CAPA3001
10 units
3000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course introduces areas that are fundamental to the Creative and Performing Arts, including Theatre, Performance, Drama and Sound across a variety of contemporary cultural contexts. The course synthesises key ideas already developed in CAPA1001 and CAPA2001. Using various practical and technological resources, students will engage collaboratively in practical workshops and processes of group reflection, analysis, and aesthetic judgment towards the production of events and performances.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Newcastle City Precinct
- Semester 1 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Employ physical theatre skills and technologies for several small dramatic presentations;
2. Analyse critical approaches to the contemporary creative and performing arts;
3. Apply collaborative processes, critical analyses, aesthetic judgments and creative production skills to realise a performance event.
Content
In this course students will investigate:
- The role of existing and emerging technologies within the construction of meaning in contemporary creative production;
- A diverse range of critical approaches to the contemporary creative and performing arts;
- Critical relationships between processes of practical creative production and group critique in the making and judgment of events, performances, and artworks;
- Performance skills developed by internationally recognised acting teachers.
Assumed knowledge
CAPA1001 and CAPA2001.
Assessment items
Practical Demonstration: Practical Demonstration
Journal: Journal
Project: Group Project
Contact hours
Semester 1 - 2024 - Newcastle City Precinct
Lecture-1
- Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 6 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 6 week(s) starting in week 1
Workshop-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 7 week(s) starting in week 7
Course outline
- CAPA3001 - Semester 1, 2024 (Ncle) (PDF, 195.8 KB)
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.