Awards
Target Award
Award Description:Master of Arts - MA
Alternative Exit
Alternative Exit
Programme Offerings
Full-Time
F2F-JMU-SEP
Educational Aims of the Course
1. To provide a learning environment for the promotion of advanced scholarship related to mastery of craft in making new theatre and its allied performing arts; 2. To produce skilled, self-managed and collaborative artists in the creation, development and presentation of Making New Theatre performances, either through original work or in the framing of extant material in the context of contemporary developments in creative practice; 3. To encourage the acquisition and development of individual knowledge, understanding, craft, and creative practice related to the current discourse in the practices of making of new theatre; 4. To contribute through regional, national and international platforms to the development of making new theatre scholarship allied to creative practice.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding and original application of specific craft related to Making New Theatre creation and performance;
2.
Contribute at professional level to the creation of expressive and affective theatre, through the application and synthesis of advanced understanding of creative, interpretive and performance processes and contexts;
3.
Critically reflect on, and appropriately and successfully utilize, a range of contemporary and relevant critical conceptual frameworks and methodologies for the coherent and informed evaluation of the work of others, and analytical reflection on their own work;
4.
Critically reflect on and apply a detailed and professionally informed understanding of entrepreneurship in the creative practice of making new theatre as a context for personal practice and continuing professional development;
5.
Demonstrate advanced levels of informed independence of systematic and creative thought and judgment;
6.
Consistently display the independent learning ability that is required for continuing professional development;
7.
Work independently towards the completion of a substantial project that demonstrates initiative and personal responsibility, including decision making and problem solving in unexpected contexts.
Teaching, Learning and Assessment
The knowledge and understanding required for mastery of craft is acquired via skill based and exploratory workshops, lectures, seminars, production work and discursive sessions in tutorial. This knowledge and understanding is assessed via coursework, including group and individual practical work supported by evaluative statements/reports, oral presentations, contextualising essays and viva voce, including self and peer assessment where appropriate. Negotiated content of learning activities and assessment forms part of the ongoing discourse of student development. Intellectual (thinking) skills are promoted through teaching in lectures, practical workshop/laboratory sessions, seminar group discussion and tutorial and are assessed by coursework, essay, oral presentation and viva. A substantial part of the programme is given over to independent negotiated individual and collaborative practical creative or performance projects. A final Dissertation and Project embodies the programme's focus on practice as research output with up to 75% of the weighting of the assessment being able to be practical process/performance based. Visiting lecturers and the contribution of professional theatre artists will make a significant contribution to the programme. Assessment methods and requirements are specified for each module on the respective Canvas module page
Programme Structure
Programme Structure Description
An alternative award of Postgraduate Diploma in Making New Theatre will be offered to students who do not achieve a pass in, or do not attempt, the final 60 credits module but have gained 120 credits within the programme An alternative award of Postgraduate Certificate in Making New Theatre will … For more content click the Read More button below.
Structure
Level 7
Entry Requirements
Alternative qualifications considered
Other international requirements
HECoS Code(s)
(CAH25-02) performing arts