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Applied Dramaturgy (DRAM90011)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 1
Dr Alyson Campbell
Overview
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This subject connects students to industry professionals through a series of 10 master classes with leading dramaturgs, literary managers and writers. Each will outline their understanding of dramaturgy, and their approaches to their various roles and tasks as a dramaturg. This will run alongside a series of seminars with focused readings and discussions on contemporary dramaturgical practices. This organizational and theoretical knowledge will be applied to the practice of working with new writing in workshops with Raimondo Cortese, on the development of work by the students in the Masters in Writing for Performance. Through these three strands the subject places the work of the dramaturg in its socio-cultural context, and positions the students as future leaders in the field in Australia.
Intended learning outcomes
- Be able to engage with the contested and complex term ‘dramaturgy’;
- Enhanced and expanded dramaturgical consciousness;
- Knowledge of a wide range of dramaturgical practices and philosophies in Australia and internationally;
- Theoretical and practical understanding of the socio-cultural context of dramaturgy and a commitment to the way performance sits in relation to wider culture and society;
- Industry connections and networks;
- Practical understanding of working on a piece of new writing;
- Ability to undertake dramaturgical analysis of own and others’ performance.
Generic skills
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Upon completion of this subject students should be able to:
- Create and organise aesthetic material
- Use a range of research tools and methodologies
- Solve problems
- Lead others in the skills of problem solving
- Interpret and analyse
- Develop the capacity for critical thinking
- Work as a leader showing initiative and openness
- Work collaboratively
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
2000 word essay, Late Semester, - 40%
Presentation (individual 15 mins, 1500 word equiv), Week 6, - 30%
Practice, Week 12, - 30%
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Alyson Campbell Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 96 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 4 March 2019 to 2 June 2019 Last self-enrol date 15 March 2019 Census date 31 March 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 May 2019 Assessment period ends 28 June 2019 Semester 1 contact information
Dr Alyson Campbell
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Katalin Trencsenyi and Bernadette Cochrane (eds) New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice, (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014).
Mary Luckhurst, Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Hans-Thies Lehmann, Postdramatic Theatre, (Abingdon & NY: Routledge, 2006)
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Dramaturgy
Last updated: 3 November 2022