Concepts and Creativity 2 (Production)

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2015:

120 hours

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 provides the students with a context for understanding contemporary performing arts practice by introducing them to a broad cultural and historic perspective of creative endeavour including but not limited to visual art, architecture and performance in all forms.

This subject includes an embedded program in academic literacy skills of analysis, discussion, essay writing, research and information retrieval.

Students completing this subject should:

• have a understanding of the history of visual forms and skills in visual analysis;
• have a understanding of the principal methods of analysis employed in research of visual form;
• have developed oral skills for the discussion of visual forms and skills in essay writing relevant to the discipline of performing arts history, including presenting an argument, marshalling and documenting evidence, and basic bibliographic skills.

Essay (2000 words) (40%)

Presentation Power Point presentation delivered in pairs. (10 minutes) (500 words or equivalent) (20%)

Accompanying transcript and visual research folio. (1000 words or equivalent) (30%)

Participation (10%)

Class attendance is required for this subject; if you do not attend a minimum of 80% of classes without an approved exemption you will not be eligible for a pass in this subject. Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per day.

All assignment work must be submitted and a pass in each module must be achieved for successful completion of this subject.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• exhibit verbal and written communication skills
• understand how to place their own practice within a wider historical (political, social, aesthetic) context;
• discuss work with other practitioners in a constructive and informed manner;
• lead a discussion and to present ideas articulately and clearly;
• present opinions and analysis in classroom discussion;
• utilise effective library research skills, including the development of search strategies to find information from a variety of quality information resources, including online databases, books, journals, internet, and a variety of multimedia-rich resources;
• demonstrate effective time-management skills.