Drama, Theatre, and Performance

Code

MLAC1170

School

Media, Languages and Cultures

Level

1

Credits

20

Semesters

Full Year Malaysia

Summary

Target Students

Open for Performing Arts pathway SMLC students and ENGL students, space permitting

Classes

• One 2-hour workshop each week for 21 weeks
• One 1-hour lecture each week for 21 weeks

Assessment

• 40% Presentation: Autumn Semester workshop assignment, 2000 words
• 60% Exam (2-hour-30-minute): A 2 hours 30 minutes exam during the Spring Exam Period

Assessed by end of spring semester

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding of: 

• the issues of performance and analysis specific to drama, including some key elements in performance practice  

Intellectual Skills 

• Engage in close and logical analysis of texts and arguments (B1) 
• Think independently while giving due weight to the arguments of others and to reflect on their own critical practice (B2) 

Professional skills 

• analyse texts with an awareness of how circumstances of authorship, textual production, convention and audience affect what they communicate(C2) 
• the ability to construct and communicate an analysis of performance texts verbally and in writing (C4) 
• the ability to carry out research in a range of media and make use of that material (C5) 

Transferable skills 

• work productively with others (D1) 
• communicate effectively in writing (D2) 
• the ability to communicate effectively by oral presentation (D3) 
• reflect upon and assess their own progress, strengths and weaknesses (D6) 

Conveners

• Sergio Camacho