Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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• Unit Title

  Arts Issues

• Unit Code

  MAP5115

• Year

  2017

• Enrolment Period

  2

• Version

  2

• Credit Points

  30

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

• Unit Coordinator

  Dr Jonathan Warren MARSHALL

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Description

This unit introduces a selection of historical art issues pertinent to performance, arts and culture, through the investigation of a series of interlinked case studies and writings, or other sources associated with these. The unit surveys some of the issues, debates and works which were, or are, 'hot topics' in the arts and which have influenced contemporary practice, theory and scholarship. Specific weekly content, topics and readings are reviewed annually.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Develop strong critical reading skills, including an ability to draw out key points and to talk to them or use them as the starting point for further discussion.
2. Appreciate cross-disciplinary practice and thinking as it applies to the arts, and especially the performing arts, in the current climate and the past.
3. Develop familiarity with some of the major debates in the arts following the 1900s in terms of major art movements, political/cultural debates, and how critical theory and reflexive practice has infiltrated the arts.
4. Identify and apply your own critical concepts or conceptual questions to fields of practice within the arts, and identify how such issues may or may not impact your own field.
5. Develop research and academic argumentative skills.

Unit Content

1. Arts and institutions.
2. Art and science.
3. Discourses of history.
4. Manifestos and models of writing as art-making, performance.
5. The Marxist critical legacy and contemporary art practice.
6. Weekly content, topics and readings are reviewed annually. In previous years topics have included:
7. Art-making in the wake of Colonialism.
8. Gender, sexuality and the arts.
9. Performance as research.
10. Interdisciplinarity versus specialisation.
11. Chaos, carnival and Dionysius.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Weekly lecture and seminar, plus monthly tutorials with staff and students.

Assessment

GS4 GRADING SCHEMA 4 Used for undifferentiated pass/fail 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.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

• of Great Britain., A. C. (1993). A creative future: the way forward for the arts, crafts and media in England. London: Arts Council of Great Britain.
• Fishel, D. (1993). The arts sponsorship handbook. United Kingdom: The Bath Press.
• Gill, L. A. (1990). The arts: Do we need them? United Kingdom: Franklin Watts.

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