BA Italian A and Theatre and Performance

Year 2

(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 Italian with native or other competent speakers;
- Being able to demonstrate complex receptive and productive language skills in a variety of contexts;
- Having consolidated and extended knowledge and understanding of complex structures of the Italian language;
- Having a knowledge and understanding of selected areas of Italian Studies such as the literatures, cultures, linguistic contexts, history, politics, social and economic structures of Italian society;
- 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 effectively to communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of media;
- Demonstrating the knowledge and understanding required for more advanced, specialist study in Years 3 and 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 Italian 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 Italian 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 subjects;
- Demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to the discipline;
- The ability to evaluate and analyse critically received opinion.