MA in Performance Writing based at Arnolfini

This MA in Performance Writing developed through the ongoing partnership between University College Falmouth and Arnolfini. This course offers a unique opportunity to develop your writing practice at Masters level within the environment of Arnolfini. The MA is designed to bring together the best that UCF has to offer in terms of a cross-artform approach to contemporary writing with the unique venue, resources, networks and professional practice that Arnofini has to offer.

Interdisciplinary in its approach, the MA sets out to explore the boundaries and intersections between different forms and media, and to engage with new possibilities and technologies for the production and dissemination of writing in the 21st century. You'll benefit from participating in an area of the University's work that is well networked, enjoying links and partnerships with a range of artists, writers, institutions, art producers and publishers.

Teaching takes place in small groups, through individual and team tutorials, staff and student-led seminars, presentations, specialist workshops and work-in-progress events, supported by visiting professors, industry specialists and practising artists and writers. The course is assessed through a mixture of presentations/crits of your practical work, your portfolio of practice, a written research project, proposals, your Final Major Practical Project and research, and critical commentary. Assessment at Falmouth is regarded as part of the personal learning process. Therefore you'll be asked to develop peer and self-evaluation skills, which will be used in critical, conceptual, productive and professional capacities.

This MA has a strong focus on professional practice, which is written into all stages of the core curriculum. This emphasis will be significantly enhanced by regular contact with visiting artists and writers, as well as professional development guidance from industry specialists based at Arnolfini.

Starts 5 Oct 2011

Course Structure
The course is organised in three blocks; two ten-week teaching blocks delivered either side of Christmas, followed by a 25 week independent project, making a 45-week academic year. During the first two blocks, the course is delivered at the Arnolfini on Wednesdays. The 25-week block has considerably less group teaching as you work towards the completion of your Final Major Project. This process is supported by significant tutorial guidance and three ‘work in progress events' at Arnolfini, also on Wednesdays. Throughout the course, you'll be in regular contact with a designated tutor, accessed through email, telephone, virtual learning technologies and, at certain stages in the course, in person at Arnolfini.

FFI
Contact Jerome Fletcher, course leader Jerome.Fletcher@falmouth.ac.uk
or visit http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/201/courses-7/postgraduate-courses-43/performance-writing-ma-1688.html

Published on: 7 September 2010