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This module will provide opportunities for students to engage in a project to culminate in a final event and/or product. Students will work collaboratively with a team made up of students from other areas of the University to write, promote, produce and perform creative work, plan publicity and provide a public event.

This module will be overseen by members of staff in a number of subject areas. Students will negotiate the parameters of the project with staff and work across both creative and professional contexts, to produce an end-product or performance that meets the requirements of the agreed project. Attention will be focussed on formulating, planning, writing, producing, managing, promoting and performing/presenting a finished product or range of products to an audience or public constituency. The students will be expected to take roles in the production and mediation process and work to tight deadlines through the year to ensure timely and successful completion of the project. Students will work individually in designated roles and in a wider project group. The nature of the artefact(s) produced will be negotiated in the project groups and students will need to justify their proposal to tutors. The role of all intermediaries and ‘customers’ will need to be appropriately considered throughout.

i.  Knowledge and Understanding
On successful completion of the module students should be able to:
a) Synthesise their understanding of creation, mediation and development process in a 'live' project
b) Plan a project and create/perform to a professional standard suitable for public engagement
c) Design a marketing and promotion plan accounting for the needs of audiences 
d) Develop a plan for publishing, copyright and licensing of the product/s. 
e) Engage in a process of reflection and self- and peer- assessment of the project as a whole.

ii. Skills
On successful completion of the module students should be able to:
a) Demonstrate effective group working in the planning and organisation of a the project
b) Demonstrate effective communication skills
c) Demonstrate skills of problem solving and evaluation
d) Demonstrate professionalism in their ability to work to deadlines and consider the needs of artists, performers and ‘customers’
e) Demonstrate effective management skills of a large, complex project and an ability to coalesce a variety of interests

Teaching and Learning Staff / student contact: 20% (lectures, tutorials)
Student directed learning: 80%

The Library Catalogue contains full details of the current reading list for this module. Further details may also be found in the Module Guide.