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CART12008 - Acting 4: Acting and the Spoken Word

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit, you will learn how acting is a spoken performance form requiring mastery of your speaking voice in two important spoken techniques: accents and monologues. You will work on your voice developing your articulation, vocal resonance, and projection. You will examine different accents using international scripts. You will learn the art of phonetics and how that can identify subtle differences between accents. You will explore the nature of the monologue and how to get the most out of your voice when there are no other actors to distract.

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: CART12007 Acting 3: Music and 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 2 - 2017

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Cairns
Term 2 - 2019 Profile
Cairns
Townsville
Term 2 - 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. Practical Assessment 25%
2. Group Work 35%
3. Practical Assessment 40%

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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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.

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Correlation of unit outcomes.
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It is important that at Term 2 Year 2, this unit is able to be prescribed to the developed strengths and competencies of the student cohort. Prescribed Moodle reliance does not support in studio training of practice, and should be only used as an meta-studio self paced learning resource.
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Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Perform standard Australian English, General American, Irish English, and Standard Southern British (Received Pronunciation) accents
  2. Perform a contemporary and a classical monologue to a professional standard
  3. Perform in a university production.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Practical Assessment • •
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3 - Practical Assessment • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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2 - Problem Solving •
3 - Critical Thinking • • •
4 - Information Literacy • • •
5 - Team Work •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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1 - Practical Assessment • • • •
2 - Group Work • • •
3 - Practical Assessment • • • •