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

    Arts Issues
  • Unit Code

    MAP5115
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jonathan Warren MARSHALL

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

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

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

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.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Presentation ^Research presentation30%
PortfolioWritten responses60%
ParticipationSeminar participation10%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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

    Arts Issues
  • Unit Code

    MAP5115
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jonathan Warren MARSHALL

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

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

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

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.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Presentation ^Research presentation30%
PortfolioWritten responses60%
ParticipationSeminar participation10%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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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