Understanding Performance
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ENGL4420 | English | 4 | N/A | April Full Year UK, Full Year UK, January Full Year UK |
- Code
- ENGL4420
- School
- English
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- N/A
- Semesters
- April Full Year UK, Full Year UK, January Full Year UK
Summary
This pod presents students with key contexts and frameworks for performance in order to enable a critical exploration of the changing relationships between the making and reception of drama, theatre and performance. Students engage with key thinkers and practitioners such as Schechner, Turner and Goffman, and will have the opportunity to develop a critical vocabulary and framework for analysing performance. The focus throughout is on the multiple potential relationships between text, stage, performance and audience in a variety of contexts. As well as working with a wide variety of material contained within the pod, students will be encouraged to draw upon their own encounters with performance.
Target Students
Students registered on the School of English online masters scheme.
Assessment
- 100% Participation: Student Participation
Assessed by end of designated period
Educational Aims
This module comprises an optional component in the following pathways: Applied English, Drama and Performance, and English Literature. As such, it contributes in its specific aims to the programme-level coverage of these pathways.Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate a nuanced understanding of the changing relationships between text, stage, performance, and audience in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Analyse a range of different performance events and contexts informed by current scholarship in Performance Studies.
Apply an appropriate critical vocabulary to the evaluation of a range of performance practices, their effects, and reception.
Demonstrate knowledge and skills acquired to the appropriate disciplinary and professional standard.
Assimilate and present subject-specific material in an appropriate format (assessed within the ‘Assessment Portfolio’ 1, 2 or 3).