Critical Appraisals

Tutor: Simone Coxall, Richard Neale and visiting practitioners Contact hours: 15

Outline

Using your Actor’s Journals as a reference, you are required to make a creative appraisal of each term’s work and to reflect and rededicate yourself as old ideas and concepts are discarded and new areas of personal research emerge. You will also explore methodologies and experiences of process outside of your personal involvement in order to offer you perspective on your own learning. There are two formal Critical Appraisal tasks within the year.

Term 1: At the end of the Autumn term you will write and submit a written Critical Appraisal of between 2,500 – 2,750 words. This will be a reflection of your process and progress of your first term’s work. Term 2: Over the Easter vacation, you will reflect on the second term’s work. You will be required to write an annotated bibliography referencing 3 outside sources. This will be between 600 & 750 words. A creative appraisal of this work in relation to your process will be presented in a performance of between 7 & 10 minutes in Term 3. You will subsequently write an assessment of this process and detail strategies for continued development. This will be between 450 & 550 words.

What will I be expected to achieve?

On successful completion of the module you will be expected to be able to: Skills • independently research, reflect and analyse your personal creative process in relationship to your training experience • analyse and critically reflect on your personal development in relation to the wider field of creative practice, methodology, training and performance • develop concrete personal strategies that can be directly applied within the next phase of your work • find articulation of your research in a written and performance form

Knowledge and understanding • identify connections across the breadth of your practice to reflect on patterns (or otherwise) within your training

Values and Attitudes • express and structure your ideas with a clarity and maturity that demonstrates an objective appraisal of an essentially subjective process