School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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  • Unit Title

    Interweaving Cultures in the Performing Arts
  • Unit Code

    BPA2405
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jeremy NEIDECK

Description

This unit introduces students to the international performance makers and landmark productions that influence contemporary intercultural and transcultural practices in the performing arts. Students critically examine how socio-political contexts shape performances and productions in intercultural and transcultural environments. By exploring international performing arts markets students formulate strategies for presenting their work or collaborating with other artists in a global context. Students also engage with the role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts workers and producers in international cultural relations.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Examine historical interactions between performance cultures and articulate their importance to contemporary performance practices and productions, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives.
  2. Critically reflect on various social, political and cultural positions within a performance and/or production process.
  3. Formulate strategies for presenting work or collaborating in transcultural and/or intercultural environments.

Unit Content

  1. Historical interactions between performance cultures, including those led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
  2. Theories of interweaving cultures in performance.
  3. Influential performance makers and landmark productions operating in transcultural and intercultural contexts.
  4. Strategies for collaboration in transcultural and intercultural contexts.
  5. Industry engagement to support students’ future career and leadership goals.
  6. The international performing arts market environment.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will attend a series of classes and engage in learning activities via 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
AssignmentAnalysis of a production in an intercultural context30%
ReportA written pitch for a project to be presented at an international performing arts market40%
PresentationA group pitch for a project to be presented at an international performing arts market 30%

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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