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Industry Internships and Placements (DRAM90016)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 37.5On Campus (Southbank)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Overview
Availability | Semester 1 (Early-Start) |
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Fees | Look up fees |
This subject provides a direct opportunity for students to work in an industry setting that underpins and is relevant to their directing practice and/or research trajectory towards their final independent project.
The subject allows students to choose from local, national and international placements. The details of the experience, its content and interface will align with the individual student’s aims in both their developing practice and the research direction towards their final independent project and exegesis.
It will involve the following possibilities:
- Placement or Assistant Director on existing Victorian College of the Arts & Melbourne Conservatorium of Music productions or projects (Theatre, Music Theatre, Opera, Centre for Cultural Partnerships); or
- Local theatre or community arts organisations; or
- International institutions and companies.
The educational and practice/research aims of the subject are the same for all students, but the type of experience, content and ultimate structure of the subject will be determined by the nature of the interface the student has planned through preparatory tutorials. Each student will have a supervisor who will support them through planning, preparation, and the writing-up phase following the placement.
The structure of the subject will involve:
- Meetings, in person or virtually, with the industry partner;
- Occasional academic supervision before, during and after the placement to be determined in consultation with the subject coordinator, and participation in seminars as required.
- An intensive placement within the performing arts industry;
- Documentation of this placement through journal writing and archiving of relevant materials;
- A presentation of the placement to the cohort in a group forum after the completion of the project;
- Final reflective/critical essay.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- demonstrate experience, and developing research and practice skills, in an industry setting;
- identify areas of specialisation in practice and research;
- show advanced skills of reflection & analysis of artistic practice;
- understand intercultural concepts and cultural interface;
- identify and set up local/ national/ international linkages;
- demonstrate an advanced understanding of the critical issues in the field of research methodologies in researching performance;
- demonstrate imaginative and creative communication and presentation skills in the delivery of a research proposal and research presentations;
- identify and undertake a research methodology appropriate to their discipline and project;
- show an advanced understanding of the critical issues in the field of research methodologies in researching performance.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- use a range of research tools and methodologies;
- work independently;
- communicate effectively;
- solve problems;
- interpret and analyse;
- develop the capacity for critical thinking;
- organise and manage time;
- understand the relationship with, and responsibility to, the cultural environment;
- work with respect for intellectual integrity, intellectual property and for the ethics of research and scholarship.
Last updated: 3 February 2023
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
Contemporary theatre and performance work nationally and internationally.
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 February 2023
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Proposal of placement and research question
| Early in the teaching period | 10% |
Individual oral presentation (3000 word equivalent)
| Late in the teaching period | 20% |
Documentation of project through journal and archiving relevant material
| 3 weeks after placement | 20% |
Critical essay with reference to journal/documentation
| During the assessment period | 50% |
Last updated: 3 February 2023
Dates & times
- Semester 1 (Early-Start)
Coordinator Kat Henry Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 72 hours Total time commitment 510 hours Pre teaching start date 4 January 2021 Pre teaching requirements The pre-teaching period may include preparation for, and commencement of, industry placements. Teaching period 1 March 2021 to 30 May 2021 Last self-enrol date 15 January 2021 Census date 31 March 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 7 May 2021 Assessment period ends 25 June 2021
Last updated: 3 February 2023
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Off-campus study
This subject has an overseas component
Students may undertake a work integrated learning experience via an optional overseas industry placement. Students may be eligible for financial assistance; or the Overseas Help Loan (OS-HELP Loans).
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Theatre (Directing)
Last updated: 3 February 2023