PERF20028 - Creative & Performing Arts Project Development

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit provides students with the opportunity to develop a specialised, discipline-specific or interdisciplinary project brief for creative practice project-based study in the creative and performing arts at postgraduate level. This unit is comprised of practice, content and scholarly approaches negotiated by the Faculty and the student as being appropriate for the student's creative and scholarly creative and performing arts postgraduate project needs and interests. This is one of a suite of postgraduate project units designed for creative and performing artists to extend and improve their creative and/or performance practice through intensive, informed, reflective exploration and analysis, either independently or collaboratively. Students will only be permitted to enrol in this unit with prior agreement from a discipline supervisor. Students interested in enrolling in the unit should contact the unit coordinator before enrolling.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level Not Applicable
Credit Points 8
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.16666666666667
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the 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).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2024

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 1 - 2024

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).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 8-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 16.666666666667 hours of study per week, making a total of 200 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 100%

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

Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2017 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 4.5 (on a 5 point Likert scale), based on a 40% response rate.

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.

Source: Self reflection; staff feedback; student feedback and evaluation; 5 year Course Review
Feedback
Maintain face-to-face contact in workshop mode, alongside Moodle discussion list use for internal and external students
Recommendation
Keep face-to-face contact in workshop mode, alongside Moodle discussion list use for internal and external students again in 2017
Action Taken
Maintained face-to-face contact for students enrolled internally, and used the Moodle site as a way of engaging with both internal and distance students.
Source: Self reflection; student evaluation; 5 year Course Review
Feedback
It is difficult to maintain consistency of excellence in teaching and unit delivery with casual/short fractional staff contracts
Recommendation
Use continuing staff in teaching into unit and course
Action Taken
A new ongoing staff member was appointed in 2017; they coordinated all units within the course and provided stability across the year for all students.
Source: Self reflection; student feedback and evaluation; 5 year Course Review
Feedback
Maintain exhibition course related to student work and work-in-progress
Recommendation
Keep exhibition program related to student work and work-in-progress again in 2017
Action Taken
The exhibition program continued this year, with two student showcase exhibitions in 2017.
Source: Self reflection; staff feedback; student feedback; 5 year Course Review
Feedback
Explore possibility of more formal creative practice-led research training for those who want to continue to RHD training
Recommendation
Course to be revised in 2017, with possibility of including practice creative practice-led research training elective for those who want to continue to RHD training
Action Taken
CB82 has been discontinued as of 2017, with a new course (CL04) to be offered from 2018 including a range of new specialisations.
Source: self-reflection; staff feedback; student feedback
Feedback
Maintain face-to-face contact in internal mode, alongside Moodle engagement for internal and distance students.
Recommendation
Ensure face-to-face contact (including technology assisted face-to-face options) are available for students alongside the Moodle engagement.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: self-reflection; staff feedback; student feedback; broader feedback
Feedback
Maintain exhibition course related to student work and work-in-progress
Recommendation
Provide opportunity for student showcase exhibitions and support students to identify these opportunities externally to the university as well.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: self-reflection; student feedback
Feedback
Maintain strong project focus for assessment but provide more structured opportunities for feedback.
Recommendation
Provide a structured formative feedback opportunity by creating a draft deadline for the submission of the final project work.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to select a topic suitable for project work in the creative and performing arts at postgraduate level
  2. Understand and apply theories and practices of creative and performing arts project design and management, with an emphasis on Creative Enterprise context approaches
  3. Design a project proposal, contextualised within a scholarly and professional creative and performing arts context

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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
1 - Written Assessment • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Advanced Level
• Professional Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
1 - Knowledge • •
2 - Communication • •
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills • •
4 - Research • • •
5 - Self-management • • •
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Advanced Level
• Professional Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 - Written Assessment • • • • • •