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PRFM4112: Theatre and Performance Studies Casebook
2023 unit information
In this unit, you will produce a substantial casebook based on your fieldwork placement in PRFM4115 Inside Rehearsal. Grounded in principles of 'thick description' and rehearsal ethnography, the casebook will provide you with the opportunity to produce a substantial piece of writing that reflects and reports on the work of professional performance makers.
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Theatre and Performance Studies |
| Credit points | 24 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. provide a detailed account of the people involved in the performance-making process you observed, and how the project/artists are situated in a field of practice;
- LO2. apply a suitably reflexive methodology for your writing about training/rehearsal processes, demonstrating how your position as a researcher influences the kinds of understandings that you have developed about the processes you observed;
- LO3. apply theoretical concepts drawn from anthropology to specific rehearsal case studies, demonstrating your mastery of rehearsal ethnography.
- LO4. communicate complex ideas clearly and concisely, in appropriate academic style
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