Content Creation in the Field

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2015:

170 hours

Admission into MC-CULMC - Master of Cultural Material Conservation

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, Objectives, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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This field based subject critically frames cross-cultural work currently taking place inthe culture and heritage sector, and practically teaches students how to generate cultural conservation content accordingly, from community consultation, translation strategies, intellectual property protocols, working in partnership with all stakeholders and within a multidisciplinary team, to the technical needs of on-site documentation.

On completion of this subject students will:

• Develop an appreciation of cultural diversity, community sensitivities and a changing new media paradigms that exist within the cultural heritage and conservation sectors..
• Demonstrate a cross disciplinary understanding, to the resolution of project management issues in the field.
• Contextualise protocols and conventions relevant to fieldwork
• Act as informed advocates for ethical community conservation projects, actively engaging in critical policy issues and applying ethical frameworks.
• Build processes and skills required for documenting culture al conservation in a range of forms.
• Apply critical analysis to conservation projects using a social and cultural impact framework.
• Identify the changing social contexts of cultural production in community.
• Collaborate in the field within a multidisciplinary team
• Troubleshoot video, audio and lighting equipment.

Protocols document 500 words, 10% (due 29 June 2015), a multimedia report 2500 word equivalent, 50% (due 17 July 2015) and a 2000 word essay, 40% (due 27 July 2015)

A subject reader will be available in the pre-teaching period. Additional texts may be recommended.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.