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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: WA Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Performance 2

  • Unit Code

    MTH2142

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     Y

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit continues the process of rehearsal and performance initiated in MTH1042, with the aim of permitting a synthesis of the various performance techniques studied in acting, singing, dancing and music classes. By the end of Semester Four of the BA (Musical Theatre) program, students should be able to translate successfully the process learnt at these classes into public performance.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MTH1042

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Begin to be confident expressing character via spoken expression.
  2. Demonstrate basic stagecraft, theatre technology, rehearsal techniques and overall theatre professionalism.
  3. Through workplace integrated learning opportunities, perform with confidence as an ensemble/chorus member.
  4. Use industry experience and an international outlook to evaluate and improve professional practice and performance.

Unit Content

  1. An evaluation will follow each production, at which staff involved and invited guests, will offer criticism and analysis of each student's contribution to the project over the rehearsal and performance period.
  2. Communicating successfully via the spoken voice and song.
  3. Rehearsal and performance of full-length musicals (fully staged) as well as plays, projects and performances from international repertoire and provided through workshop conditions and experience in industry environments.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Directed productions and supervised groupwork.

Assessment

GS4 GRADING SCHEMA 4 Used for undifferentiated pass/fail units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
TestPerformance pracs
TestPerformance in productions

Text References

  • ^ Specific reference works appropriate to the student's research, text study, and performance techniques, used in each production will be selected by the director and/or tutors involved with the production as the choice of each work is finalised.
  • Specific reference works appropriate to the student's research, text study, and performance techniques, used in each production will be selected by the director and/or tutors involved with the production as the choice of each work is finalised.

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: WA Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Performance 2

  • Unit Code

    MTH2142

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     Y

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit continues the process of rehearsal and performance initiated in MTH1042, with the aim of permitting a synthesis of the various performance techniques studied in acting, singing, dancing and music classes. By the end of Semester Four of the BA (Musical Theatre) program, students should be able to translate successfully the process learnt at these classes into public performance.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MTH1042

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Begin to be confident expressing character via spoken expression.
  2. Demonstrate basic stagecraft, theatre technology, rehearsal techniques and overall theatre professionalism.
  3. Through workplace integrated learning opportunities, perform with confidence as an ensemble/chorus member.
  4. Use industry experience and an international outlook to evaluate and improve professional practice and performance.

Unit Content

  1. An evaluation will follow each production, at which staff involved and invited guests, will offer criticism and analysis of each student's contribution to the project over the rehearsal and performance period.
  2. Communicating successfully via the spoken voice and song.
  3. Rehearsal and performance of full-length musicals (fully staged) as well as plays, projects and performances from international repertoire and provided through workshop conditions and experience in industry environments.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Directed productions and supervised groupwork.

Assessment

GS4 GRADING SCHEMA 4 Used for undifferentiated pass/fail units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
TestPerformance pracs
TestPerformance in productions

Text References

  • ^ Specific reference works appropriate to the student's research, text study, and performance techniques, used in each production will be selected by the director and/or tutors involved with the production as the choice of each work is finalised.
  • Specific reference works appropriate to the student's research, text study, and performance techniques, used in each production will be selected by the director and/or tutors involved with the production as the choice of each work is finalised.

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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