Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 2 2013

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

Rationale

The Honours project is the major component of the Honours year in Creative Industries. As the Honours year builds upon your completed undergraduate degree, the project gives you the opportunity to pursue in-depth project or dissertation-based work unavailable and inappropriate at undergraduate level. This work thus demonstrates advanced competence, skills or analytical ability in a chosen discipline and/or interdisciplinary skills or analytical ability.

To that end, you will be required to write or produce a sustained work that investigates in depth a research or creative practice question.

Aims

This unit aims to enable you to:
1. Articulate a research question in the form of a dissertation, or Reflect upon a question of professional or creative practice;
2. Write to a high standard a sustained work of research or exegesis;
3. Articulate a theoretical basis for your project;
4. Demonstrate advanced-level research skills;
5. Present a thesis or exegesis based on your research or a practice/studio component.

Objectives

1. Knowledge of research in a discipline or interdisciplinary field in the Creative Industries
2. Ability to place your professional, creative or critical practice in that field
3. Competency in understanding the relationship of theory and practice
4. Skills in synthesizing various theories and processes in your chosen area of research
5. Skills in developing an argument in relation to knowledge around a research question or an issue in creative practice

Content

This unit content addresses your regular meetings with your supervisor. Depending on the nature of your supervision, you may meet with your supervisor individually, or in groups.

In these sessions, and in carrying out the tasks that follow from your discussions, you will, under direction from your supervisor:
* Formalise and plan a project in your chosen area and define its scope appropriate to an Honours-level project, as approved by your supervisor
* Define whether this project is to be examined as a 100% thesis or a practice-led work in which an exegesis will accompany the creative practice. Determine, with your supervisor, the relevant weighting of critical and creative work to the project.
* Define a thesis statement/hypothesis that delineates a research or creative practice question
* Review the literature on this topic
* Collect any necessary primary or secondary data, be it studio/performance practice, archival work, fieldwork, quantitative or qualitative data, textual analysis, direct observations, etc
* Agree on a method to collate, analyse, synthesise, and evaluate this data relevant to the project's conceptual and theoretical framework
* Develop a comprehensive, well-written argument (studio or performance or textual) that supports the thesis statement or hypothesis
* Present a project or dissertation in accordance with Faculty and University guidelines for Honours project work
* Present creative practice for examination as agreed with your supervisor and Faculty staff and arrange for this work to be archived.
* Present a framing document to accompany the examination of creative practice.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

You will meet regularly and frequently with your supervisor to discuss your progress on the project, and to raise any issues or problems that you have encountered. You should present your supervisor with drafts of your work throughout the year for comments and feedback. The culmination of the unit is for you to present the results of your work to two examiners for their evaluation.

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.The project is examined internally and externally and written reports and are sent to the Honours Coordinator and the Supervisors who forward them to the student, with the grade.

Assessment name: Project
Description: (Formative and Summative)
A project chosen from the following list:
* A research project presented as a 15 000 word thesis;
* A project that is focussed on creative work which will include a 5000 word exegesis that explicates the creative practice;
* A research project that demonstrates advanced professional practice and a 5000 word exegesis.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Weight: 100%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End of 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

There are no required texts for this unit.

As required, based on the nature of the project. Usually determined in consultation with your supervisor and/or the CI Honours Coordinator.

Risk assessment statement

Depending on your chosen field, there are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.

If you are a Visual Arts student, you are obliged to be familiar with and adhere to the Visual Arts Studio workplace health and safety policy. You should refer to the QUT Health and safety web site .

If you are a performing arts student (e.g. dance, acting), you should are obliged to make yourself familiar with and adhere to the workplace health and safety policy relevant to that Discipline. All students should become familiar with the QUT Ethics process. You should be advised by your Supervisor as to potential risk assessment and Ethics approvals. You should also seek advice from your Supervisor and the QUT Ethics committee on any form of international travel associated with your research project prior to planning that travel.

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: 18-Sep-2012