Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and 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

    Creativity: Theory, Practice and History
  • Unit Code

    CCA1103
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit examines the importance and use of creativity in artistic and professional practice and will look at the theory, history and practices commonly associated with creativity. In addition, students will also be exposed to a range of tools and techniques for generating and working with creative ideasboth as individuals and in groupsso that they can establish those that work well in their particular context.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply a range of tools and techniques for generating and working with creative ideas.
  2. Describe the historical and cultural development of ideas concerning creativity.
  3. Discuss a range of creativity theories that explain the phenomenon of personal creativity.
  4. Discuss the role of creativity in artistic and professional practice, its impacts and the factors that influence its development.

Unit Content

  1. Action research.
  2. Concepts of creativity.
  3. Creative practices.
  4. Creativity debates.
  5. Individual and group practices for engendering creativity.
  6. Maintaining a creative practice.
  7. The Creative Industries.
  8. The historical development of ideas associated with creativity.
  9. The human mind and creativity.
  10. Theoretical definitions of creativity.
  11. Working with creative ideas to bring them to fruition.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Tutorials and Workshops.

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
AssignmentAssignment 130%
ProjectAssignment 270%

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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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and 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

    Creativity: Theory, Practice and History
  • Unit Code

    CCA1103
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit examines the importance and use of creativity in artistic and professional practice and will look at the theory, history and practices commonly associated with creativity. In addition, students will also be exposed to a range of tools and techniques for generating and working with creative ideasboth as individuals and in groupsso that they can establish those that work well in their particular context.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply a range of tools and techniques for generating and working with creative ideas.
  2. Describe the historical and cultural development of ideas concerning creativity.
  3. Discuss a range of creativity theories that explain the phenomenon of personal creativity.
  4. Discuss the role of creativity in artistic and professional practice, its impacts and the factors that influence its development.

Unit Content

  1. Action research.
  2. Concepts of creativity.
  3. Creative practices.
  4. Creativity debates.
  5. Individual and group practices for engendering creativity.
  6. Maintaining a creative practice.
  7. The Creative Industries.
  8. The historical development of ideas associated with creativity.
  9. The human mind and creativity.
  10. Theoretical definitions of creativity.
  11. Working with creative ideas to bring them to fruition.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Tutorials and Workshops.

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
AssignmentAssignment 130%
ProjectAssignment 270%

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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