| CODE | DBS2203 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Developing Disability Arts | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Disability Studies | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit leads on from the study-unit Exploring Disabled People's Expressions offered in the Certificate Level of this programme of studies. This study-unit offers an experiential base through which students will engage with artistic practice. This will support their experiential understanding of accessible methodologies. It will also support their personal development and consequently their understanding of the important role that the arts play in personal and social development, social and community development, accessible and inclusive communities, and in re-positioning social and political identities. The study-unit will also re-visit in further depth the theoretical frameworks introduced in the study-unit 'Exploring Disabled People's Expressions Through Arts'. It will support students to engage in critical thinking reflecting on their experiential learning through theoretical frameworks of disability studies. Study-Unit Aims: The study-unit aims to develop students' awareness and practical understanding of disability arts. It aims to lay out the foundations for methodologies for accessible arts. It aims to allow students to experience the individuation process that is possible through disability arts practice. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - describe different examples of disability arts methodologies; - explore the potential of the arts in the personal development of disabled people's identity; - describe the potential of the arts in the development of inclusive communities; - understand the theoretical, critical and historical significance of disability arts within disability studies. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - work alone and in collaboration with peers different artistic media and modalities; - engage in online discussions and face-to-face discussions on the experience of disability arts; - engage in different forms of artistic practice; - critically appraise their own responses to artistic practice; - reflect on the theoretical, critical and historical significance of disability arts within disability studies; - interpret their own experience of disability arts. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - A. Boal, Games for Actors and Non-Actors (London and New York: Routledge, 1992). - P. Kuppers, Disability Culture and Performance: Find a strange and twisted shape (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). - C. Sandahl and P. Auslander eds., Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance (USA: The University of Michigan Press, 2005). Supplementary Readings: - M. Brown ed., Oily Cart: all sorts of theatre for all sorts of kids (London: Institute of Education Press, 2012). - T. Fahy and K. King, 'Peering Behind the Curtain: Disability, Illness and The Extraordinary Body in Contemporary Theatre' (New York and London: Routledge, 2002). - J. Palmer and R. Hayhow, Learning Disability and Contemporary Theatre (Huddersfield: Full Body and The Voice, 2008). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture & Independent Online Learning | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Sara Accettura |
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