TH994-30 Enhancing Your Professional Profile
Introductory description
This module addresses key issues and skills required to develop a career in applied theatre.
Module aims
Rooted in advice and guidance from established practitioners in a range of settings, this module offers practical insight into the skills and knowledge you will need to develop and build your professional profile. It will explore what it means to have a portfolio career; how you establish a company and promote your work; the importance of making connections and working with collaborators; project initiation, budgeting, management and evaluation; how to shape funding applications that tap into the cultural zeitgeist and respond to different briefs and the needs of organisations whether they are in the educational, criminal justice, health, charity or international development sectors.
Outline syllabus
This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be covered. Actual sessions held may differ.
WEEK 1: Forming a company/Building a profile
WEEK 2: Responding to and Shaping the Cultural Zeitgeist
WEEK 3: Initiating and Managing collaboration
WEEK 4: Governance, Risk Assessment, Safe Guarding and an Ethics of Care
WEEK 5: Designing an Effective Creative Brief
Week 6: Reading week
WEEK 7: Creative Brief Assessments
WEEK 8: Funders and Funding Applications
WEEK 9: Budgeting – what is your labour worth?
WEEK 10: The Politics and Practice of Evaluation
Learning outcomes
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
- Understand the practicalities of working as a practitioner in an applied theatre environment and the needs of different types of organisations.
- Conceptualise their own practice and demonstrate this through an ability to design, manage and evaluate projects.
- Understand the skills and practices required to effectively work with collaborators, funders and project briefs.
Subject specific skills
Skills relating to developing a career in applied theatre including:
Organisational structures
Legal obligations
Strategies for developing a professional profile
Partnership working
Fundraising
Budgeting for projects
Responding to context specific conditions
Transferable skills
Problem solving
Partnership working
Fundraising
Budgeting
Making presentations to potential collaborators
Study time
| Type | Required |
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| Seminars | 9 sessions of 3 hours (96%) |
| Tutorials | 1 session of 1 hour (4%) |
| Total | 28 hours |
Private study description
Additional reading and research
Costs
No further costs have been identified for this module.
You must pass all assessment components to pass the module.
Assessment group A3
| Weighting | Study time | Eligible for self-certification | |
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Assessment component |
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| Presentation of creative brief (30 minutes) | 60% | 120 hours | Yes (extension) |
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Presentation of the key aims, objectives, working methods and projected outcomes |
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Reassessment component is the same |
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Assessment component |
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| Funding Application (2500 words) | 40% | 80 hours | Yes (extension) |
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A 2500-word funding application with a budget to support the delivery of an applied theatre project |
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Reassessment component is the same |
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Feedback on assessment
Written feedback
Post-requisite modules
If you pass this module, you can take:
- TH997-60 Final Project (practical)
- TH996-60 Final Project (written)
Courses
This module is Core for:
- Year 1 of TTHS-W440 Postgraduate Taught Applied Theatre: Arts, Action, Change