School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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  • Unit Title

    Applied Arts Law
  • Unit Code

    ADM3600
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Vahri MCKENZIE

Description

This unit provides students with the skills and confidence to work successfully in an arts organisation in full compliance with legal obligations and in accordance with the interests of the organisation, community and artists. Students examine governance obligations imposed by law on individuals and organisations, codes of practice and law that affect arts creators and consumers, and the complexities of protecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural rights and interests. Students also apply their knowledge and skills in an industry practicum program that focuses on the production planning and delivery process.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Recognise the legal structures and the obligations for good governance imposed by Australian and equivalent international law on individuals and organisations involved in the management of arts organisations and projects.
  2. Apply knowledge of legal regulations in the arts and make recommendations for compliance by specific organisations.
  3. Appraise legal and moral obligations as they apply to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and arts practices.
  4. Apply an awareness of consumer protection regimes regarding the integrity of the art market, ticketing, public paid and free events, and the role of codes of practice and policies.
  5. Apply knowledge of the systems regulating employment in the arts and employ occupational health and safety obligations as they relate to arts and volunteer organisations and their officers.

Unit Content

  1. Legal compliance for arts organisations and events.
  2. Australian consumer law.
  3. Torts, duty of care and negligence.
  4. Contract law, with specific application to the arts and creative industries.
  5. Legislation and regulations impacting arts and events: public health, occupational health and safety, liquor, working with children, industrial relations and taxation.
  6. Moral rights and attribution as they apply to the arts and creative industries, including those related to Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property.
  7. Codes of practice in the arts and creative industries.
  8. Legal issues impacting international arts activities, for example, touring, producing, employment and sales.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered9 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will attend a series of classes and engage in learning activities through the ECU Learning Management System. In addition, students will undertake an industry practicum. Note: Normally, students studying on-campus undertake the industry practicum at WAAPA/ECU. Students studying online undertake the practicum with an approved local arts company/institution or cultural organisation.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseOnline test(s)30%
ProjectGroup analysis project30%
Practicum ^Industry practicum (supervisor report and reflection)40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseOnline test(s)30%
ProjectGroup analysis project30%
Practicum ^Industry practicum (supervisor report and reflection)40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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