School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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  • Unit Title

    Music Theatre Industry Readiness
  • Unit Code

    MTH3401
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Craig DALTON

Description

This unit introduces students to the skills and knowledge required to navigate the arts industry in Australia and develop a sustainable career as an arts practitioner. Students are exposed to the regulatory and administrative frameworks of the industry and develop the skills and knowledge required to navigate these systems. Students create and refine a career plan and build a portfolio of supporting documentation and media. Students also collaborate with stakeholders and other artists and administrators to research, develop and plan an arts project.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply knowledge of the structure and processes of the Australian arts sector to develop a realistic career plan.
  2. Plan and prepare professional documentation relevant to the performing artist.
  3. Engage with stakeholders and conduct research to identify opportunities for the development of new work.
  4. Collaborate with artists, administrators and stakeholders to plan an arts project.
  5. Collaborate with community partners, including Indigenous organisations, to plan an arts project.

Unit Content

  1. Career planning.
  2. Industry practices and documentation.
  3. Stakeholder engagement.
  4. Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.
  5. Project management skills, including supervising and collaborating with others.
  6. Networking skills.
  7. Self-branding and social publishing/sharing.

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 Offered8 x 2 hour seminarNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered14 x .5 hour studioNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Digital literacy.

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
PortfolioProfessional portfolio and career plan30%
ExerciseProject plan40%
AssignmentArts project funding application30%

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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