BA Chinese and Theatre and Performance

Year 3

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of:

- Being able to achieve effective communication in Chinese with native or other competent speakers;
- Having consolidated and extended knowledge and understanding of complex structures of Chinese;
- Having complex receptive and productive language skills in a variety of contexts;
- Having a knowledge and understanding of one or more aspects of the literatures, cultures, linguistic contexts, history, politics, social and economic structures of Chinese-speaking societies that will normally have been significantly enhanced by a period of residence in China;
- Effectively communicating information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms;
- Apply generic and subject specific intellectual qualities in theatre and performance, being able to:
- communicate creative and/or theoretical work to a range of audiences using different modes of delivery;
- access, select and interpret theatre and performance research; present a structured and coherent argument (in both written and spoken form);
- critique and evaluate live performance;
- Understand the cultural, historical and social contexts of a range of performance practices and practitioners;
- Evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to problem solving in theatre and performance practice, theory and research; understand processes by which performance is created, realised and managed; contribute to the group processes involved in the creation of original work;
- Appreciate and employ the main methods of enquiry in the field of theatre and performance and critically evaluate the appropriateness of different methods of enquiry;
- Being able to effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms;
- Demonstrating the knowledge and understanding required for more advanced, specialist study in Programme Year 4.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- Qualities, professionalism and transferable skills necessary for employment in Chinese and Theatre/Performance;
- Skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
- Research skills;
- Time-management, critical thinking and decision-making skills;
- Social and cultural sensitivities;
- Awareness of health and safety procedures; awareness of ethics.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- Demonstrating the ability to apply a range of aspects of Chinese and Theatre/Performance to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
- Work that critically reflects and draws on a wide variety of material from both disciplines;
- Demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to the discipline;
- The ability to evaluate and analyse critically received opinion.