Advanced Diploma in Performing Arts

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:

• Investigate and implement the history and philosophy of research in performing and creative industry context.
• Examine and interpret the research process within the Africanisation and creative industries context.
• Explore ways of reasoning, both ordinary and scientific, within the Africanisation and creative industries context.
• Interrogate and indicate types of research, including qualitative, quantitative, and practice-led research.
• Scrutinise and demonstrate ethics in research.
• Interrogate the fundamental requirements for compiling a research proposal.
• Explore and substantiate the fundamental requirements for writing a dissertation/thesis in a performing arts context.
• Scrutinise and demonstrate critical writing skills.
• Discuss African and Western philosophies relating to dance choreography and studio practice in a South African setting.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:

• Apply research on interpretive understanding and problem analysis of Performance and Dance Technique theories.
• Demonstrate detailed knowledge, techniques, and applications within paradigms of the children's choir, small vocal ensemble, and female and male voice groupings.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of vocal techniques and appropriate methods of singing.
• Formulate and resolve complex problems in musical interpretation and integrate detailed knowledge of musical and performance aspects.
• Create and prepare a performance displaying acting range across various styles and media.
• Link theory to practice of a selected directing style and critically evaluate vocational aptitude.
• Produce a short multi-lingual script reflecting societal language varieties.
• Skillfully apply expressionism, abstract expressionism, and minimalism in somatic performance.
• Analyse and understand stylised musical theatre performance.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:

• Implement a business plan proposal for a creative enterprise based in cultural economics.
• Establish knowledge and understanding of music nationalism within Western and African choral music genres.
• Investigate existing South African repertoire based on Mahubo, Ingoma, and Afrikaans traditional folk melodies.
• Demonstrate techniques for identifying traditional South African folk melodies within the oral tradition.
• Apply appropriate methods of documentation within the performing arts context.
• Demonstrate knowledge, understanding, and skill in South African and contemporary music composition.
• Demonstrate arranging techniques for Jazz ensemble in African, American Jazz, and contemporary genres.
• Collect, analyse, and critically evaluate information for writing a formal essay.
• Compile relevant production information for a live theatrical event and summarise practical implementation processes.
• Present digital reports.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:

• Discuss, conceptualise, and strategise a proposal to enhance the cultural economics of an African community.
• Articulate the social, artistic, and economic relevance of performing arts professional practice.
• Demonstrate insight, knowledge, and understanding of multi-disciplinary professional practice.
• Produce internationally competitive products in the technology sphere.
• Produce a short script adapted from a source work.
• Demonstrate application of musical theatre composition through theoretical knowledge and practical execution of styles.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:

• Identify and implement personal abilities and key responsibilities within a multi-disciplinary production team.
• Investigate primary industry trends within the performing arts.
• Reflect on individual skills and personal relevance in the discipline and industry.
• Demonstrate understanding of technical roles in a professional theatre environment.
• Demonstrate core safety elements during production.
• Apply knowledge of physical and technical theatre aspects.
• Cultivate theatre ethics and etiquette.
• Understand ensemble work and interaction in a group situation.
• Demonstrate communication with an audience.
• Develop a personal development plan and apply self-directed learning.
• Demonstrate improvement of skills and application in the professional performance environment.
• Demonstrate technical facility and improvisational techniques.
• Interrogate and demonstrate Professional Performance Practice.
• Examine and establish critical evaluation of own performances and those of others.
• Apply self-reflection connected to theory, technique, and industry demands.
• Conceptualise and translate a play from page to stage.
• Explore vocal branding and apply it to define a 'personal vocal brand'.
• Design, execute, and reflect on a theatre intervention plan within the university community.

Integrated Assessment:

• Utilise formative and summative assessments aligned to specific criteria and NQF Level 7 Descriptors.
• Ensure validity and reliability of assessments.
• Communicate outcomes and assessment criteria clearly to learners.
• Employ various assessment methods such as practical evaluation, applied assignment, collaborative assignment, critical discussion, journaling, presentations, projects, reflective essay, theoretical assessment, written assessments, and examinations.
• Conduct Work Integrated Learning through simulation and experiential learning.
• Encourage reflective, reflexive, and applied enquiry towards learning.
• Promote a balance of experiential and theoretical assessments.
• Ensure fairness, transparency, and accessibility in assessment practices.