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Unit Synopsis
This unit provides you with the opportunity to develop a specialised, discipline-specific or interdisciplinary project in the creative and professional industries at postgraduate level. This unit works alongside Creative and Professional Project 2 to allow you to deliver a significant single project outcome across these two units. This unit is comprised of practice, content and scholarly approaches negotiated between you and the teaching staff in order to develop a project appropriate to your creative, scholarly and professional interests that responds to the current trends and contexts of your chosen field. Using creative practice techniques, project-based learning and applied professional practice, you will create a project outcome aligned with your career and future aspirations.
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 |
PERF20029 is Anti-Requisite. Please note: PERF20029 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 2 - 2019
Term 2 - 2019 Profile
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. Presentation | 30% |
| 2. Portfolio | 70% |
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
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site.
Term 1 - 2019 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 5.00 (on a 5 point Likert scale), based on a 33.33% 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; student feedback
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.
Continued to informally schedule zoom sessions for students as a group, to great success.
Source: student feedback
Consider shifting the due date for the first assessment task to provide more time.
Provide clarity in the assessment task information as to the reasoning for the due date, and also seek feedback from students in Term 2, 2018 about assessment 1.
Adjusted the assessment task criteria sheet, and included online messaging on Moodle to help inform assessment preparation.
Source: self-reflection
There is not as much scaffolding of discipline content in this unit.
Investigate whether more scaffolding is required in the unit, or if this will interfere with the flexibility of the project work.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Identify and assess the skills acquired and processes involved in the investigation of creative or professional practice in an advanced level practice-based creative or professional project
- Produce a creative artefact or professional project, including work-in-progress, that has relevance to the broader creative and professional industries
- Evidence and evaluate project management skills, such as time management, and project timeliness
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Presentation | • | • | |
| 2 - Portfolio | • | • | • |
| 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 - Presentation | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||
| 2 - Portfolio | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||