Unit information: Tutorial 2 in 2013/14

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Unit name Tutorial 2
Unit code DRAM11010
Credit points 10
Level of study C/4
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
Unit director Professor. Hindson
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

Performance Forms and Analysis Film and Television Forms and Analysis
Co-requisites

None
School/department Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television
Faculty Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

This unit provides Single and Joint Honours students with the opportunity to focus on and develop their analytical skills. At the beginning of the unit students will agree to a schedule of performances, films and television programmes. Small tutorial groups will then meet fortnightly throughout the Teaching Block to discuss and analyse the works that they have seen together.

This unit: - extends students' understandings of key areas in the study and analysis of performance and screen media; - develops critical understandings of the crucial components of performance and screen media through viewing contemporary works in circulation; - utilises conceptual vocabularies and theoretical frameworks for the creative analysis of contemporary works in circulation; - develops understandings of performance and screen media in an historical context.

Intended Learning Outcomes

  • students will be able to articulate their understandings of key areas in the study and analysis of performance and screen media in an oral presentation context;
  • students will demonstrate developing critical understandings of the crucial components of performance and screen media in the context of contemporary works in circulation;
  • students will deploy conceptual vocabularies and theoretical frameworks in their creative analyses of contemporary works in circulation;
  • students will be able to place contemporary works in an historical context.

Teaching Information

Small-group tutorials (max 6 students)

Assessment Information

Assessment: Student presentations in weeks 21 & 23; students to audio record presentations and submit to tutorial leader. Each student will present twice. Each presentation is worth 50%. Both presentations will be 10 minutes long, followed by 5 minutes of questions from the group and will be assessed according to published criteria, and addressing the specific elements of the learning outcomes:

  • argument: the coherence and logic of the presentation;
  • evidence: the relevance of the information used to support the argument;
  • interpretation: the extent to which the argument is explored;
  • presentation skills: the extent to which the chosen means of communicating the argument are appropriate and engaging;
  • time management: the extent to which the presentation explores its argument within the given time-frame - responses to questions

The unit director will moderate this unit, based on established moderating guidelines.

Reading and References

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