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This course is primarily aimed at high-level practitioners from a wide cross-section of the arts community who wish to extend their independent capacity to operate in an increasingly multi-art form and technologically-based profession. Students will be required to research, devise and produce new works of art, or develop new approaches to arts practice. It is expected that this activity will be a contemporary expression of traditional arts practice leading towards new insights in the selected field of study. The work will be exploratory, frequently based around emerging methodologies of arts research, leading usually to a performance, presentation, exhibition or publication of significance. Specifically, the course aims to create opportunities for innovation and creativity in the arts; use the resources of the Academy to create leadership opportunities for people who can offer the arts informed direction, and identifiable and marketable skills, to advance the Australian cultural environment into the next decade; provide opportunities for people from diverse ethnic and creative arts backgrounds to synthesise disparate artistic skills to produce innovative and creative outcomes for the arts industry; and build upon and extend the traditions and conventions of the student's earlier training to create new knowledge for the arts.
This course information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester. In particular please check the course requirements and the unit and unit set offerings, as these differ according to course delivery location.
All students are required to attend an audition. The candidate is expected to undertake an audition (all performance and directing) and/or interview (composition, musicolology and other forms of historic study) for the staff in the relevant area. Information on this requirement will be available from the area head on application.
| Unit Code | Unit Title | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|
| MAP5116 | Performing Arts Research Preparation | 30 |
| MAP5120 | Masters Thesis Development 1 | 30 |
| Unit Code | Unit Title | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|
| MAP5115 | Arts Issues | 30 |
| MAP5130 | Masters Thesis Development 2 | 30 |
| Unit Code | Unit Title | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|
| Students are required to continue re-enrolling in the thesis component of their study until the thesis is submitted for examination. | ||
| MAP6200 | Masters Thesis | |
For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.
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