2023/24 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

PECI1111 Performance Perspectives

20 creditsClass Size: 65

Module manager: Alison Andrews
Email: A.Andrews@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2023/24

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This lecture series with seminar-based learning will provide a foundation for the degree programme. It will typically focus on the study of performance perspectives drawn from concepts such as body, space, time, technology, interactivity and different forms of creative organisation. Seminars will be used to explore students responses to these concepts in relation to the work of practitioners, and their own performance practices, but also to develop foundation skills in sourcing and critiquing materials, ethics, presentation, critical thinking and argument.

Objectives

This module will:

- engage with a global range of contemporary issues in performance theory and relate them to practice;

- enable students to mobilise key performance theories and models and use them in both presentation and written work;

- develop students’ understanding of a range of performance forms including historical and contemporary examples of practice from different cultural and geographical contexts, both in documented and live sources;

- enable students to communicate ideas clearly and incisively, using a variety of oral, visual and presentational skills;

- allow students to competently research an area of practice using library and on-line learning resources, adopting a critical and inclusive citational practice.

Learning outcomes
1. Select and analyse one issue, debate and/or concept in relation to a performance example;

2. Articulate a historical, political and cultural context for selected theories and practices;

3. Demonstrate a critical perspective on theory and practice.

4. Present a structured and coherent argument.

5. Apply basic academic research skills with attention paid to inclusive citation.

Skills outcomes
On this module you will have the opportunity to develop:

- Critical thinking.

- Interpretation and presentation skills.

- Communication skills.

- Inclusive citation

- Planning and Organisation

- Collaborative skills

Syllabus

Performance Perspectives provides a foundation for the programmes using lecture, seminar and research skills tasks. It will typically focus on the study of key performance perspectives drawn from concepts such as body, space, time, technology, interactivity and organisation.

Selected texts, performances, events and cultural organisations will be closely examined in relation to these concepts of performance, and within the appropriate historical, political and cultural contexts of their production.

Seminars will be used to debate students own perspectives on these concepts and performance practices introduced in the lectures, but also to develop foundation skills in sourcing and critiquing inclusive materials, understanding ethics, presentation of ideas, critical thinking, and practical demonstration.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Class tests, exams and assessment	1	3.00	3.00
Lecture	10	1.00	10.00
Seminar	10	1.50	15.00
Private study hours			172.00
Total Contact hours			28.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Each student will be expected to make contributions to discussion in seminars. Overview, feedback and guidance will be provided by tutors in these seminars, this allows for an ongoing process of formative feedback from their seminar tutor on students’ engagement with and understanding of the subject matter.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Oral Presentation	Lecture Demonstration (group): 20 minutes + 10 mins Q&A	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Alternative assessment for the lecture demonstration in a group is an independent presentation lasting 5-10 minutes + Q&A. In common with other semester 1 modules on this programme this module will be assessed on a Pass/Fail basis requiring students to pass all tasks.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 26/04/2023

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