KTB312 Staging the Drama
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| Unit code: | KTB312 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | 60 Credit Points of completed Drama (KTB%) units |
| Antirequisite(s): | KTB313 |
| Equivalent(s): | KTB326 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | KTB311 Dramatic Developments |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,192 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $1,020 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,704 |
| International unit fee | $4,944 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2026, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KTB312 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 60 Credit Points of completed Drama (KTB%) units |
| Equivalent: | KTB326 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Familiarity with the processes involved in creating an original performance outcome, such as delivered in KTB311 Dramatic Developments |
| Anti-requisite: | KTB313 |
| Coordinator: | Kathryn Kelly | kl.kelly@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This advanced unit enables you to independently realise a new work on the page, stage or in between, responding to real world opportunities you may pursue after graduation. This unit activates the foundations of prior drama units in a capstone experience which enables you to further develop your creative practice in consideration of developing a sustainable creative practice.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Plan and communicate a creative outcome.
- Demonstrate the skills and capacity to undertake a nominated creative activity/role.
- Realise a viable performative outcome.
- Demonstrate a contribution as a leader and/or collaborator in the process of independently creating, producing and presenting a new creative work or original adaptation.
Content
This unit gives you practical experience in the realisation of performance events under the mentorship of drama staff members and/or industry professionals. To realise the performance outcome, you will draw upon a repertoire of skills and practice as well as collaborate with other students and creatives working towards a common creative goal. The process will culminate in a performance outcome appropriate to the project.
Learning Approaches
This capstone unit requires you to draw from your individual skills to work in a self-driven and self-directed creative group environment. Through the application of skills and techniques related to performance-making processes you will work towards outcomes that require critical, creative, and analytical thinking and effective problem solving in a professional context. The outcome can be a performance, text or devised, or another form of a negotiated live performance event and your participation can range across a variety of creative roles and tasks. The nature of the creative endeavour and the outcome will be negotiated with staff according to the needs of the work being created. There is an emphasis in this unit on your personal learning, attention and commitment is expected for the whole process of mounting a production/event.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will have access to timely feedback and critique, based upon the students' requests. Written and oral feedback will be provided to individuals and groups upon request.
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- comments on summative assessment work in addition to criteria sheets, both for group work and individual endeavour
- criteria sheet grading.
Assessment
Overview
There are three assessments for this unit. Assessment Item 1 is a presentation outlining your role in the project and your plans to help realise the project. Assessment Item 2 is a performance and Assessment item 3 is a reflective journal.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Presentation
You will research, prepare and present an oral presentation on your proposed performance to be delivered as part of Assessment Item 2.
Assessment: Performance
In collaborative groups, you will develop, rehearse and then perform a new creative work for an intended audience.
Assessment: Reflective Journal
A reflective journal is a personal record of your learning experiences. This written statement asks you to reflect in action (while doing something). Your reflections will be anchored around a sequence of pre-determined questions. The reflection should be objective and not bogged down in self-justification but an honest appraisal of your contribution to the performance project to date written in first person.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students are requested to visit and review the Health and Safety information on the HiQ web pages (CIESJ Tier 1 HSE requirement)
For some students, this unit also may also require a Tier 2 CIESJ Health and Safety Induction which is provided by the technician on site in the theatre, workshop or studio.
Resources
Required Text
- Required reading will be available online through the unit's Canvas site.
Recommended References
- Other unit readings and reference material will be available online.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or QUT facilities, refer to the HiQ Health and Safety information. For CIESJ Tiers 2 and 3 Health and Safety requirements, you will be instructed on safe procedures and the required safety gear for all studio and workshop processes that are demonstrated.
As all performance-makers understand, creating a performance potentially carries with it certain physical and/or emotional risks, both in the rehearsal room and in the theatre. Indeed taking risks is an integral component of the art form’s processes. Some rehearsal warm ups and exercises, and some performance events may include physically or emotionally strenuous activities. Managing this risk to ensure working conditions are safe, is always a high priority in the production process. It is therefore extremely important that if you are aware of personal physical or emotional vulnerabilities that make you feel unsafe or at risk in any way, you should immediately inform your tutor or director or stage manager, so that your situation can be evaluated and appropriate rectifying action can be taken.
Theatres and other performance spaces are also potentially dangerous places, particularly backstage during performances when low light conditions prevail. You will be warned by the stage manager, the production manager or the director of any specific risks that you will need to be aware of, when your project team first moves into the theatre. Whenever moving into a new performance space, you should always conduct your own risk assessment, and notify your team or director of any hazards you have personally identified.
Every effort is made by Drama staff at QUT to ensure that you work in a safe environment. Conversely you are absolutely expected to follow all safety rules, procedures and directions, and to ensure that you do not put at risk the safety of others, or yourself, or of the highest artistic fulfilment of the project in any way.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.CA01 Bachelor of Creative Arts
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO1, Presentation, Reflective Journal - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Presentation, Performance, Reflective Journal - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Presentation, Performance, Reflective Journal - Demonstrate technical proficiency and a knowledge of contemporary digital practices and technologies in one or more disciplines and apply these in creative and critical settings.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Presentation, Performance - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Presentation, Reflective Journal - Communicate, represent, and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Presentation, Performance, Reflective Journal - Discern, critically analyse, and synthesise knowledge in complex creative and critical settings.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Presentation, Performance, Reflective Journal - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Presentation, Performance - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through contextual research, reflection, and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Presentation, Performance, Reflective Journal - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, sustainability, and work with integrity across all practice and professional settings.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO4, Presentation, Performance, Reflective Journal - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Presentation, Performance, Reflective Journal