School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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  • Unit Title

    Performing Arts Research Preparation
  • Unit Code

    MAP5116
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Jonathan W. MARSHALL

Description

This unit will introduce students to research concepts, protocols and methods of performing arts investigations through practice and critical reflection. The students will be guided through investigations in alternative forms of knowledge fundamental to the various disciplines of the performing arts in preparation to developing their official research proposal.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss the major theoretical frameworks and methodologies associated with creative arts research.
  2. Evaluate and select appropriate research methodologies for analysing research data and synthesising findings to a research problem.
  3. Present a research proposal, demonstrating informed judgement in the planning of a research project.
  4. Orally present and/or defend a research topic.
  5. Recognise any ethical implications that may apply to performing arts research.

Unit Content

  1. Reflective practice.
  2. Seminar presentations of work/ideas.
  3. Writing a research proposal.
  4. Oral presentation skills.
  5. Confirmation of Candidature practice run.
  6. Ethical implications of research.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered15 x 2 hour practical classNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered14 x 2 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

MAP5116 Performing Arts Research Preparation is a weekly two-hour interactive discussion and workshop series to sit alongside MAP5115 Art Issues to assist students in the research journey.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective PracticeReflective Practice Exercise (PAR journal & analysis)20%
PresentationSeminar presentation and Confirmation of Candidature rehearsal 30%
AssignmentResearch Proposal (draft)50%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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