EA725-7-SU-LO:
Dissertation
2023/24
East 15 Acting School
East15 (Loughton) Campus
Summer
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Monday 22 April 2024
Friday 28 June 2024
60
06 April 2021
Requisites for this module
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MA W40E12 Advanced Professional Theatre Practice,
MA W40E24 Advanced Professional Theatre Practice
This module is the culmination of the MA Advanced Professional Theatre Practice, allowing students to develop and present a substantial dissertation.
This module is an opportunity for students to develop ideas and practices that have emerged in their studies within the context of a dissertation. This module facilitates the production of an independently developed and finished thesisinformed by research and reflecting on the students' previous professional experience and learning through the course. To define the project and its aims, students will work independently and alongside a tutor (who will be assigned as mentor for the module).
The module will consider key aspects of how research plays a crucial role in performance, and how a performance can be the output of a creative's research. Students will be exposed to a wide range of approaches and methods through the study of performance documentation and an examination of the theories that underlie the practice of creating new and innovative work. While the emphasis will be on individual process, through an on-line forum the class group will serve a vital role for feedback, critique, and ongoing discussion into the various facets of practice-based research.
This module aims to enable students to apply a range of the knowledge, skills and approaches explored in the course of the taught modules to the creation of a substantial piece of independent work.
On completion of the module, successful students will be able to:
1. Design an extended written project.
2. Select and apply appropriate analytical and theoretical approaches to the handling of the chosen material.
3. Offer a sophisticated and insightful rationale for the value of the project within their own professional practice and development.
4. Present their work in concisely and with authority to a professional audience of viewers or readers.
* Writing a research question
* Developing a research practice for practical outputs
* Project planning
* Frameworks of ideas
* Developing and selecting material
* Critical reflection, editing and register
* Career development
* Skills as required for the project (may include, for example, extended writing; archival research; performance-making; documentation processes)
Online tutorials with an allocated module mentor (assigned from East 15’s staff); student online forum sessions on methodology, planning, and use of resources; intensive teaching block, participation in rehearsals
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
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No external examiner information available for this module.
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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