Project Rationale &amp; Evaluation (2,500 words)

Rationale and Evaluation

Investigation of Cultural Perspectives: Independent Practical Research Project

Practical Research Project

In this module you will embark on an independent practice-as-research study, encouraged to demonstrate your ability to work independently and assume responsibility on a personal project over an extended period of time. You will choose a specific discipline, platform and mode of presentation in which you will capture your research. This may include examples such as: 

* Staged performance 
* Play reading 
* Script submission 
* Short film 

You will demonstrate an awareness of the cultural and historical contexts associated with the project and respond, through practice, to an appropriate research question, be encouraged to create a timetable of work and to take responsibility for arranging meetings with your project tutor/supervisor on a regular basis for formative critical responses on the development of the project. This encourages independent learning, organisation and self-reliance. You are assessed on your practical presentation, including the submission of supporting documentation. You will be assisted to explore, examine and analyse a range of critical/theoretical models in a practical context appropriate to the demands of the chosen material. The written discourse will investigate and support your notions and discoveries, relating to the research question and the challenges/solutions encountered in the relation between theory and practice. It will document progress of the project and demonstrate a capacity for critical reflection and analysis in the engagement within the theoretical framework. 

You will be allocated regular tutorials for consultation with your specialist tutor. This time can be used in a variety of ways during the course of the module with personal tutors providing verbal and written feedback on a work-in-progress logbook, as well as practical support, to aid you to meet your project outcome. Aims and objectives will be set down in the logbook and reviewed at each meeting. You will be reminded about good scholarly practice and bibliographical conventions as well as accessing learning resources. 

Ongoing formative feedback is embedded in the module and the tutor will be available to give guidance and feedback throughout the preliminary stages of the project.

Cultural Perspectives III: Practical Project (Optional) - 6521ACT

Cultural Perspectives III: Practical Project (Optional)

Practically realise aesthetic, socio-cultural, contextual and critical perspectives in emergent live/recorded performance practice

Critically evaluate the creation of a contemporary work, isolating working methods, technical approaches and concepts in performance

Synthesise the coordination and management of an interdisciplinary creative/performance product within a conceptual framework

Synthesise independent research skills, formulate original ideas and negotiate an argument according to appropriate performance platforms in the creation of an original work