School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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  • Unit Title

    Strategic Arts Management
  • Unit Code

    ADM3605
  • 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 units focuses on strategies pertaining to creating, developing and sustaining cultural practice, arts organisations, arts and entertainment events, festivals and cultural institutions. It considers best practice board governance and strategic planning, as well as key leadership styles that are responsible for delivering strategic objectives. Through a study of strategic financial planning, reporting and analysis, students apply skills in sound financial decision making and gain practical experience through the preparation of a funding application. In addition, students learn how to apply negotiation theory, dispute resolution techniques and forms of cross-cultural communication to the contexts of managing complex and diverse arts projects.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically evaluate an arts or cultural organisation, integrating appropriate governance and management theories and industry knowledge.
  2. Employ sustainable business decisions in an arts funding application.
  3. Devise an accurate and persuasive arts funding application.
  4. Produce a comprehensive business plan for a cultural organisation or project that is strategically aligned to contemporary policies and issues.
  5. Use negotiation, dispute resolution and/or cross-cultural communication skills in an arts management workplace.

Unit Content

  1. Corporate governance and responsibility and role of boards and directors.
  2. The role of the creative CEO and other key artistic and administrative personnel.
  3. Strategic, business and capital planning.
  4. Strategic resource management: digital planning and forecasting, targets and control, assets management, reporting and change processes.
  5. Alternative business models/strategic innovation.
  6. Collaboration and partnerships in the culture and arts sector.
  7. Philanthropy, fundraising and corporate sponsorship development strategies.
  8. Government funding sources and authorities.
  9. Funding applications and acquittals.
  10. Ethics, leadership, workplace culture and cross-cultural communication.
  11. Negotiation skills and dispute resolution skills.

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 Offered13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot 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.

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
Case StudyArts or cultural organisation evaluation30%
Creative WorkArts funding application (team assessment)30%
PortfolioArts management communication skills portfolio40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyArts of cultural organisation evaluation30%
Creative WorkArts funding application (team assessment)30%
PortfolioArts management communication skills portfolio40%

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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