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.

  • Unit Title

    Research Seminar
  • Unit Code

    DAN5203
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Renee Esther NEWMAN

Description

Students attend weekly class and rehearsal that will provide an opportunity for the discussion of research issues in the performing arts and/or the workplace or other matters affecting students' projects. The unit can be undertaken in two modes of study: Individual research or Company research. Individual: 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: Students engage in workplace 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 appropriate staff members and guest choreographers.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Individual research mode: Appraise technical and creative accomplishment and presentation in the performance of a recognised choreographic work (performance research).
  2. Individual research mode: Critically analyse the thematic, structural and theoretical aspects of a major creative work (choreographic research).
  3. Individual research move: 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: Apply and evaluate a high standard of personal initiative to the organisation and management of a dance company.
  5. Company research mode: Confidently analyse and articulate acquired knowledge of individual and company practice including health and wellbeing.
  6. Analyse and articulate technical and creative accomplishment in the choreographic work.

Unit Content

  1. Company: Exploration of methodologies related to work place company environment.
  2. Company: Investigation of movement and the non-verbal production of meaning in a company setting.
  3. Company: Fundraising, marketing and producing dance works in a work place environment.
  4. Individual: Applied knowledge of dance as a discipline across diverse dance environments.
  5. Individual: Exploration of methodologies related to individual project.
  6. Individual: Investigation of movement and the non-verbal production of meaning as it relates to individual project.
  7. Assessment procedures for non-verbal products.

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
PracticumRehearsal responsiveness35%
PerformancePerformance35%
ExerciseAssociated management, production and promotion tasks30%

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.

  • Unit Title

    Research Seminar
  • Unit Code

    DAN5203
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Renee Esther NEWMAN

Description

Students attend weekly class and rehearsal that will provide an opportunity for the discussion of research issues in the performing arts and/or the workplace or other matters affecting students' projects. The unit can be undertaken in two modes of study: Individual research or Company research. Individual: 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: Students engage in workplace 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 appropriate staff members and guest choreographers.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Individual research mode: Appraise technical and creative accomplishment and presentation in the performance of a recognised choreographic work (performance research).
  2. Individual research mode: Critically analyse the thematic, structural and theoretical aspects of a major creative work (choreographic research).
  3. Individual research move: 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: Apply and evaluate a high standard of personal initiative to the organisation and management of a dance company.
  5. Company research mode: Confidently analyse and articulate acquired knowledge of individual and company practice including health and wellbeing.
  6. Analyse and articulate technical and creative accomplishment in the choreographic work.

Unit Content

  1. Company: Exploration of methodologies related to work place company environment.
  2. Company: Investigation of movement and the non-verbal production of meaning in a company setting.
  3. Company: Fundraising, marketing and producing dance works in a work place environment.
  4. Individual: Applied knowledge of dance as a discipline across diverse dance environments.
  5. Individual: Exploration of methodologies related to individual project.
  6. Individual: Investigation of movement and the non-verbal production of meaning as it relates to individual project.
  7. Assessment procedures for non-verbal products.

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
PracticumRehearsal responsiveness35%
PerformancePerformance35%
ExerciseAssociated management, production and promotion tasks30%

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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