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J40 Master of Arts (Performing Arts)

The Master of Arts (Performing Arts) is a two-year, full-time Master by research program for students who have completed an undergraduate degree in the arts.

 

Students will be required to research, devise and produce new works of art, or develop new approaches to arts practice. It is expected that this activity will be a contemporary expression of traditional arts practice leading towards new insights in the selected field of study. The work will be exploratory, frequently based around emerging methodologies of arts research, leading usually to a performance, presentation, exhibition or publication of significance.


Integral to research through the practices of the performing art/s in question, the student is required to provide an appropriate written record (between 20,000 and 30,000 words) of their research, detailing their interrogative processes and artistic ideas in the context of current professional knowledge. Together, the critical practice and reflection constitute the thesis which is expected to develop appropriate methodologies of inquiry and incorporate current theoretical understandings of the discipline/s through its various modes of transmission.


Where the thesis involves live performance, exhibition and/or events, candidates are advised to pay attention to examination procedures before the required final submission of the two integral components in a form of documentation appropriate to the research involved.


The course is aimed primarily at high level practitioners from a wide cross-section of the arts community who wish to extend their independent capacity to operate in an increasingly multi-art form and technologically-based profession.


 Specifically, the course aims to:

  • create opportunities for innovation and creativity in the arts;
  • use the resources of the Academy to create leadership opportunities for people who can offer the arts informed direction, and identifiable and marketable skills, to advance the Australian cultural environment into the next decade;
  • provide opportunities for people from diverse ethnic and creative arts backgrounds to synthesise disparate artistic skills to produce innovative and creative outcomes for the arts industry;
  • build upon and extend the traditions and conventions of the student’s earlier training to create new knowledge for the arts.
 
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

This Master by Research course is a two year course comprising Stage 1 (Preliminary) and Stage 2 (Thesis).

 

Requirement for admission to Stage 1 (Preliminary) is successful completion of a Bachelor Pass degree.

 

Requirement for admission to Stage 2 (Thesis) is normally based on successful completion of Stage 1. However, students may also be admitted to Stage 2 by advanced standing based on having completed:

  • A Bachelor Degree with Honours, or
  • An approved research-based Graduate Diploma, or
  • An approved equivalent qualification, or
  • Appropriate research preparation.
 
COURSE LOCATION
This course is available on Mt Lawley Campus.
 
MODE OF STUDY
This course is available by Full-time, or Part-time mode.
 
MODE OF DELIVERY
This course is available in the following mode of delivery - On-campus.
 
COURSE STRUCTURE

The Master of Arts (Performing Arts) will comprise two years of full-time study (or the part-time equivalent).

 

The sequence of units offered is as follows:
 
YEAR ONE - SEMESTER 1
Stage 1 (Preliminary)
MAP5116 Performing Arts Research Preparation 30 
MAP5120 Masters Thesis Development 1 30 
 
YEAR ONE - SEMESTER 2
MAP5115 Arts Issues 30 
MAP5130 Masters Thesis Development 2 30 
 
YEAR TWO
Stage 2 (Thesis)
The thesis component of this program is entirely research based and equivalent to 1 year of full time study.
MAP6200 Masters Thesis 0 
 
 
 
 
Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)
For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes, Graduate Attributes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Student Equity, Diversity and Disability Service website:
http://intranet.ecu.edu.au/student/support/student-equity

Last Updated - Higher Education: 15/03/2014 VET: 14/05/2014