Overview
In this unit you will plan and implement a creative arts project that will further develop your practice within your major. The parameters of the project will be negotiated with the teaching staff and approved by the Unit Coordinator. It is expected that this project will require a minimum of 10 to 12 hours per week of self-directed study. This project may be undertaken on your own or in a group. You will also critique the planning and implementation of this project in a scholarly reflective journal.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2020
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Discussions with students and the outcome of the projects.
The Creative Arts Project 2 has been a challenging unit for some of the students, with generally a positive response to the outcomes. As this has been delivered across campuses it has required a deal of communication between the lecturers. This has worked well. NB: There are no previous recommendations as this is the first delivery of this unit.
Continue to include this type of assessment as students are highly engaged with this type of work.
- Plan and implement a creative arts project in consultation with the teaching staff and approved by the unit coordinator
- Analyse and reflect on the planning and implementation of your creative arts project.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 1 - Project (applied) - 70% | ||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||
| 5 - Team Work | ||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Project (applied) - 70% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 6th Edition (APA 6th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
k.crone@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
During the first two weeks of term you will discuss with your supervisors the possible creative arts project that you will be working on this term. This will be varied depending on your discipline area and also what makes you tick. The project could take the guise of
- a one off performance that you are building toward
- a performance designed specifically for a targeted audience e.g. the young or the elderly
- being mentored by a professional practitioner
- producing a show for a festival
- you being a shadow to a professional practitioner, playing a supporting role.
The above are only suggestions but you must have made the decision by no later than the second week of term. You will need all the term time to develop, plan and implement your project.
Chapter
There are no assigned texts for this unit. Your lecturer will provide readings as appropriate to training throughout the term. Readings may be either hard copies or attached to the Moodle site for this unit.
Events and Submissions/Topic
No events or submissions required.
Module/Topic
Vacation Week: Unsupervised preparation for individual/collective creative arts project
Chapter
There are no assigned texts for this unit. Your lecturer will provide readings as appropriate to training throughout the term. Readings may be either hard copies or attached to the Moodle site for this unit.
Events and Submissions/Topic
No events or submissions required.
Module/Topic
During the next 7 weeks you will continue to work on your project making meeting times with your supervisor, checking in so they you are keeping on track. This opportunity is helping you to build your network in this region. You have two assessments that you can be working on as you go. Make sure you read the requirements of each of these assessments and check out the assessment rubrics for both.
Chapter
There are no assigned texts for this unit. Your lecturer will provide readings as appropriate to training throughout the term. Readings may be either hard copies or attached to the Moodle site for this unit.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment will be submitted in week 12.
Creative arts project presentation and portfolio 70% Due: Week 11 Friday (29 May 2020) 12:00 am AEST
Assessment 2 reflective essay Due: Week 12 Friday (5 June 2020) 12:00 am AEST
1 Project (applied)
You will be required to present your project portfolio as a live presentation to your cohort of students This presentation should be 10 - 15 minutes in length. The 2000 word document that you have created will form the basis of your presentation. You may use power point, multi-media platforms, photographic images as well as audio recordings, All of these you will have gathered over your project's 12 week tenure. You will be required to keep documentary evidence of your project from the beginning to the completion. This could involve photographs, videos, audio clips as well as a diary of events, meetings and or performance outcomes. You need to keep recording this as you go, so keeping an accurate diary of your schedule is paramount.This will form the basis of your project portfolio/presentation. The more evidence you can provide will support the learning you have gained from the experience. The project portfolio should be no longer than 2000 words, and should include at least 6 weeks of diary events.
Week 11 Friday (29 May 2020) 12:00 am AEST
Students will upload their portfolio presentations to MOODLE
Review/Exam Week Friday (12 June 2020)
Feedback will be given to students within two weeks of their submissions
You will be assessed on the knowledge you have gained over the 12 weeks of your project and the detail and effort you have put into your project portfolio.
- Documented evidence of 12 weeks of applying yourself to a project.25%
- Presentation includes photographic and or multi-media evidence of the work.20%
- Documented evidence of scheduled meetings and events over a 6 week period. 20%
- A well prepared and appropriate presentation of evidence 10 - 15 minutes in length 25%
- Accurate use of APA referencing 10%
- Plan and implement a creative arts project in consultation with the teaching staff and approved by the unit coordinator
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
You will be required to write about your artistic practice in the form of a 1500-2000 word reflective essay. Your reflection should include how you chose your project, what were your motivating factors. Did your vision meet with the reality of the project? What logistical problems if any did you encounter? What worked and what didn't work, and how you might approach things differently in the future. These questions will form the basis for your reflections.
The word count is considered from the first word of the introduction to the last word of the conclusion. It excludes the cover page, abstract, contents page, reference page and appendices. It includes in-text references and direct quotations.
Use 12 point Times New Roman font for the body of the essay.
1.5 spacing throughout
You may use sub-headings if you wish to organise your assignment. These may be in a different colour or different size font.
Include in-text references (citations) throughout the assignment.
Include a Reference List at the end of the assignment in APA style, 6th edition.
Do NOT cite from Wikipedia or other websites that do not have an acknowledged author
Week 12 Friday (5 June 2020) 12:00 am AEST
Students will upload their work to MOODLE
Exam Week Friday (19 June 2020)
Feedback will be given to students within two weeks of their submissions
- Well structured with logical format 25%
- Language in written document (spelling and grammar) 20%
- Appropriate and focused information 20%
- Detailed reflection of project 25%
- Accurate use of APA referencing 10%
- Analyse and reflect on the planning and implementation of your creative arts project.
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
