Module Information
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Critical Reflection 3000 Words | 20% |
| Semester Assessment | Performance or creative output of 30-40 mins. | 50% |
| Semester Assessment | Presentation of Work in Progress (10-15 mins) with a 15 minute Q&A 30 Minutes | 30% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Performance or creative output of 30-40 mins. | 50% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Critical Reflection 3000 Words | 20% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Presentation of Work in Progress (10-15 mins) with a 15 minute Q&A | 30% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Demonstrate successful project design and application in the field of practice-based research
Demonstrate mastery of the strategies and operational procedures involved in formulating, planning, managing and realizing a research investigation through practical work leading to a substantial output
Demonstrate advanced skills - in a range of conceptual and representational practices and procedures - to achieve well-defined and conceptualized creative outcomes in addressing political and/or aesthetic issues
Critically evaluate these outcomes in relation to contemporary knowledge, practice and research traditions in the appropriate scholarly fields
Brief description
This module enables students to complete their MA with a sustained and detailed practice-based research enquiry. Students will identify and pursue research questions that are addressed through their practical work and will create a substantial creative output, with supporting critical reflection and evaluation. Students will identify and pursue research questions that are addressed through their practical work and will realise a creative output of professional standard that provides an opportunity for a rigorous critical examination of the processes of performance or scenographic practice and their theoretical implications. The topic, rationale and practice-based methodology for the research project will be identified with the help of a research proposal, and students will work with the support of a supervisor. The form of the creative output will be developed through an assessed work in progress presentation. The practice-based research project can be submitted as an individually conceived and developed performance work or as a collaboratively conceived and developed performance work.
Content
Students will be supported with 4 x 1 hour group seminars which will help them develop and plan their practice-based projects. They will also be supported by six 1-hour individual supervision tutorials as they undertake their research.
The group seminars will cover: planning and executing your practice-based research project; planning the technical aspects of your practice-based research project; documenting your practice-based research project; and, reflecting on your practice-based research project.
Projects can be submitted as an individually conceived and developed performance work or as a collaboratively conceived and developed performance work. Where the submitted work involves joint collaboration, each student must identify their contribution to the work (which will be confirmed by a statement signed by each collaborator), provided that it is possible to apply to the work the same criteria used in judging independent work. The length of the performance will be negotiated as part of the proposal process. The student will have to provide sufficient evidence for the examiners to make judgements against the criteria of assessment. This may require the submission of carefully selected and presented supplementary material.
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | N/A |
| Communication | Students will be expected to discuss their research project and its progress with their supervisor (in tutorial sessions). They will practice, through the proposal, how to write in a clear and effective way. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Students will be expected to develop their motivation, organization and time-management skills, by planning their work on their project, whilst keeping in regular contact with their supervisors. Students will develop relevant skills in devising, making and performing as appropriate to their projects. |
| Information Technology | Students will be encouraged to use the web and the numerous e-learning resources in the library in order to search for and locate journal articles and other primary materials that have relevance to their research projects. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Students will be encouraged to develop their research, making, learning and organizational skills. These attributes will feed into their development as effective researchers, which will be particularly suited for an academic career or a career within the field of the performing arts. |
| Problem solving | This element is developed through students considering methodologies appropriate for their research project topic. They will learn about practical issues and demands associated with employing such methods through the seminars. By problematizing the perception of what constitutes good and effective research, the students will have to think differently about their research projects and the questions and issues they will need to tackle in order to plan and carry out their research. |
| Research skills | This element is developed through students identifying, guided through seminars, the most appropriate research methods and procedures to employ in order to answer their research questions and then applying these in a clear and effective way throughout their research projects. These skills are also developed through research of relevant literature and exemplar practices and identifying the key literature that will inform and academically ground their work. |
| Subject Specific Skills | See QAA Dance, Drama and Performance Subject Benchmark Statement (Version 2019). |
| Team work | Students will test their research projects on their peers, who will comment, thus enriching the learning process. Students will be expected to work with their supervisor, to arrange tutorials and plan their research work, to share and negotiate ideas and opinions on methods and relevant practices and procedures, and to reflect on and share ideas about their developing research projects. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7