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

    Project/Thesis Preparation and Development
  • Unit Code

    DAN5103
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Michael George WHAITES

Description

In this unit, students will continue with, and draw to conclusion, their investigations into the practices of dance, documenting their processes in an appropriate medium. The resulting performance/s, video and/or studies into associated areas are expected to be that equivalent to practitioners of professional standing. The unit can be undertaken in two modes of study: Individual research or Company research Individual Research: The student designs and implements a project, usually complementing their central research focus through performance, choreography, secondment, teaching dance or theoretical and/or applied research. The project is supervised by an appropriate staff member. Company Research: Students engage in work-place learning through activities conducted in a small company mode. Assessment of this unit is focused on the performance achievement of the student in the company's ongoing and major productions. Appropriate staff members and guest choreographers will supervise students.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from DAN5101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Individual research mode: Expand upon the thematic, structural and theoretical aspects in the performance of recognised choreographic work (performance research).
  2. Individual research mode: Appraise technical accomplishment and presentation in the performance of a new work (choreographic research).
  3. Individual research mode: Expand upon an aspect of a dance-related area of study so as to contribute to the knowledge/s of dance (pedagogical or other theoretical research).
  4. Company research mode: Demonstrate technical and expressive performance as is appropriate to the choreographer's vision.

Unit Content

  1. Company Research: Company management, promotion and production procedures.
  2. Individual Research: Discourse of chosen area of research.
  3. Strategies for the development of technique and creative contributions to the choreographic process.
  4. Documentation narratives and mediums.
  5. Roles and responsibilities on collaborative contexts.
  6. Evaluation strategies involving feedback from appropriate personnel.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered36 x 3.5 hour ensemblesNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Rehearsals, Practical teaching, Practical involvement, Performances, Problem-solving processes, Observation or performances and /or teaching, Reflection and analysis with supervisor.

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
AssignmentExternal examination of research in practice/project25%
PerformanceAssessment for development and rehearsal preparedness 50%
PerformanceAssessment of skills and abilities in performance/project25%

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

    Project/Thesis Preparation and Development
  • Unit Code

    DAN5103
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Michael George WHAITES

Description

In this unit, students will continue with, and draw to conclusion, their investigations into the practices of dance, documenting their processes in an appropriate medium. The resulting performance/s, video and/or studies into associated areas are expected to be that equivalent to practitioners of professional standing. The unit can be undertaken in two modes of study: Individual research or Company research Individual Research: The student designs and implements a project, usually complementing their central research focus through performance, choreography, secondment, teaching dance or theoretical and/or applied research. The project is supervised by an appropriate staff member. Company Research: Students engage in work-place learning through activities conducted in a small company mode. Assessment of this unit is focused on the performance achievement of the student in the company's ongoing and major productions. Appropriate staff members and guest choreographers will supervise students.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from DAN5101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Individual research mode: Expand upon the thematic, structural and theoretical aspects in the performance of recognised choreographic work (performance research).
  2. Individual research mode: Appraise technical accomplishment and presentation in the performance of a new work (choreographic research).
  3. Individual research mode: Expand upon an aspect of a dance-related area of study so as to contribute to the knowledge/s of dance (pedagogical or other theoretical research).
  4. Company research mode: Demonstrate technical and expressive performance as is appropriate to the choreographer's vision.

Unit Content

  1. Company Research: Company management, promotion and production procedures.
  2. Individual Research: Discourse of chosen area of research.
  3. Strategies for the development of technique and creative contributions to the choreographic process.
  4. Documentation narratives and mediums.
  5. Roles and responsibilities on collaborative contexts.
  6. Evaluation strategies involving feedback from appropriate personnel.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered36 x 3.5 hour ensemblesNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Rehearsals, Practical teaching, Practical involvement, Performances, Problem-solving processes, Observation or performances and /or teaching, Reflection and analysis with supervisor.

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
AssignmentExternal examination of research in practice/project25%
PerformanceAssessment for development and rehearsal preparedness 50%
PerformanceAssessment of skills and abilities in performance/project25%

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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