KTB311 Dramatic Developments
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| Unit code: | KTB311 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | 60 Credit Points of completed study in Drama (KTB%) |
| Equivalent(s): | KTB316 |
| 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 1 2026, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KTB311 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 60 Credit Points of completed study in Drama (KTB%) |
| Equivalent: | KTB316 |
| Coordinator: | David Megarrity | d.megarrity@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This advanced practice-led unit synthesises and builds on skills and knowledge developed across the degree and is designed to facilitate connections between theory and practice in the creation of an original concept for a performative outcome. You will research, propose, experiment and conceptualise a performance, scripted or devised, that responds to bigger critical and creative conversations, as well as addressing potential industry destinations for the concept you craft. Articulation of development processes will form a critical component of your learning.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Formulate and explain an independent perspective on creative development justified by connections with key ideas of theory and practice.
- Understand and implement creative development processes used to create original performative concepts.
- Critique and evaluate the feasibility and potential of creative concepts in development.
Content
This unit gives you practical experience in the conceptual development of a creative work. This process includes the application of creative development models that focus on research, interrogation of creative ideas within collaborative environments and documentation of a performance plan/script to handover to associated creatives, including the technical needs of the work. The learning experience will culminate in a Work in Progress showing that displays the content, form and purpose of the proposed live performance event.
Learning Approaches
In the first half of the semester, you will learn through a series of lectures and explore concepts and practices in large group workshops. In the second half of semester, you will work in small to medium groups to generate and consolidate drama in more depth, with a focus on bold developments grounded in research. You will engage in both directed and autonomous creative development workshops across the semester, culminating in a Work in Progress showing at the end of the semester. There will be opportunities for close contact with, and feedback from teaching staff and your peers. There is an emphasis in this unit on demonstration of self-reliance, teamwork, and leadership in a collaborative performance-making environment.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Throughout the progress of workshops teaching staff will provide feedback to you which will inform all assessments items. 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
- peer feedback
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessments for this unit. Assessment Item 1 is an essay articulating an artistic rationale for your individual drama praxis in which you situate your work in relation to a critical or practice-based area of focus. Assessment Item 2 is a demonstration, where you will present in groups a developed concept in an engaging, performative presentation.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Essay
An essay articulating an artistic rationale for your individual drama praxis in which you situate your work in relation to a critical or practice-based area of focus.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Demonstration
A demonstration in which your group presents the results of your development in an engaging, performative presentation
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.
Other required safety inductions will be conducted as required.
Resources
Unit guidance and readings provided via Canvas and QUT Readings
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.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
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, ULO2, Essay, Demonstration - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Essay, Demonstration - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Essay, Demonstration - 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: ULO2, ULO3, Demonstration - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Essay, Demonstration - Communicate, represent, and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Essay, Demonstration - Discern, critically analyse, and synthesise knowledge in complex creative and critical settings.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Essay, Demonstration - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices.
Relates to: ULO2, Demonstration - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through contextual research, reflection, and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Essay, Demonstration - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, sustainability, and work with integrity across all practice and professional settings.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Essay, Demonstration - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Demonstration