Master of Design for Performance (MC-DSNPERF) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course students will have developed:

• advanced technical and creative skills and understanding in design;
• understanding and use of theoretical frameworks to evaluate and critique specific elements used in the development of a performance, including but not limited to design;
• a capacity to evaluate, discriminate and make informed choices within both a pragmatic and artistic framework, as a senior member of the collaborative team;
• abilities to collaborate with other members of the design and performance team;
• an understanding and exploration of the performing arts as a communicative mode;
• an understanding and exploration of the potentials of diverse media in performance.

Generic skills

The Master of Fine Arts develops the following skills in its graduate researchers:

• the ability to engage in independent and contextually-informed artistic practice;
• an ability to initiate research projects and to formulate viable research questions;
• a demonstrated capacity to design, conduct and report independent and original research on a closely-defined project;
• an ability to manage time to maximise the quality of research;
• an understanding of the major contours of international research in the research area;
• a capacity for critical evaluation of relevant scholarly literature and artistic practice;
• well-developed and flexible problem-solving abilities appropriate to the discipline;
• the capacity to communicate effectively the results of research and scholarship by oral and written communication;
• an understanding of and facility with scholarly conventions in the discipline area;
• a profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of research and scholarship;
• a capacity to cooperate with other researchers;
• an ability to manage information effectively, including the application of computer systems and software where appropriate to the student's field of study