Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

One condition of late modernity is rapid change and an increasing rate of change. This unit will address the drivers of change, the impact change has now and is likely to have in the mid and long term and how the creative industries respond to these larger societal forces. An understanding of the dynamics of these forces is crucial for creative industries practitioners and professionals in order to shape a future characterised by the creation of innovative action, forms and thought.

Aims

The unit aims to introduce students to economic, cultural, environmental and social paradigm shifts precipitated by accelerating rates of change, with focus on some of the major intellectual and philosophical paradigms: Indigenity, Pre-Socratic Greek tradition, Eastern Philosophy, The Enlightenment and Modernity and Post-Modernity. These traditions will be mapped to the concept of habits of mind. Within the context of this broad environmental scan students will gain distinctive theoretical and practical information about the ways in which technology, human creativity and innovation, interdisciplinarity and enterprise are being used in the evolving field of the creative industries.

Objectives

At the completion of this unit, you will be able to:

1. Employ philosophical and historical tools to critically analyse your role as a creative practitioner.
2. Identify key drivers of change in the contemporary landscape of creative practice.
3. Identify social, creative, economic and environmental opportunities nascent in futures scenario building within a Creative Industries context.
4. Design and deliver a project which incorporates a cross-dsicipline approach to a creative work.

Content

Generic Attributes:
On completion of this unit you will be able to demonstrate:
- Critical and analytical thinking capabilities
- Communication skills for critical and analytical thinking - both written and oral
- Advanced technological literacy
- Advanced information literacy
- Professional networking capabilities.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

This unit will involve a combination of lectures and seminars with flexible online material and discussions in which students will be able to receive specialised, group-based and informal understandings of unit subject matter. The unit is designed to encourage critical inquiry and intellectual debate. Through research activity and class participation, students will be provided with opportunities to demonstrate innovative thinking as it relates to the Creative Industries and relate these concepts to workplaces in the creative economy. This unit fosters a commitment to professionalism and ethical practice.

Assessment

LATE ASSIGNMENTS
An assignment submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.

Faculty Assessment Information
To access complete Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information please refer to the Blackboard site for this unit.FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
The unit will be taught using a combination of lectures, group work, structured online exercises, contemporary Australian and international case study analyses and online group discussions to achieve the objectives of the unit. Formative feedback will be given via Blackboard on all assessment items prior to submission.

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
In order to demonstrate competencies in all the objectives in this unit, you need to complete all items of assessment.

You will be awarded a final grade on a 1 to 7 scale.

Assessment name: Creative Work/Report
Description: In groups (to be negotiated with/by your tutor during the semester) choose one of the major paradigms discussed in the lectures and tutorials and develop a Creative Industries work (to be discussed with your tutor prior to submission) that demonstrates an understanding of that paradigm and locates a creative practice within the context of the paradigm.

You will also hand in a written report or exegesis of your creative work (of between 2,500 and 4,000 words), and your group will give a 5-7-minute oral presentation discussing your work and answering questions from the class.
Relates to objectives: 3 & 4
Weight: 60%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Group with Individual Component
Due date: End of Semester

Assessment name: Discussion Forum
Description: Respond to weekly online discussions. You are required to write six responses of 400-500 words each. These responses should address a range of stimulus statements and discuss your creative or professional practice; what your work 'means'; what the values are that drive you i.e. social, aesthetic, economic, etc. They will contexualise your creative or professional practice in the broader landscape of your field now and in the future. They must also demonstrate a clear engagement with the course materials, including lectures, readings and stimulus statements made available. Assessment will be discussed in class.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2 & 3
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: External
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Throughout Semester

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

Required Text
Required and recommended readings will be made available through Course Materials Database.

Risk assessment statement

There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks for this unit.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 13-Sep-2012