Assessment Tasks	Weighting
Attendance and active participation	20%
In-class Quiz    Essay on Performance or Exhibition     Group Creative Arts Project:	20% 20% 40%

AT1 Attendance and active participation (20%)

Students are expected to participate actively in in-class discussions and tutorials.  Weekly lectures are intended to both present information, but also to generate participation.  The objective of the tutorials is to help students digest and apply the knowledge they learned from the classes through experiential learning.  There are 5 tutorials over the course of the semester.  Tutorials begin during week 3 and will continue biweekly (every other week). 

 

Tutorials 1, 2, 4, and 5 will be held in the arts studios at the Centre on Behavioral Health, 2/F Hong Kong Jockey Club Building for Interdisciplinary Research, 5 Sassoon Road (10 minute bus ride from the main campus).  Tutorial 3 will be held at the University Museum and Art Gallery.

 

AT2. In-class Quiz (20%)

Students are expected to complete 10 in-class quizzes starting from week 3. The format will be mostly in MC (multiple choices) questions. The content of each quiz will be based on the lecture on the same day. 

 

AT3 Reflective Essay on Performance or Exhibition (20%)

Students will attend a creative arts performance or exhibition of their choosing (outside of class time) and submit a reflective essay (1500-2000 words) pertaining to their experience.  The essay will consist of a brief description of the performance/exhibition, together with a detailed account of their experience as it relates to material and theories discussed in class.  Rather than write a critique, students will focus on the feelings, thoughts, sensations, and memories evoked in order to offer what they learned from the performance or exhibition as it relates to self, other, and/or world understanding.

 

AT4 Group Creative Arts Project: Presentation (40%)

In the Group Creative Arts Project, students will work in small group (6-8 persons) to design and develop a creative arts project that shows how arts can be used creatively in developing understanding of the world.  Students will create arts that express societal concerns on environmental, political, or other issues about human lives and communities.  Examples of topics may include a drama reflecting the misconception of mental illness; a dance showing the effects of internet addiction; art exhibition reflecting the concern of air pollution; songs and music expressing the life of people in lower socio-economic conditions; etc.  

 

In class presentations will be in the format of a 5 minute video (including the reflective statement) that documents the arts project. There will be a screening session and sharing for all the group performances during the last lecture (Apr 29, 2015). During the screening, videos will be shown in succession. There will be no in-class presentations, but students in the audience will submit feedback and responses to each video.

 

Details:

Students may use a single art modality or a combination of art modalities (visual art, dance, drama, poetry, creative writing, music,…).

 

The video should include the following:

• Arts project or performance: The format can be a recording of the performance/ exhibit, documentary style video or another creative presentation. Students should pay attention to the aesthetics of their video in terms of what people wear, background or setting, sound quality and lighting.

• Reflective statement: introduce and/or summarize the arts project (maximum of 2 minutes)