DRAM2301 Special Project in Drama 1

Students undertake an individual or collaborative project on a Drama or Creative Arts topic. Suitable topics will provide scope for students to develop in-depth knowledge about an aspect of Drama and live performance; to acquire relevant analytical and critical skills to respond to and engage in a creative process; to demonstrate their learning through collaboration and applying research to a performance or Creative Arts project.

This topic aims to:

• Enable students to develop in-depth knowledge on a topic in Drama and/or the Creative Arts
• Enable students to explore relevant theories, methodologies and debates in Creative Arts scholarship and performance practice
• Enable students to present their learning through independent or collaborative academic and performance practice
• Develop students' research skills in devising, investigating, analysing and critiquing performance

1. Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of a topic in drama and/or the creative arts
2. Demonstrate an awareness of relevant scholarship in drama and the creative arts, including some methodologies debates within practice-led research
3. Demonstrate appropriate research skills in devising, investigating, analysing and critiquing performance
4. Demonstrate an ability to present learning in an appropriate independent/collaborative academic form or performance practice