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 given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Secondment and Industry Placement
  • Unit Code

    DAN3120
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan Desley PEACOCK

Description

This unit is designed to facilitate the transition from the institution to the workplace. As such it is important that students assume a level of personal responsibility in researching and selecting potential secondment placements. While many students select professional or semi-professional companies, students are encouraged to think about a broad range of options including service organisations, teaching positions, choreographic mentorships and community dance projects. This is an opportunity to benchmark and evaluate performance in relation to others in the workplace. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of skills in critical listening, written and oral communication, and basic research, to generate ideas and concepts in both written and oral formats. The importance of physical, social and cultural sustainability relating to artform practice and professional career paths is also embraced in this unit through: the choice or repertoire; duty of care in public performance environments; engagement with industry partners; building social and cultural confidence via exposure to diverse performance environments locally, nationally, regionally and internationally.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and assess the skills required in particular professional roles.
  2. Appreciate the breadth of the dance community and the broad range of roles and jobs people perform.
  3. Communicate and liaise effectively with various sectors of the dance community.
  4. Demonstrate development in literacy and research skills.
  5. Demonstrate initiative in the work place to develop networking skills.
  6. Demonstrate work place independence and self-discipline.
  7. Express in both oral and written formats clarity of ideas and concepts.
  8. Integrate professional attitudes in the workplace at all times and to respond to key features in the workplace environment appropriately.
  9. Organise, research and time manage preparation and presentation of work.

Unit Content

  1. Expression of ideas and concepts in both written and oral formats.
  2. Funding structures for the arts - the Australia Council, state funding bodies, community and council structures and private endowments.
  3. Performance venues.
  4. Research planning and critical desision making in assignment preparation and presentation.
  5. The Australian dance context - companies (national, state and local). The definitions and organisational differences between these companies.
  6. The independent artist.
  7. The links between the profession and education - the dance-in-education company.
  8. The role and function of the company's/ organisation's board - responsibilities and liabilities.
  9. The role of service organisations in the arts - the MEAA and Ausdance.
  10. The roles and functions of company staff members - artistic director, managers, publicists.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminar discussions, Performance analysis, Analysis of workplace protocols and conventions.

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
ExerciseProfessional Application (C-V's, Letters, Statement of Intent)20%
PresentationGroup presentation20%
ExerciseClassroom activities20%
PortfolioSecondment Reports (Five Year Plan)30%
JournalJournal10%

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Secondment and Industry Placement
  • Unit Code

    DAN3120
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan Desley PEACOCK

Description

This unit is designed to facilitate the transition from the institution to the workplace. As such it is important that students assume a level of personal responsibility in researching and selecting potential secondment placements. While many students select professional or semi-professional companies, students are encouraged to think about a broad range of options including service organisations, teaching positions, choreographic mentorships and community dance projects. This is an opportunity to benchmark and evaluate performance in relation to others in the workplace. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of skills in critical listening, written and oral communication, and basic research, to generate ideas and concepts in both written and oral formats. The importance of physical, social and cultural sustainability relating to artform practice and professional career paths is also embraced in this unit through: the choice or repertoire; duty of care in public performance environments; engagement with industry partners; building social and cultural confidence via exposure to diverse performance environments locally, nationally, regionally and internationally.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and assess the skills required in particular professional roles.
  2. Appreciate the breadth of the dance community and the broad range of roles and jobs people perform.
  3. Communicate and liaise effectively with various sectors of the dance community.
  4. Demonstrate development in literacy and research skills.
  5. Demonstrate initiative in the work place to develop networking skills.
  6. Demonstrate work place independence and self-discipline.
  7. Express in both oral and written formats clarity of ideas and concepts.
  8. Integrate professional attitudes in the workplace at all times and to respond to key features in the workplace environment appropriately.
  9. Organise, research and time manage preparation and presentation of work.

Unit Content

  1. Expression of ideas and concepts in both written and oral formats.
  2. Funding structures for the arts - the Australia Council, state funding bodies, community and council structures and private endowments.
  3. Performance venues.
  4. Research planning and critical desision making in assignment preparation and presentation.
  5. The Australian dance context - companies (national, state and local). The definitions and organisational differences between these companies.
  6. The independent artist.
  7. The links between the profession and education - the dance-in-education company.
  8. The role and function of the company's/ organisation's board - responsibilities and liabilities.
  9. The role of service organisations in the arts - the MEAA and Ausdance.
  10. The roles and functions of company staff members - artistic director, managers, publicists.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminar discussions, Performance analysis, Analysis of workplace protocols and conventions.

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
ExerciseProfessional Application (C-V's, Letters, Statement of Intent)20%
PresentationGroup presentation20%
ExerciseClassroom activities20%
PortfolioSecondment Reports (Five Year Plan)30%
JournalJournal10%

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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