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Unit Synopsis
This unit provides you with the opportunity to review, analyse, evaluate and communicate the relevant industry and arts knowledge and theoretical concepts necessary to develop a specialised, discipline-specific or interdisciplinary project brief for creative or professional practice project-based study in the creative and creative arts industries at postgraduate level. This unit is comprised of core content and materials and learning activities together with practice, content and scholarly approaches negotiated between you and the teaching staff. In this unit you will investigate the current trends and contexts of a creative or professional field, that relates to your creative, professional and scholarly needs and interests. Introducing project management theories and skills and advanced reflective writing techniques, this unit provides you with a framework to develop an extended creative and/or professional project.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 8 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
PERF20028 is Anti-Requisite. Please note: PERF20028 is 8 cp 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2019
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 Postgraduate 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.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Research Assignment | 70% |
| 2. Online discussion forum | 30% |
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%).
Past Exams
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No previous feedback available
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: student feedback
Some lack of clarity around availability and accessing required readings provided on the Moodle site.
Provide updated and improved instruction for accessing the required readings.
Provided updated and improved instruction for accessing readings - no longer any issues regarding availability.
Source: student feedback; self-reflection
Maintain the high level of relevant content on the Moodle that is useful for the assessment
Ensure available material is readable, accessible, up to date, and relevant to the assessment.
Have ensured all available material is up to date, interesting, and relevant.
Source: student feedback; self-reflection
Maintain the teaching support for distance and campus students provided through regular zoom sessions
Continue to informally schedule fortnightly zoom sessions to provide structured support for students without relying on only individual communication.
Have provided fortnightly (or more) online zoom sessions for students to attend.
Source: student feedback; self-reflection
Maintain central course meta-Moodle site for communication across multiple units
Ensure the use of the meta-Moodle site for the entire course, with specific attention paid to the Discussion Forum.
Have maintained the use of the meta-Moodle site for the entire course, with the Discussion Forum as the focus.
Source: self-reflection
Room to provide some more interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary content.
Investigate a wider array of content to provide more cross-disciplinary range.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Research and review a field of creative or professional practice within a relevant industry context
- Design and research a contextual review within a relevant industry context that responds to industry and scholarly trends
- Evaluate and apply theories and practices of creative and professional industries’ project design and management
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Research Assignment | • | • | • |
| 2 - Online discussion forum | • | • | |
| 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 | • | • | |
| 7 - Leadership | • | ||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |
| 1 - Research Assignment | • | • | • | • | • | ||||
| 2 - Online discussion forum | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||