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Master of Dance (MC-DANCE) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
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Intended learning outcomes
Through a balance of presentations of creative work and theoretical subjects the key learning outcomes are:
- An understanding of corporeal, spatial and temporal relationships in the constructing and presenting performance;
- Ability to develop and apply a breadth of choreographic, directing and performance strategies in the creation and performance of artistic work;
- Advanced capacity to plan and implement a development process and coordinate the creation and realisation of artistic materials;
- Advanced capacity to collaborate with others;
- Ability to work with creative integrity and flexibility both individually and within a creative team in the creation and organisation of multi-disciplinary work;
- Advanced ability to understand the nature of contemporary performance practice and situate their work and artistic concerns within it;
- The ability to communicate ideas and aesthetic values in artistic modes involving movement, sound, light and moving image;
- The capacity to locate practical projects in a larger cultural context and in relation to related practices, theory and philosophical frameworks;
- Consolidated practice-led research experience resulting in skills in research methodologies plus the capacity to gather and organise related documentation;
- Critical, analytical, and conceptual skills that lay the foundation for further higher degree research.
Generic skills
- work across disciplines, create and organise a range of aesthetic material
- work as a leader showing initiative and openness
- communicate orally and in writing
- collaborate and be flexible
- use a range of research tools and methodologies
- lead others in the skills of problem solving
- interpret and analyse with a capacity for critical thinking
- reflect and evaluate to employ innovation methodologies
- network, broker and mentor
Graduate attributes
- Advanced skills and techniques applicable to the discipline
- A capacity to engage where appropriate with issues in contemporary society
- The capacity to value and participate in projects which require team work
- An appreciation of the design, conduct and reporting of original research
- An ability to evaluate and synthesise the research and professional literature in the discipline
- A capacity to articulate knowledge and understanding in oral and written presentations
- An advanced understanding of the changing knowledge base in the specialist area
- Well developed problem-solving abilities in the discipline area characterised by flexibility of approach
- An understanding of the significance and value of arts-based knowledge to the wider community
Last updated: 12 November 2021