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

    Special Topics 1
  • Unit Code

    DAN5104
  • 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

The unit can be undertaken in two modes of study: a discrete component of an individualised research project or a company workplace performance stream. 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. Experience at a professional level of skill and responsibility in the processes of company management, promotion and production are supervised by an appropriate staff member and guest choreographers.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Individual research mode: Examine the thematic, structural and theoretical aspects of a major creative work (performance research).
  2. Individual research mode: Explore technical and creative accomplishment in a body of work by chosen choreographer/s (choreographic research).
  3. Individual research mode: Literature and/or practice review of a dance-related specialised area of investigation (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. Practice and related learning theories.
  2. Teaching strategies for school and community contexts.
  3. Individual Research:
  4. Documentation procedures.
  5. Creative projects involving the community in dance.
  6. Workplace protocols as applicable to performance, choreography, teaching and/or academic research.
  7. Company Research: Company operations servicing the community.

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

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 preparedness50%
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

    Special Topics 1
  • Unit Code

    DAN5104
  • 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

The unit can be undertaken in two modes of study: a discrete component of an individualised research project or a company workplace performance stream. 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. Experience at a professional level of skill and responsibility in the processes of company management, promotion and production are supervised by an appropriate staff member and guest choreographers.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Individual research mode: Examine the thematic, structural and theoretical aspects of a major creative work (performance research).
  2. Individual research mode: Explore technical and creative accomplishment in a body of work by chosen choreographer/s (choreographic research).
  3. Individual research mode: Literature and/or practice review of a dance-related specialised area of investigation (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. Practice and related learning theories.
  2. Teaching strategies for school and community contexts.
  3. Individual Research:
  4. Documentation procedures.
  5. Creative projects involving the community in dance.
  6. Workplace protocols as applicable to performance, choreography, teaching and/or academic research.
  7. Company Research: Company operations servicing the community.

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

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 preparedness50%
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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