School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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  • Unit Title

    Creative Practice 2
  • Unit Code

    BPA4004
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Michael George WHAITES

Description

Students further develop and apply the technical skills acquired in BPA4002 Creative Practice 1 to a significant performing arts project. The creative work can be undertaken as an individual or in the context of a collaborative company. Students will be guided through workshops and creative development presentations as they work towards a final performance or creative project.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed BPA4001

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply refined technical skills to the demands of a specific performing arts project.
  2. Reflect on creative and technical process, including collaboration, in the role assigned.
  3. Successfully plan and present a performance or creative project outcome to a professional industry standard.

Unit Content

  1. Performer-training techniques and approaches to skills development.
  2. Reflective practice for performing arts practitioners to build knowledge and skills.
  3. Approaches to the creative process in the performing arts.
  4. Eliciting and utilising feedback to develop skills and improve the quality of creative projects.
  5. Presenting performing arts output in professional formats including but not limited to work-in-progress studio presentations, performances in theatre venues, portfolios of photo and video documentation or short video works among others.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered15 x 2.5 hour workshopNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

The project is likely to be directly or indirectly supported by the research undertaken in the thesis/exegesis unit. Larger projects may be spread across Creative Projects 1 and 2, subject to approval.

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
Reflective PracticeReflective writing assignment on creative process and collaboration skills20%
PortfolioCreative process documentation30%
ProjectPerformance project50%

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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