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Research and New Performance Writing (THTR90018)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)

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This 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.

The subject also focuses on different approaches to the creation of new forms, 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.

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: 6 November 2025