School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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  • Unit Title

    Career Pathways
  • Unit Code

    DAN3410
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan PEACOCK

Description

This unit facilitates and supports the student’s transition into the workplace. Students can apply for a range of professional placement opportunities, either with a dance company, independent artist or an arts affiliated organisation. A recently expanded field of options include the health and fitness industries, dance service organisations, mentored teaching or choreographic opportunities and community dance projects. Self-promotion, career planning, workplace expectations, networking and basic arts administration skills underpin the practical learning experience and prepare the student for a range of employment options within the dance industry. Emphasis is placed on career research and the development and application of elevated communication skills.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Produce a professional portfolio that exhibits achievements and identifies opportunities for future development.
  2. Apply basic project management and marketing skills in the context of independent practice within the Australian arts environment.
  3. Collaborate with peers to prepare and present a group project suitable for a professional environment.
  4. Research available and aspirational opportunities and prepare an achievable 5-year plan.
  5. Apply knowledge of appropriate professional conduct, networking and ethical behaviour to support professional success.

Unit Content

  1. The Australian Dance context: arts organisations, companies, independent artists, service organisations and education.
  2. Self-assessment, strengths and weaknesses, self- promotion, professional portfolio elements.
  3. Funding bodies, festivals, grant applications and marketing.
  4. Legal concerns: contracts, copyright, MEAA and the independent artist.
  5. An international perspective, touring.
  6. Career planning and being independent.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Full YearNot Offered17 x 1.5 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (off-campus)

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional separate from an ECU campus or location.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will participate in seminars group discussions, guest lectures and analysis of workplace protocols and conventions. This is an opportunity to benchmark and evaluate performance in relation to others in the workplace.

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
ProjectGroup Project40%
PortfolioProfessional Portfolio (including a CV, EOI, a Five-year Career Plan and Secondment Journal)60%

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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