Master of Writing for Performance (MC-WRIPERF) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of the course, students will:

• have significantly advanced their skills and expertise in aspects fundamental to their primary arts practice – writing for performance – such that they would be ready to work at a professional level;
• be able to conceptualise, realise and present original writing for performance and/or performance oriented projects in diverse forms;
• have developed the capacity to evaluate, discriminate and make informed choices as part of writing practice within aesthetic domains;
• have developed their skills in collaborating with other theatre artists and diverse communities;
• be able to promote the exploration of writing for performance as a communicative mode;
• demonstrate highly developed problem solving abilities and flexibility of approach;
• have developed the skills of articulating the ideas and processes inherent in their creative work within the context of relevant artistic discourse and research;
• demonstrate a working knowledge of quantitative and qualitative Research processes.

Generic skills

On completion of this course, students will:

• be able to work individually and collaboratively with fellow artists in the realisation of a creative project, informed by self understanding and demonstrating highly developed interpersonal skills;
• collaborate with others in group projects informed by an awareness of relevant professional skills and practices;
• exhibit leadership capacity, including a willingness and ability to engage in constructive peer discourse and contribute by acting as a mentor to the development of others;
• demonstrate an understanding of their arts practice within the context of wider aesthetic and social domains;
• demonstrate knowledge of research paradigms, sufficient to allow them to advance to higher levels of academic research in praxis and theory;
• work with an awareness and practical skills in advanced communications technologies and receptiveness to the expanding opportunities of the digital age;
• exhibit a profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity and for the ethics of professional creative practice;
• be able to contribute through leadership, research, performance development and/or pedagogy to Australian culture in the arts, in particular those aspects of culture and society that lie outside the dominant paradigms.

Graduate attributes

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