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CAPA3900

Performance Exercise 2

10 Units 3000 Level Course

Available in 2012

Callaghan CampusSemester 2
OurimbahSemester 1

Previously offered in 2013

This course offers recognition and credit to students for work undertaken as participants in a major departmental performance project. This course is only offered internally and is equivalent to a 3000-level applied Drama course.

Objectives
1. To develop an understanding of and sensitivity to performance practices within a context of professional values.
2. To develop communication skills and personal confidence through the process of creative collaboration in a performance exercise.
3. To develop a critical ability to analyse and evaluate the creative experience.
4. To acquire an in-depth knowledge of significant performance and theatrical practices through personal involvement.
Content
This is a fully assessable course which offers recognition and credit to students for work undertaken as major participants in a performance project. This may take many forms: student or staff generated productions, a series of workshops, a practice-based research project, a devised performance, a community-based project, etc. The course may entail concentrated periods of work during the semester in preparation for performance.
Replacing Course(s)
DRAM3900 Performance Exercise 2
Transition
Students who have successfully completed DRAM3900 Performance Exercise 2 may not enrol into CAPA3900 Performance Exercise 2.
Industrial Experience
0
Assumed Knowledge
DRAM1010 and DRAM1020 or ARTC1420
Modes of Delivery
Internal Mode
Teaching Methods
Tutorial
Assessment Items
Essays / Written Assignments
Critical analysis to be completed and handed in to the course supervisor by no later than week 14 of the semester in which the project is undertaken. This takes the form of an essay (2000 words) analysing the performance project and the production process involved. Criteria will be determined on the basis of the project's nature and agreed upon before the process commences (40%).
Group/tutorial participation and contribution
Assessed after the completion of the performance project. This assessment element is not based on an evaluation of talent but on such criteria as: supportiveness of the group process, readiness to undertake diverse tasks, openness to new experience and ideas, inventiveness and imaginaion in approaching work (40%).
Journal
To be handed in after the completion of the project. This takes the form of a daily record of work undertaken and the student's personal contribution - approximately 1000 words (20%).
Contact Hours
Tutorial: for 3 hour(s) per Week for Full Term

Timetables

2012 Course Timetables for CAPA3900