This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
The purpose of this module is to provide opportunity for self-directed group exploration in the creation of a collaboratively developed interdisciplinary practical research project. Although each student will have to negotiate an individual and personal Learning Contract with a supervising tutor, the focus of this module remains interdisciplinary and collaborative. This will be achieved through a system of lectures, workshops, mentoring, negotiation and tutor supervision. Group projects between 3 and 5 students will be considered. Projects are undertaken and evaluated with tutor guidance. Examples of studies include: performance projects, audio-visual work and multi-media projects.
The module will make use of two-hour seminars and two-hour practical workshops to introduce students to the module. The first four seminars will look at collaborative models, working groups will be formed and individual Learning Contracts for each student will be developed. The Learning Contract will specify in detail the personal learning aims for each student, which is negotiated with the module convener in the context of their collaborative group. Each group will produce one collaborative work, which will be presented early in the summer term.
Seminars: 12 hours
Workshops: 8 hours
Individual and group tutorials: 10
Total Contact Hours: 30
Private Study Hours: 270
Total Study Hours: 300
20-minute group seminar presentation: 20%
Project portfolio (including accompanying 600-word written documentation including a bibliography): 80%
Sawyer, R. (2003), Group Creativity: Music, Theatre, Collaboration, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Steiner, V. (2006), Creative Collaboration, Oxford: OUP.
Littleton, K. and Miell, D. eds. (2004), Collaborative Creativity, London: Free Association Books.
See the library reading list for this module (Medway)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module level 6 students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate a detailed knowledge and systematic understanding of various models of interdisciplinarity between areas such as music, sound art, fine art, drama and performance art.
2. Identify and utilise a broad range of skills within a working group, while developing advanced personal specialisms that are informed by work at the forefront of the discipline.
3. Develop a performance event / collaborative production from conception to realisation that draws together the skills of the group members.
The intended generic learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module level 6 students will be able to:
1. Utilise inter-personal skills of communication, planning and evaluative interaction in complex and unpredictable contexts.
2. Work effectively as part of a group with an appreciation of different viewpoints.
3. Manage resources and time effectively, exercising initiative and personal responsibility in the organisation of tasks.
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