European Theatre (Paris)

Course Structure

1. European Theatre and Dramaturgy (compulsory)
2. Mise en Scène: Aesthetics and Dramaturgies of European Theatre (Paris compulsory)
3. Theatre Practises: Paris Casebook (option)
4. Other options include: Creative Producing and Dramaturgy, Theatre Criticism, Theories of Art in Modern French thought, a language module, and modules from the University of Kent at Paris programme.
5. provide an internationally focussed taught Master’s programme that offers a sustained and intensive engagement with the forms, practices, traditions and histories of theatre, as well as current theoretical debates in the field
6. attract intellectually able and talented students from the UK and overseas to develop their analytical, critical, conceptual and methodological skills, and to prepare them for further postgraduate research beyond Master’s level, through their integration into the European Theatre Research Network (ETRN) or into the Centre for Cognition, Kinaesthetics and Performance (CKP), hosted by the University of Kent, the UK’s European University
7. enhance your conceptual understanding, creative skills and practical competences with a specific emphasis on the sensitivity for differing cultural contexts and practices, thereby equipping you with relevant competences and the confidence to engage with modes and patterns different to the established patterns and prepare you for future employment in the theatre sector and beyond
8. provide an excellent quality of higher education
9. provide flexibility and a multidiscipline approach
10. provide teaching informed by research and scholarship
11. meet the lifelong needs of a diversity of students
12. support national and regional economic success
13. build on close ties within Europe and elsewhere, reflecting Kent’s position as the UK’s European University
14. produce graduates of value to the region and nationally, in possession of key knowledge and skills, with the capacity to learn
15. prepare you for employment or further study
16. provide learning opportunities that are enjoyable experiences, involve realistic workloads, based within a research-led framework and offer appropriate support for students from a diverse range of backgrounds
17. provide high-quality teaching in supportive environments with appropriately qualified and trained staff.
18. the history, forms, practices, traditions and current configurations of drama, theatre and performance
19. advanced critical, artistic and conceptual paradigms in order to comprehend, interpret and intelligently engage with the work of significant practitioners and theorists in the field
20. variant aesthetic, aesthetic, political, social, and intellectual contexts of drama, theatre and performance
21. the wider interdependence of creative practice, critical theory, production processes and cultural policies
22. the inherent interdisciplinary and trans-national location and context of theatre art and performance practice, and its relation to the public and audiences
23. innovative, challenging and informed methods and practices of making performance, the processes of rehearsal, writing, scoring, devising, sceneography, choreography, staging, promotion and training techniques.
24. the ability to critically reflect, drawing on a range of sophisticated perspectives, about practices, theories, contexts and ideas that shape theatre today
25. an awareness of intercultural and international differences
26. the ability to engage creatively and imaginatively with textual, visual, and performed sources and artworks
27. the ability to appreciate and critically evaluate your own work and the work of others, demonstrating to listening, dialogue, and discussion
28. the ability to understand the interplay between theory and practice, and their mutual enrichment
29. the ability to devise, undertake and contextualise original research in a self-directed way
30. the ability to communicate ideas and information in an accessible and scholarly manner.
31. the ability to describe, analyse and critically interpret theatre texts, production techniques and performance events
32. the ability to trace, assess, and synthesise information and data from a range of appropriate sources in the field, both primary and secondary, printed, electronic, and other
33. the ability to undertake research at an advanced level
34. the ability to engage with bibliographical and documentation techniques, performance and textual analysis, as well as other research methodologies
35. the ability to use archives, texts, electronic technology and other knowledge resources in theatre studies and the wider disciplines of the humanities
36. the ability to support creative work with rigorous research, appropriate documentation, and efficient conceptual consideration
37. the ability to engage confidently and competently in advanced academic research at the forefront of the discipline
38. the ability to undertake a comparative study of practices and concepts from a diverse range of socio-cultural frameworks.
39. the ability to exercise independent thinking and to demonstrate skills of problem-solving and project planning
40. confidence in interacting, negotiating and collaborating with others
41. the ability to source, organise, articulate and disseminate advanced ideas appropriately and effectively, in a way that advances knowledge and adds value
42. the ability to engage in continuous self-reflection, in order to be able to expand one’s skills- and knowledge base
43. proficiency in presenting complex thoughts, arguments, and data in coherent and lucid ways, both verbally and in writing, pitched appropriately to a range of audiences
44. initiative in identify, create, address and successfully execute complex tasks and problems to a professional level.