School: Western Australian 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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Improvisation for Performance
  • Unit Code

    PAM3230
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Tamara Lisa COOK

Description

An introduction to acting skills with an emphasis on specific problem solving through imagination and improvisation. This unit looks at the art of improvisation as it relates to voice, body language, expression, dialogue and other modes of communication. It focuses upon the individual as well as creative improvisation in group situations. Students explore the communication and expression of narrative from the perspective of inhibition, emotional and social intelligence, ability to listen and communication on both physical and vocal levels. Classes explore various acting methods and techniques and are practically orientated in order to put theoretical concepts into practice.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Be able to play in the moment and develop a listening for fellow performers.
  2. Demonstrate an emotional and physical range of expression that is grounded in a committed understanding of themselves in the work.
  3. Enable the student to connect in the fullest possible way to their instincts and sense of theatrical intuition.
  4. Show an understanding and ability to use the language of improvisation to develop scenarios.
  5. Utilise the students inventiveness and creativity as an actor.

Unit Content

  1. Action and reaction.
  2. Breakdown of actor's inhibitions.
  3. Empathy.
  4. Endowment.
  5. Ensemble awareness.
  6. Exercises in spontaneity.
  7. Expression of thought and emotion.
  8. Listening skills.
  9. Story telling.
  10. Theatre games.
  11. Vocal and physical communication.

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit is delivered through group sessions with students working in the space together. Students will also work in front of the group and the work evaluated.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework 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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkContinuous assessment against the objectives of the brief which will pay particular attention to:50%
ParticipationThe level and quality of the students participation50%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Western Australian 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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Improvisation for Performance
  • Unit Code

    PAM3230
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Tamara Lisa COOK

Description

An introduction to acting skills with an emphasis on specific problem solving through imagination and improvisation. This unit looks at the art of improvisation as it relates to voice, body language, expression, dialogue and other modes of communication. It focuses upon the individual as well as creative improvisation in group situations. Students explore the communication and expression of narrative from the perspective of inhibition, emotional and social intelligence, ability to listen and communication on both physical and vocal levels. Classes explore various acting methods and techniques and are practically orientated in order to put theoretical concepts into practice.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Be able to play in the moment and develop a listening for fellow performers.
  2. Demonstrate an emotional and physical range of expression that is grounded in a committed understanding of themselves in the work.
  3. Enable the student to connect in the fullest possible way to their instincts and sense of theatrical intuition.
  4. Show an understanding and ability to use the language of improvisation to develop scenarios.
  5. Utilise the students inventiveness and creativity as an actor.

Unit Content

  1. Action and reaction.
  2. Breakdown of actor's inhibitions.
  3. Empathy.
  4. Endowment.
  5. Ensemble awareness.
  6. Exercises in spontaneity.
  7. Expression of thought and emotion.
  8. Listening skills.
  9. Story telling.
  10. Theatre games.
  11. Vocal and physical communication.

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit is delivered through group sessions with students working in the space together. Students will also work in front of the group and the work evaluated.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework 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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkContinuous assessment against the objectives of the brief which will pay particular attention to:50%
ParticipationThe level and quality of the students participation50%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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