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Research and New Performance Writing (THTR70006)
Graduate coursework level 7Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
About this subject
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- Assessment
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Contact information
Semester 1
Faculty of the VCA and Music Student Centre
Ground Floor, Elisabeth Murdoch Building (Bldg 860)
Southbank Campus
234 St Kilda Road, Southbank, 3006
Enquiries
Phone: 13 MELB (13 6352)
Email: 13MELB@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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This seminar subject is designed to enrich writers' understanding of investigation and research in the context of extended writing projects. Students will engage with a range of contemporary Australian and international trends in writing for performance, focusing on practices of investigation and reflection, with a view to structural and formal innovation. Guest writers from a diverse range of contemporary contexts and communities in Australia will discuss their processes and approaches to the creation of new forms. The subject also focuses on different forms of inquiry, arts practice as research, and research into the arts, discussion and presentation of research by current practitioners/researchers, and detailed information sessions on library databases and resources, research grant applications, copyright and human ethics processes. Students examine research approaches in the larger context of social, cultural and post modernist perspectives.
Intended learning outcomes
On completing this subject students will be able to:
- demonstrate an ability to interpret and analyse writing for performance in the context of professional practice, and within both a broader cultural field and a body of contemporary and classical ideas;
- demonstrate the capacity to develop and design theoretical frameworks and research processes appropriate to writing projects involving new forms;
- demonstrate skills in the gathering and organisation of research materials;
- demonstrate an understanding of human ethics, copyright issues and the effective use of library databases and other resources;
- effectively document the creative process.
Generic skills
On completing this subject students will be able to:
• demonstrate the capacity to evaluate and synthesise data and other information;
• demonstrate an ability to access data and other information from a range of sources;
• demonstrate an advanced ability to discourse on artistic practice in the context of wider aesthetic, social and historical domains;
• demonstrate an ability to apply relevant research processes to specific cultural practice.
• demonstrate the ability to communicate in oral and written form;
• demonstrate the capacity for critical thinking.
Last updated: 3 November 2022