M120DR213 Applied theatre and project management

Contents and structure

This is module 2 of the Master's Degree in Drama Pedagogy and Applied Theatre. The module is an artistic/arts pedagogical cooperation project with a group of drama students and a chosen social arena outside of the university (prison, health care, cultural centre, hospital, etc.).

Learning Outcome

After completion of the module, the student has acquired knowledge about:

• Applied theatre as an arts pedagogical philosophy and a field of practice
• Problems, questions and concepts from the practice and theory of applied theatre
• Project development, arts pedagogical adaptation and facilitation, and artistic mediation through working with a performative presentation/a performative programme.

After completion of the module, the student can:

• Demonstrate acting competence and master the field¿s forms of expression.
• Combine form and content in a conscious way artistically, and mediate/facilitate within a chosen aesthetic
• Communicate and interact performatively with target groups from chosen social arenas
• Work out a project concept and a financing plan for own art-based undertakings.

The student can

• Implement drama pedagogy and applied theatre on different social arenas
• Lead and manage projects in applied theatre
• Evaluate and put to use research-based approaches in the chosen project of this module.