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MUS 293A/B : Performance Skills for Singers 2
Creative Arts and Industries
2025 Semester One (1253) / Semester Two (1255) (15 POINTS)
Course Prescription
Course Overview
This course aims to provide students with tools and practical skills needed to engage fully with the professional stage. Modules in languages and stagecraft lead to a professional-level production.
The module teaches linguistic concepts, models and practices phonetics in workshops, and enhances learning through peer collaboration. Students will also study foundational drama and stagecraft techniques through applied assignments, experimenting with scene partnering and scene building in workshop scenarios.
Capabilities Developed in this Course
| Capability 1: | People and Place |
| Capability 2: | Sustainability |
| Capability 3: | Knowledge and Practice |
| Capability 4: | Critical Thinking |
| Capability 5: | Solution Seeking |
| Capability 6: | Communication |
| Capability 7: | Collaboration |
| Capability 8: | Ethics and Professionalism |
Learning Outcomes
- Prepare, plan and execute music in dramatic contexts (Capability 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1 and 8.2)
- Create and refine a character for performance (Capability 3.1, 4.1, 5.1 and 6.1)
- Work collaboratively with students onstage and staff offstage (Capability 1.1, 1.2, 6.1 and 7.1)
- Develop an onstage relationship with a scene partner (Capability 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1 and 8.2)
- Demonstrate an understanding of languages in a vocal-dramatic context (Capability 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1 and 6.1)
Assessments
| Assessment Type | Percentage | Classification |
|---|---|---|
| Practical Stagecraft assessments | 25% | Individual Coursework |
| Assignments (Linguistics) | 25% | Individual Coursework |
| Practical performance assessments | 50% | Individual Coursework |
| 3 types | 100% |
| Assessment Type | Learning Outcome Addressed | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| Practical Stagecraft assessments | ||||||||||
| Assignments (Linguistics) | ||||||||||
| Practical performance assessments | ||||||||||
If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, please complete an application for extension form at the following link
https://www.forms.auckland.ac.nz/en/student/creative-arts-and-industries/te-whare-o-ng_-pkrero-poro---school-of-music-undergraduate-exten.html
You must submit your extension application as early as possible before the assignment due date.
Late assignments that do not have an approved extension will be penalised 10% for each day or part thereof and will be automatically deducted on CANVAS. No assignment will be accepted after that assignment has been returned to students.
Teaching & Learning Methods
This is a participatory workshop context, with the development of skills in the A component and a performance outcome at the end of the B component. All students are expected to collaborate, contribute, and be present for all components of the course. The A component stagecraft and linguistics modules take a seminar structure in which students are expected to engage consistently. Students will be expected to be fully prepared musically before entering the rehearsal space for the performance outcome, and to engage professionally with staff that work with them individually and in groups in shaping their character and bringing the score to life.
Workload Expectations
This course is a standard 15 point course and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in each 15 point course that they are enrolled in.
For this course, you can expect 24 hours of seminars, approximately 50 hours of guided rehearsal, and 76 hours of independent preparation for the assessments.
Delivery Mode
Campus Experience
Attendance is required at scheduled activities to complete components of the course.
Learning activities including seminars, workshop sessions, and coachings will not be available as recordings.
The course will not include live online events.
Attendance on campus is required for the assessments.
The linguistics and stagecraft seminars are scheduled as weekly timetabled sessions. Performance rehearsals are scheduled with input from students' timetables.
Learning Resources
Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).
Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.
Health & Safety
Student Feedback
At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.
Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.
Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.
Students are encouraged to contact the course coordinator to give informal feedback.
Other Information
Attendance in class as well as engagement with course activities and readings is vital to academic success. Owing to the nature of music teaching and learning, consistent attendance is essential at all lectures, tutorials, and studio lessons. Students must make every effort to attend class and complete all the necessary in-class requirements. All planned absences of two weeks or more (such as overseas competitions, family events, masterclasses or work-related commitments) must be pre-approved by the Head of School. If approval is given, all Course Coordinators, Tutors and other teachers must be informed of your absence in advance. Unplanned absences relating to illness, bereavement, or other emergencies can only be excused with appropriate evidence from the University doctor, counsellor or other official source. It is students’ personal responsibility to make up all work missed, as individual catch-up classes will not be available.
Academic Integrity
The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework, tests and examinations as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against electronic source material using computerised detection mechanisms. Upon reasonable request, students may be required to provide an electronic version of their work for computerised review.
Class Representatives
Class representatives are students tasked with representing student issues to departments, faculties, and the wider university. If you have a complaint about this course, please contact your class rep who will know how to raise it in the right channels. See your departmental noticeboard for contact details for your class reps.
Inclusive Learning
All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.
Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website http://disability.auckland.ac.nz
Special Circumstances
If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.
If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.
This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.
Learning Continuity
We undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions, the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and your assessment is fair, and not compromised. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. In the event of a disruption, the University and your course coordinators will make every effort to provide you with up to date information via Canvas and the University website.
Student Charter and Responsibilities
The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html.
Disclaimer
Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.
In this course you may be asked to submit your coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. The final decision on the completion mode for a test or examination, and remote invigilation arrangements where applicable, will be advised to students at least 10 days prior to the scheduled date of the assessment, or in the case of an examination when the examination timetable is published.