School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Screen Leadership
  • Unit Code

    MSP6145
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Kylie BOLTIN

Description

Effective leadership skills are needed to thrive in the screen industry. This unit equips students with the knowledge and skills to navigate the complexities of production leadership. Through exploration of diverse leadership styles, including cross-cultural approaches guided by Indigenous ways of being, knowing, and doing, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the producer and production manager roles. Covering audience trends, interpersonal leadership skills, and business essentials such as finance, legal, ethical, and safety considerations, and logistical management, this unit prepares students for screen leadership roles in screen production and screen management.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Coordinate the logistics, locations and community engagement on screen production projects.
  2. Manage end-to-end screen production workflows safely and efficiently in real-time production environments.
  3. Reflect critically on a range of leadership skills and strategies needed to facilitate the management of screen productions in culturally responsive ways.
  4. Apply a range of leadership skills and strategies to effectively lead diverse teams in professional settings.

Unit Content

  1. Screen production and screen management roles and responsibilities, including culturally responsiveness skills.
  2. Leadership skills and strategies, including cross-cultural approaches to leadership.
  3. Leading diverse teams.
  4. Screen production and screen management roles and responsibilities.
  5. End-to-end screen production workflows from pre-production through to delivery and including budgets.
  6. Interpersonal leadership skills.
  7. Logistics, locations and community engagement for screen production projects.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

In addition to participating in timetabled classes, students will need to be available to participate in some intensive screen production creation process during the teaching period. The screen production schedule will be made available to students at the beginning of the teaching period.

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
ReportProduction workflow report40%
Reflective PracticePortfolio of evidence including critical reflections of leadership 60%

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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