Module 'Master Thesis'

The aim of Master’s thesis is to demonstrate:
- theoretical and practical knowledge related to the speciality;
artistic and verbal expressive means;
- the student’s comprehensive approach to working with the material;
- the student’s ethical attitude to the material;
- the student’s values and attitudes;
- the student’s skills to complete and realize a practical performance project.

Upon defending the MA thesis, the student:
- can conduct independent research work and express verbally the concept of the performance;
- can create small- or large-scale hybrid and innovative performance projects by means of contemporary performance arts;
- invents visual-technical scenographic solutions as needed and possible;
- can apply scientific research methods in describing and analysing critically a performance project created independently or collectively;
- can evaluate the effect of the completed project on the audience on the basis of professional ethics;
- has achieved the academic level allowing them to continue their studies on PhD level.

The compilation and defence of the MA thesis is a mandatory requirement for the graduation from the curriculum. The creative and textual part of the thesis form a comprehensive whole in the curriculum.
The curriculum is considered completed once the mandatory project has been defended to a positive grade.

The module will be assessed by the joint Master's thesis evaluation committee of the specialities and Fine Arts pursuant to the assessment criteria set out by EAA.