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New Directions in Theatre Studies (ENGL40029)
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In this subject students will discover new paradigms in theatre and performance studies, guided by an expert in the field. At theatre’s core is an encounter between a performance and an audience. Recent scholarship on audiences and spectatorship rejects the binary of active doing and passive viewing, instead understanding audiences as performers with their own conventions and behaviours: applause, laughter, heckling, hissing, or throwing fruit, to name a few. Students will learn how these conventions shift across historical periods, contexts, and genres. They will examine idealisations and assumptions about spectatorship in seminal theories of performance and aesthetics and will evaluate the limitations and affordances of more empirical, data-driven approaches to studying audiences. Students will apply these ideas to live performance events as well as archival evidence. As part of this subject students will also consider audience as an aspect of writing, learning to position themselves as viewers, participants, and scholars.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Identify and analyse recent critical paradigms in theatre studies
- Recognise how these paradigms have emerged in particular historical and critical contexts
- Apply theoretical ideas to archival and live examples of performance
- Produce written and oral arguments about performance
- Communicate effectively in a team and individually
Generic skills
- Prepare and present their ideas verbally and in writing to an advanced level and in conformity to conventions of academic presentation
- Participate in discussion and group activities and be sensitive to the participation of others
- Apply creative and critical thinking in the analysis of artistic and scholarly works
- Manage time effectively in the completion of assessment tasks
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Corequisites
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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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A Short Exercise
| Week 3 | 10% |
A short essay
| Week 6 | 20% |
A final essay
| During the examination period | 70% |
Hurdle requirement: Hurdle: students are required to attend a minimum of 80% of classes in order to pass this subject and regular class participation is expected. | Throughout the semester | N/A |
Additional details
Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 2% per working day.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
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Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
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This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Graduate Diploma in Arts (Advanced) Course Bachelor of Arts (Degree with Honours)
Last updated: 31 January 2024