DRAM40010

Learning Outcomes:

Students will:
- be able to define and critique key questions in the discipline of drama and performance studies
- develop skills in performance analysis using a variety of theoretical frameworks
- evaluate and critique drama and performance in coherent oral and written presentations that reflect postgraduate academic standards of bibliographic reference
- formulate research questions and arguments, and identify relevant research sources, including electronic resources, and rank them qualitatively
- engage in primary and secondary research
- demonstrate an understanding of the ethics of academic research.

Indicative Module Content:

Performance Analysis & Research Methods: Phenomenology, Semiotics
Space, Scenography, and Performance
Dramaturgies
Theatre and Performance Historiography
Performance Analysis and Gender
Theatre and Materialism

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Students will attend performances and undertake performance analysis, engage in critical reading, writing and reflective learning, and undertake research.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Learning Requirements:

English language proficiency
GPA or Postgraduate admission

Learning Exclusions:

n/a

Learning Recommendations:

n/a

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Students will receive written feedback post-assessment. Students will received individual feedback during the semester.

McAuley, Gay. “Performance Analysis: Theory and Practice.” In About Performance, No. 4, 1998: 1-12.
States, Bert O. Great Reckonings in Little Rooms: On the Phenomenology of Theater. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1985.
Knowles, Richard P. How Theatre Means. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2014.
Elaine Aston and George Savona Theatre as a Sign System A Semiotics of Text and Performance. London: Routledge, 1991).
McAuley, Gay. Space and Performance: Making Meaning in the Theatre. Ann Arbour: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Howard, Pamela. What is Scenography? London: Routledge, 2002.
Patrice Pavis, Analyzing performance: Theater, Dance, and Film
Postlewait, Thomas, The Cambridge introduction to theatre historiography, Cambridge, CUP, 2009.
Sue-Ellen Case, Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre. London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. 40-53.
Knowles, Ric. Reading the Material Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 9-23.

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