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

    Industry Secondment
  • Unit Code

    BPD3260
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Leisa Marie LANDRE-ORD

Description

This unit provides a professionally supervised work integrated learning experience in the entertainment industry. The student is to undertake a four to six week, full-time placement with a professional local, national or international arts organisation, chosen and arranged by the individual student. The placement acts as an opportunity to refine work place skills, establish an industry network and gain further applied understanding of the arts industry within different cultural contexts. As such it is important that students assume a level of personal responsibility in researching and selecting potential industry placements.

Equivalent Rule

Replaces BPD3250

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Determine the use of theory in improving organisational practice.
  2. Evaluate personal work skills and determine which require further refinement.
  3. Calculate an appropriate entry point into the profession.
  4. Identify what is required to be an effective company employee within the professional work environment.

Unit Content

  1. Involvement in the operations of the host company.
  2. Exposure to the company's overall functioning.
  3. Personal attributes required for arts employment.
  4. The relationship between a company's management, administration, production and performance/artistic staff.
  5. Workplace observations and research and application to theory.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Work experience

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PracticumWork place performance100%

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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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

    Industry Secondment
  • Unit Code

    BPD3260
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Leisa Marie LANDRE-ORD

Description

This unit provides a professionally supervised work integrated learning experience in the entertainment industry. The student is to undertake a four to six week, full-time placement with a professional local, national or international arts organisation, chosen and arranged by the individual student. The placement acts as an opportunity to refine work place skills, establish an industry network and gain further applied understanding of the arts industry within different cultural contexts. As such it is important that students assume a level of personal responsibility in researching and selecting potential industry placements.

Equivalent Rule

Replaces BPD3250

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Determine the use of theory in improving organisational practice.
  2. Evaluate personal work skills and determine which require further refinement.
  3. Calculate an appropriate entry point into the profession.
  4. Identify what is required to be an effective company employee within the professional work environment.

Unit Content

  1. Involvement in the operations of the host company.
  2. Exposure to the company's overall functioning.
  3. Personal attributes required for arts employment.
  4. The relationship between a company's management, administration, production and performance/artistic staff.
  5. Workplace observations and research and application to theory.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Work experience

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PracticumWork place performance100%

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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