• Major arts-based inquiry with a reflective essay on what you learned and what questions emerged 70%
• Group literature review 20%
• Attendance/weekly writing shared in class 10%

NOTES:

Arts-based inquiry requires active participation, thoughtful dialogue, and collaborative engagement in all classroom activities. Evaluation will be based upon the learning of each student as illustrated in their written and practical work, integration of theory and practice in their writings, creative and critical engagement and reflection. Students will be encouraged to keep a weekly autobiographical writing practice, which will inform all of their work during the semester.    

a. Major arts-based inquiry: Performance piece, visual arts installation, and/or writing that may be individual or collaborative in nature, that draws from an inquiry in an arts medium outside the student’s own arts practice.

Choose an arts medium with which you are unfamiliar with and design an arts-based inquiry to explore your learning through working in this new arts medium. Maintain fieldnotes to track your feelings, insights, observations, questions as they emerge over the course of the inquiry. It is not intended that a polished performance piece will result from this inquiry, however, a representation of the inquiry, and a sharing of your learning, insights, and implications for education (as broadly defined) is required. This may be a collaborative or individual project.
 
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b.  Arts –based Inquiry and Representation In consultation with course instructor(s), students will undertake an arts-based research project in an area of choice, read the pertinent literature, and present their work. An opportunity for a creative collaboration of arts-based research is possible if a group of students so wish.

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c.  Collective Arts-based Inquiry and Representation that may be engaged upon collectively with the entire class.

REFLECTIVE ESSAY
d.  Write a reflective essay interacting with the arts-based inquiry you explored (a or b or c), which highlights your learning, transformative moments, and how it will inform your future research and practice.  

2.  Group literature review

The group project is designed to give you the opportunity to work together, to research and share ways of inquiry and representation through the arts that are currently being practiced in the academy.   

Literature Review of all arts-based literature in an assigned arts-based methodology. Read and discuss the primary texts within an arts-based research methodology with a partner and then collaboratively write a literature review that will introduce readers to the methodology and the key literature that informs that methodology. This information will be presented to classmates. The purpose of this assignment is to familiarize students with the practice of literature reviews and to begin to become familiar with the literature of a particular arts-based research methodology.  

3. E-Postcards and/or Performative writing  
You will be encouraged to write weekly, based on performative/narrative/poetic and/or embodied moments of learning, and share with the class weekly. This performative writing practice is to open up spaces for cultivating a relationship to language, which is authentic, aesthetic, and alive. This performative writing practice is also to develop a practice of noticing, which is critical for artistic research and creation, and to engage in inquiry and knowledge dissemination.

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