage and facilitate discussion amongst students from different training courses, to enable them to understand, appreciate and learn from the work of other artists;
- develop an appreciation and understanding of the aspects of different artistic languages and the specific materials with which artists work
Generic skills
• On completing this subject students will be able to:
• understand how to place their own practice within a wider historical (political, social, aesthetic) context;
• discuss work with other practitioners in a constructive and informed manner;
• lead a discussion and to present ideas articulately and clearly;
• listen and respond to the ideas of others without pre-judgment.
• understand research practices as a result of preparing materials for online discussion and essays;
• present opinions and analysis in classroom discussion;
• argue clearly and logically as a result of the planning and writing of essays;
• utilise effective library research skills, including the development of search strategies to find information from a variety of quality information resources, including online databases, books, journals, internet, and a variety of multimedia-rich resources;
• demonstrate effective time-management skills.
Last updated: 3 November 2022