School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit 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.

Please note that there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Digital Arts Experiences
  • Unit Code

    ADM3615
  • Year

    2023
  • 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 explores the accelerated digitalisation of the cultural sector by virtue of unpredictable disruptions to organisations dependent on a physical’ concept of the arts. Students examine the impact of digital technologies and immersive experiences on many aspects of the arts and creative industries, including accessibility, format, cultural consumption and new challenges organisations face in relation to funding and competition for audiences. Students also learn about how to incorporate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander material into digital arts projects, as well as how to work ethically and respectfully with Indigenous people and their communities.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically appraise historical, contemporary and theoretical contexts relevant to digital technologies in the arts and creative industries.
  2. Identify protocols and culturally appropriate practices for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their communities.
  3. Evaluate the effectiveness of technical and artistic strategies in the digital work of others.
  4. Respond to a digital creative arts industry brief pertinent to a range of audiences.

Unit Content

  1. The physical experience of culture and the viability of funding models.
  2. The role of digital technologies in the arts and creative industries.
  3. Conceptualising and creating immersive experiences, digital preservation and virtual heritage.
  4. Immersive technologies and producing content for these platforms.
  5. Protocols and culturally appropriate practices for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their communities.
  6. The digital capacity of arts organisations.
  7. The impact of digital culture on organisation of work, social inequality, access, consumer choice and consumption.
  8. Marketing, financing, licensing and commercialisation of digital arts products and formats.
  9. Vodcasting and visual presentation skills.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will attend a series of classes and engage in learning activities through the ECU Learning Management System. Students will also undertake a fieldtrip to analyse a digital arts project.

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
AssignmentWritten assignment20%
PresentationField trip report (vodcast)30%
ProjectResponse to industry brief50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentWritten assignment20%
PresentationField trip report (vodcast)30%
ProjectResponse to industry brief50%

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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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit 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.

  • Unit Title

    Digital Arts Experiences
  • Unit Code

    ADM3615
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Vahri MCKENZIE

Description

This unit explores the accelerated digitalisation of the cultural sector by virtue of unpredictable disruptions to organisations dependent on a physical’ concept of the arts. Students examine the impact of digital technologies and immersive experiences on many aspects of the arts and creative industries, including accessibility, format, cultural consumption and new challenges organisations face in relation to funding and competition for audiences. Students also learn about how to incorporate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander material into digital arts projects, as well as how to work ethically and respectfully with Indigenous people and their communities.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically appraise historical, contemporary and theoretical contexts relevant to digital technologies in the arts and creative industries.
  2. Identify protocols and culturally appropriate practices for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their communities.
  3. Evaluate the effectiveness of technical and artistic strategies in the digital work of others.
  4. Respond to a digital creative arts industry brief pertinent to a range of audiences.

Unit Content

  1. The physical experience of culture and the viability of funding models.
  2. The role of digital technologies in the arts and creative industries.
  3. Conceptualising and creating immersive experiences, digital preservation and virtual heritage.
  4. Immersive technologies and producing content for these platforms.
  5. Protocols and culturally appropriate practices for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their communities.
  6. The digital capacity of arts organisations.
  7. The impact of digital culture on organisation of work, social inequality, access, consumer choice and consumption.
  8. Marketing, financing, licensing and commercialisation of digital arts products and formats.
  9. Vodcasting and visual presentation skills.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will attend a series of classes and engage in learning activities through the ECU Learning Management System. Students will also undertake a fieldtrip to analyse a digital arts project.

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
AssignmentWritten assignment20%
PresentationField trip report (vodcast)30%
ProjectResponse to industry brief50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentWritten assignment20%
PresentationField trip report (vodcast)30%
ProjectResponse to industry brief50%

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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