This module engages with critical and theoretical approaches that may well have been encountered at undergraduate level. These strategies will prove necessary in critically examining your own practice in later modules as well as enabling you to interrogate the work of contemporary arts practitioners.
You will be involved in the process of assessment, using the module criteria, and will also be required to evaluate your own learning on the course. Tutors and theatre practitioners will introduce case studies of contemporary work and research strategies, and as the module progresses you will use an increasing range of theoretical and practical skills to critically examine these models. You will undertake a range of assessment tasks and will receive formative advice and comments intended to assist you in completing these tasks successfully.
Research methodologies will focus on research into modes of practice, in documentation, in self-assessment, audience/spectator surveys and so forth, as well as providing the broader cultural landscape of practice as research. There are three core aims:
- learn about (PG) critical thinking, analysis, and academic writing.
- learn about (PG) research in The Arts: key methods and methodologies (tangible arts research models and templates/approaches).
- Apply learning to case study project.
