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Research and New Performance Writing (THTR70006)
Graduate coursework level 7Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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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 completion of this subject, students should 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: 31 January 2024
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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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10-minute individual oral presentation followed by a 1000-word submission in written form
| End of the teaching period | 25% |
Written task
| Mid teaching period | 25% |
Written task
| Late in the teaching period | 50% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Coordinator Raimondo Cortese Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 36 hours of performance writing seminars Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 28 February 2022 to 29 May 2022 Last self-enrol date 11 March 2022 Census date 31 March 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 6 May 2022 Assessment period ends 24 June 2022
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
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Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Theatre (Writing)
Last updated: 31 January 2024