Module Code - Title:
MD4092
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Irish World Academy Practicum C3
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module will continue to focus on students developing their artistic practice in an collaborative context while gaining embodied experience of other arts practices outside of their own genre and disciplinary specialties. The rationale for including a defined space for the engagement with performance practices unfamiliar to the student is to show the student different creativities structured by unfamiliar aesthetics, cultural context and modes of embodiment. Students will have the option to build on cross-genre skills acquired in Practicum C1 in certain contexts. The title of the module reflects the Irish World Academy tradition of presenting modules with an wide performance skills focus as 'practicum'. Such an approach is enabled by an embodied methodology that is critically engaged. The 'C' of the title is a reflection of the cross-genre content of the module.
Syllabus:
This module is split into two parts. In the first the student will engage other students in a laboratory space within their own discipline, mentored by faculty and tutors, to develop creative, collaborative work within and extending from their own disciplines and genre practices. The second half of this module is designed to facilitate 'cross-arts' exploration of creative practice as a core dimension of every Academy undergraduate's educational experience. Each student will chose a performance course, from a genre or approach outside of their disciplinary and genre focused stream, selecting from a pool of courses covering instrumental / dance tuition, music/dance ensemble, dance/music ensemble, dance/music composition and other available performing arts practices. Students will have the option to build on cross-genre skills acquired in Practicum C1 and/or C2 in certain contexts.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
- recognise forms of creative practice in the students own discipline and in others.
- manipulates creative parameters for artistic practice in the student's own discipline and in others.
- assemble individual and ensemble performance pieces.
- Evaluate creative options appropriate to more than more than one performing arts practice.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
- Embrace a multi-disciplinary approach to creativity
- co-operate in the production of collaborative performance art in a number of genre contexts
- participate productive in a community of arts practice.
- Synthesise practices in the development of the student's own creative voice
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
- perform in more than one genre.
- embody their own and one unfamiliar arts practice.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module will be taught in the context of small group and larger ensemble classes according to best practice in the international context of performance arts education. UL Graduate attributes are core to the ethos of this module, developing creative practices through the development of embodied knowledge. Students will learn to develop articulate and responsible styles of performance in their own particular idioms and in others in which they are less familiar.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
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Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
hannah.fahey@ul.ie