EA364-6-FY-LO:
Context in Industry 3 - Professional Placement

The details
2024/25
East 15 Acting School
East15 (Loughton) Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 27 June 2025
30
14 March 2022

 

Requisites for this module
(none)
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(none)

 

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Key module for

BA DKAS Stage and Production Management,
BA W451 Stage Management

Module description

This module provides an opportunity for students to apply their knowledge and skills in a professional working environment and to reflect critically and analytically on their experiences to inform their future employment aspirations.

Placement
In discussion with you, your tutor will suggest different styles of placements appropriate to your individual strengths.

NB: on occasions staff may decide to substitute a placement for further project/productions work where it is felt that the student's skills require further enhancing before being sent into a professional environment.

Module aims

The aims of the module are:
1. To give students experience of working in a professional Stage Management environment.
2. To give students experience of the demands of working for an employer under professional working conditions.
3. To allow students to gain a greater understanding of a range of professional roles in a given working environment, and their relationships and responsibilities to each other.
4. To extend skills and knowledge by using a different or more specialist range of equipment and techniques.
5. Give students the opportunity to observe and participate in different working methods and processes.
6. Give students the opportunity to meet and mix with professional practitioners, and build contacts for the future.
7. To prepare students for employment.

Module learning outcomes

1. Understanding of a professional environment and production roles and responsibilities
2. Understanding of the interaction between teams within a production department
3. Understanding of future career opportunities and industry developments
4. Ability to learn from practicing professionals
5. Understanding of Professional Development and preparation.

Module information

No additional information available.

Learning and teaching methods

practical work placement, reflective evaluation

Bibliography

The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course.
The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students.
Further reading can be obtained from this module's reading list.

Assessment items, weightings and deadlines

Coursework / exam Description Deadline Coursework weighting
Coursework   Continuous assessment     
Coursework   Reflective evaluation     
Coursework   Placement feedback    60% 

Additional coursework information

Assessment is based on the ability to achieve the learning outcomes of the module related to the overall criteria contained in the Year Three Assessment Form and Grading Descriptors. Summative assessment is undertaken at the end of the term in which the module is taken and marks issued to students on the Assesment Form together with written tutor comments.

Exam format definitions

  • Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
  • In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
  • In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
  • In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary, for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.

Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.

Overall assessment

Coursework Exam
100% 0%

Reassessment

Coursework Exam
100% 0%
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Mr Alexander Purser, email: a.purser@essex.ac.uk.
Alex Purser and staff
abpurs@essex.ac.uk

 

Availability
No
No
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External examiner

Ms Emma Ruth Hansford
LAMDA
Lead Practitioner Stage Manager
Resources
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.

 

Further information
East 15 Acting School

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