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DRAM40570

Academic Year 2024/2025

Creative Project (DRAM40570)

Subject:
Drama Studies
College:
Arts & Humanities
School:
English, Drama & Film
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
30
Module Coordinator:
Professor Eamonn Jordan
Trimester:
Summer
Mode of Delivery:
Blended
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

This Creative Project module has two components: the completion and submission of a substantial creative writing project and a critical reflection document.
Students will write a Short Play, Radio Play or a Screenplay that is about 30-45 minutes in length, work that showcases their professional talent. It can be writing rooted in more traditional forms or it can be experimental in orientation. This project is developed to a point where the scripted work is ready to be submitted for consideration by a theatre/film production company. (There are no readings/recordings of work envisaged at this stage of the programme, but consideration will be given to these possibilities in the future)

The critical reflection document (5000 words) has four main components: some discussion of the research, writing, drafting and editing phases of the creative project, deliberation on the work in relation to the genres and/or traditions within which the student is writing, a broader reflection that contextualises the work in this contemporary moment, and, finally, some consideration given to the challenges the work may pose during rehearsal, or production, for example, in terms of technical demands, performance style/idiom challenges, and also how the work may place particular demands on audiences.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this module Students have:
• Proposed, presented, and discussed a creative writing project
• Engaged analytically and critically with their work and immersed themselves in the drafting and revisioning processes
• Completed a substantial piece of creative writing and critical reflection
• Enhanced skills in relation to how one responds to and reflects on peer and staff feedback
• Utilized appropriate critical and theoretical vocabulary in discussions around various theatre, performance and broadcast media
• Reflected on the different performance requirements of various media
• Deliberated on the relationship between text and performance/production, and recognized the challenges a script could face in rehearsal/production and the difficulties posed in staging such work before an audience
• Considered and contextualised work in relation to the genre in which they are writing
• Built on best practice in creative writing and self-reflection, by discovering how to ask the best possible questions of their own practices and processes

Indicative Module Content:

Students will write a research proposal, submit drafts and work in progress, meet with your supervisor and respond to their feedback. You will have a substantial piece of writing (30-45 minutes in length) and written a reflection document.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Autonomous Student Learning

590
Lectures

10
Total

600

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The module requires a great deal of autonomous learning. Students need to engage with the their supervisor, regularly and in a timely fashion.
The use of AI is prohibited.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Recommendations:

All module should be completed


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Individual Project: Students write 1 a piece of creative writing and 2 write a critical reflection document Week 15 Graded Yes
100
 Yes

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

There is no specific reading list.
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