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

This is a multi-part unit.
In order to become an active professional artist within a creative industries environment, you need to develop your disciplinary skills and understandings in a broad interdisciplinary context, which acknowledges the important nexus between theory and practice. Your work environment is likely to be project-based and you therefore need to also develop effective project management skills and self-reliance in planning, realising and producing your creative work.

Aims

This unit aims to consolidate and advance the learning and exploration of previous professional project units into the final iteration of your practice-led inquiry, presented through original creative or performance work(s) in a public setting, which is assessed by industry peers. The accompanying exegesis aims to provide you with literacy skills to effectively articulate, contextualise and reflect on your field of practice and your own creative processes and outcomes.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to:
1. create, realise and evaluate an original creative work;
2. extend the reach and depth of your practice in innovative ways;
3. display advanced professional skills in your discipline;
4. apply theoretical knowledge in critically analysing your practice;
5. apply time-management skills in planning and realising your creative project and exegesis;
6. engage in collaborative practice;
7. employ appropriate information literacy and retrieval skills.

Content

The unit addresses content such as a practice-led project which is characterised by focussed experimentation and innovation. The project may be a development from works created in the previous two project units or may be a new work which extends, or interrogates differently, concepts explored in the previous two works. The second component articulates, contextualises and provides a critical analysis of the processes and outcomes of the MFA journey through a reflective practice exegesis. Interdisciplinary collaborations are encouraged.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

Self-directed study supported by regular meetings with your supervisor who will provide guidance and mentorship, including feedback on exegetical drafts and on your creative work. You will be assisted in planning and gathering the resources required for your creative project and its implementation. Collaboration, peer and industry feedback is encouraged as part of your learning cycle, as is a creative journal and a program of activities to maintain your discipline skills.

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 the Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information see the Blackboard site for this unit.

Grading
You will be awarded a final grade on a 1-7 scale.FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
A learning contract with your supervisor will be developed in the first two weeks of the semester outlining the formal and informal mechanisms to support your learning, which will provide ongoing feedback on both your creative work and your written articulation of that work. Weight 0%

Assessment name: Professional practice
Description: (Summative and Formative) Creation and production of a creative work.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6
Weight: 75%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End of project

Assessment name: Exegesis
Description: (Summative and Formative) Written reflection on practice.
Relates to objectives: 4, 5 & 7
Weight: 25%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End of project

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

There is no set text for this unit.

Recommended References

Appropriate discipline and contextual texts and references will be advised as required.

Risk assessment statement

For dance students this unit will involve physical work primarily in purpose-built dance studios and industry standard performance venues. If projects are site-specific or in non-dance venues, you are required to comply with the standard health and safety regulations, and take appropriate precautions to minimise risks. Full physical participation in any class / rehearsal is subject to compliance with safe dance practice. Physical challenges are an inherent part of dance practice. The development of essential risk-management skills that minimise potential injury is a high priority with all lecturing staff and supervisors. You are taught safe dance principles as life-long learning skills and it is expected that you apply them in this unit. Due to the athletic nature of dance training, the dance department and its external supervisors will provide the necessary duty of care in emergency situations through its first-aid and health and safety arrangements. Access to on-campus doctors and dance physiotherapists is possible at short notice.

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