Animateuring - Creative Project Facilitation (10433.1)

The Animateuring unit focuses on preparing the student to practically apply the skills they have acquired through their engagement in the drama and performance. It prepares the student to be able to apply their skills in practical ways across the community: creating, leading and facilitating projects that are designed to have social, economic and cultural impacts on individuals, organisations and communities. It emphasises the core roles of the animateur including maker, performer, initiating artist, collaborative artist, ensemble artist, and community facilitator.

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Develop an understanding and capacity for initiating and realising projects in drama and performance within and across a range of cultural and social contexts;
2. Acquire a greater understanding of the utility and value of drama and performance experiences for individuals and groups at the community, school and business;
3. Achieve skill in eliciting ideas from people and implementing appropriate processes to develop artistic performances;
4. Acquire a practical understanding of group dynamics and communication skills needed to develop productive work processes within a collaborative context;
5. Develop effective entrepreneurial, planning management and promotional skills appropriate to projects, to ventures in arts training and to small arts organisations; and
6. Acquire a capacity with which to target, connect with, nurture and develop an audience.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - communicate and engage with Indigenous Australians in ethical and culturally respectful ways

Prerequisites

10432 Introduction to Performance Skills AND 9717 Production Theatre Skills AND 9708 Critical Performance AND 9710 Performance Making AND 10434 Theatre Directing.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.