Module Code - Title:
MD6111
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COLLOQUIUM 1
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
PF
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
The purpose of this module is to encourage and facilitate postgraduate students to engage with a community of scholars and practitioners presenting their respective work, from a variety of disciplinary and performance practice perspectives, in a formal, large-scale and medium-scale colloquium/seminar context, drawing from in-house seminars including the Tower Seminar Series, Logos, and other seminars. Students will expand their knowledge from within and outside of their own specialisations, and will tacitly learn about presenting their own work in such a format.
Syllabus:
This module will expose students to scholarship and performance practices from a wide variety of music and dance and related disciplines, enabling students to broaden their perspectives on their own specialisation as well as experience presentations from scholars and performers in cognate disciplines. Students will be expected to attend five seminars from the various series offered in the Academy (Tower Seminar series and/or comparable events, as approved by participating programme coordinators). As a consequence, engage in self directed inquiry and independent study where they have come across a topic or research/performance approach that stimulates their own research practice.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
To expose students to a wide variety of theoretical and practical approaches to presenting work in a formal seminar context.
To develop skills in processing information and formulating questions as part of critical engagement in a seminar presentation context
To create an understanding of the manner in which public seminars fulfill and critical and pedagogical role in the academic and broader, public communities
To expose students to the research activities of staff and visiting speakers/performers
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
To create a culture of critical engagement in writing and performance amongst the full cohort of postgraduate students, promoting an active research community and a sense of shared goals in the acquisition and transfer of knowledge.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
The module is not directly taught but rather experienced through active engagement with the seminar series on a regular basis throughout term (five seminars per semester).
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Repko, Allen F. (2012)
Interdisciplinary Research: Process and Theory
, Sage
Lyall, Catherine, et al (2011)
Interdisciplinary Research Journeys: Practical Strategies for Capturing Creativity
, Bloomsbury Academic
Franko, Mark (ed) (2007)
Ritual and Event: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
, Routledge
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
MAITMPTFA - IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE
MACOMUTFA - COMMUNITY MUSIC
MAMUTHTFA - MUSIC THERAPY
MADAPETFA - DANCE PERFORMANCE
MAFEARTFA - FESTIVE ARTS
MACSPETFA - CLASSICAL STRING PERFORMANCE
MDEDMUTFC - Education (Music)
MARCSOTFA - RITUAL CHANT AND SONG
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
aileen.dillane@ul.ie