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CART12007 - Acting 3: Music and Acting

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit, you will explore the nexus between music and theatre. You will learn how music is often used in theatre to enhance the experience of a play, further the drama, act as a narrator, or be a conduit for text. You will perform scenes from musicals or plays with music, and will attend a weekly vocal workshop that will extend your capacity to work across all genres. You will be equipped with a working knowledge of the role of music within theatre, and have an audition piece from the standard repertoire.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisite: CART11008 Acting 2: Classical Acting

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2017

Term 2 - 2018 Profile
Cairns
Term 1 - 2019 Profile
Cairns
Townsville
Term 1 - 2020 Profile
Cairns
Townsville

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 30%
2. Practical Assessment 35%
3. Group Work 35%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Students and teaching staff.
Feedback
Students appreciated the workload of this unit being tailored to the respective cohort involved, and benefited from working collaboratively with 1st and 3rd year acting majors.
Recommendation
Continue the practice of designing performance and production outcomes around the size and scope of the cohort undertaking this unit, on a case by case basis. This includes integrating year levels where appropriate with small cohorts.
Action Taken
This practice was undertaken again in HE term 1, but the students lacked drive and motivation. This had a great deal to do with COVID-19
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Analyse the different roles of music in musicals and in plays with music
  2. Perform a scene from a musical including the performance of a song
  3. Perform in a university production.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
1 - Written Assessment
2 - Practical Assessment
3 - Group Work
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
Introductory Level
Intermediate Level
Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
1 - Communication
2 - Problem Solving
3 - Critical Thinking
4 - Information Literacy
5 - Team Work
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
Introductory Level
Intermediate Level
Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 - Written Assessment
2 - Practical Assessment
3 - Group Work