Creative Project

Code

MLAC3179

School

Media, Languages and Cultures

Level

3

Credits

40

Semesters

Full Year Malaysia

Summary

Target Students

:Students of the International Communications Studies with Performing Arts pathway. Available as subsidiary to all Year 3 students, including those of other schools. Available to JYA/Erasmus students

Classes

• One 2-hour workshop each week for 12 weeks
• One 1-hour seminar each week for 10 weeks
• One 2-hour lecture each week for 5 weeks

Lecture: 10 hrs (2 hrs/week over 5 weeks) Seminar/Workshop: 10 hrs (1 hrs/week over 10 weeks) Project: 2 hrs (4 sessions of ½ hour of 1:1 supervision)

Assessment

• 50% Creative Portfolio: The portfolio should show evidence of the agreed Creative Output. Depending on the focus area selected (FA1- Performance, FA2- Composition, Film Making, Translation and Creative Writing, FA3- Direction/Management), the portfolio should include:FA1- A video recording featuring in full the student participation in the agreed performance.FA2- A soft copy of the output (Translation, Creative Writing) or a video/audio recording or the output, plus a soft copy of scores, script and relevant accompanying materials (Composition, Film Making).FA3- A video recording of the output, plus a log detailing student participation in the event.The assessment criteria will measure originality, creativity, technical assessment and how informed the output is relation to the current artistic and cultural context.
• 50% Essay: (5000-7000) The essay should show critical analysis of their own participation in the project, and discuss the socio-cultural issues associated with the output.

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

A2. Knowledge and robust critical understanding of the range of theories, approaches, concepts and principles that constitute the subject area of International Communications Studies and an appreciation of the development and trajectories of the subject area as an academic field of enquiry.

A3. The ability to evaluate and discriminate between particular theories and approaches regarding their suitability to concrete situations, events, texts and practices.

A4. An appreciation of the ethical and political dimensions of the range of theories, approaches, concepts and principles that constitute the subject area of International Communications Studies especially concerning questions of cultural difference.

A5. A sense of the ambiguities, uncertainties and limits of methodologies in terms of how this impacts on the production of knowledge.

A7. An appreciation of the different cultural, artistic, historic an aesthetic dimensions of the different cultural expressions associated to Performing Arts, and their position as global phenomena.

A8. An understanding of the dynamics of the Performing Arts Industries.

Intellectual Skills

B1. Research, gather and analyse materials from a wide range of sources, including paper, electronic and audio-visual media.

B2. Critically evaluate theories, arguments, assumptions, qualitative and quantitative data using appropriate approaches and vocabularies to form judgments and conclusions.

B3. Devise and sustain arguments and analyses, applying the methods, theories and techniques learned to concrete situations, texts, events and contexts.

B4. Discern the costs and benefits of particular theoretical approaches and methodologies to solving problems in particular social and cultural contexts.

B5. Reflect upon the limits of their own arguments, judgments and conclusions with reference to academic and/or professional issues, debates and conventions.

B6. Listen with discrimination.

B7. Perform information retrieval and textual re-organisation involved in comprehension and creative work.

Professional Practical Skills

C1. The ability to apply interdisciplinary theories and concepts to real-world problems and phenomena.

C2. Present work in conformity with academic conventions.

C3. Self awareness, openness and sensitivity to diversity in terms of a range of people and cultures.

C4. Effective performance within a team environment, including leadership, team building, influencing and project management skills.

C5. The ability to conduct independent research into real-world cross-disciplinary issues.

C6. The ability to create original, valuable and culturally informed outputs.

C7. The ability to present own creative outputs before an audience.

Transferable (key) skills

D1. Communicate effectively, whether through the manipulation of image and/or text, drawing upon a wide range of research skills, subject knowledge, theories and relevant technical concepts, distinguishing the different discursive registers required by particular readers and audiences.

D2. Appreciate the complex basis of communicative understandings and misunderstandings in order to formulate arguments, judgments and suggestions cogently and intelligently.

D4. Reflect upon their own cultural commitments and participatory practices in relation to those of others and appreciate the ethical and political basis of such considerations.

D5. Work in flexible, creative ways exercising initiative, self-discipline and sensitivity to others.

D6. Produce work which demonstrates planning and organisational skills, in particular, the ability to respond to deadlines, negotiate with others, and manage resources.

D7. Demonstrate confidence in exploring new and emerging issues drawing upon variety of academic and non-academic resources, and in acquiring new competencies and skills.

D8. Work effectively with others.

Conveners

• Sergio Camacho