Brokering Cross-Sectoral Partnerships

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2009:

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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This subject will focus on developing the student's individual practice within a CCD context and in relationship to cross-sectoral partnership opportunity; incorporating community development, community education, health, and urban design sectors.

Case studies will be presented, which reflect the arts as cross-sectoral projects, indicating the diversity of partnership agendas. Students will be exposed to CCD projects as processes for social change; the arts in lifelong learning; the arts in urban development, art for place making and place marketing, the arts and wellbeing, and the arts responding to cultural diversity.

Studies will also examine strategies for negotiating partnerships; establishing collaborative approaches, team building across disciplines, and 'niche' market positioning for CCD project development.

Projects will be critically analysed and evaluated to enable students to gain a working knowledge of CCD project management approaches; facilitation and negotiation models; and integration strategies which can align the student's own particular artistic vision, with the key agendas of particular sectors.

On completion of this subject the student should be able to:

• understand and appreciate the place of the arts within non-arts settings;
• demonstrate the strategic thinking and planning to broker cross-sectoral partnerships;
• display an ability for the practical application of community cultural development theory;
• confidently communicate verbal and written skills;
• exhibit the skills to interpret, analyse and apply to individual practice;
• demonstrate an understanding of community cultural development practice;
• present a developed knowledge of the creative processes within art practice; and,
• express community cultural development theory and practice in an accessible form at community level, in both written and oral modes

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completion of this subject the student should be able to:

• understand and appreciate the place of the arts within non-arts settings;
• demonstrate the strategic thinking and planning to broker cross-sectoral partnerships;
• display an ability for the practical application of community cultural development theory;
• confidently communicate verbal and written skills;
• exhibit the skills to interpret, analyse and apply to individual practice;
• demonstrate an understanding of community cultural development practice;
• present a developed knowledge of the creative processes within art practice;
• express community cultural development theory and practice in an accessible form at community level, in both written and oral modes.