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.

  • Unit Title

    Site-Specific or Community-Engaged Production
  • Unit Code

    PAM2405
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jeremy NEIDECK

Description

In this unit, students will extend and apply knowledge gained in Performance Beyond the Proscenium to create a new work of performance that takes place outside of a traditional theatre venue. Students explore alternative processes to performance creation under the guidance of staff or guest artists. In this unit, students will develop and demonstrate a unique set of performance making skills including placemaking, site or location-specific research, community engagement, logistics, risk management and audience facilitation.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

The unit will require students to participate in field trips, rehearsals and performances in non-traditional spaces on and off campus outside of standard teaching hours.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Investigate a location as the basis for creating a site-specific and/or community-engaged production.
  2. Communicate with stakeholders in the planning and creation of a site-specific and/or community-engaged production.
  3. Create performance material through collaboration, improvisation, experimentation or devising tasks in response to a site or location.
  4. Apply performance, production or design skills required in the context of presenting a site-specific and/or community-engaged performance.

Unit Content

  1. Advanced and applied skills in researching sites and locations including considering their histories, stories, architectures, current uses, and community and cultural significance.
  2. Opportunities and challenges of rehearsing and performing in public spaces.
  3. Managing relationships with stakeholder groups including the community, the public, funding bodies, venues and institutions.
  4. The nature of relationships between performer, audience/spectator and site or location.
  5. Navigating and facilitating audience/spectator participation and responses to site-specific and community-engaged productions.
  6. Planning, logistics and risk management for site-specific and community-engaged productions.

Learning Experience

WIL - Field Experience

Students experience an environment where they observe and/or participate in the application of theoretical knowledge and skills in a professional setting, under the supervision of an expert or professional in the field. Examples include study tours, observation, shadowing, fieldwork, industry tours.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will attend a series of classes and engage in learning activities via the ECU Learning Management System.

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
ExerciseCreate a digital field guide40%
PerformanceDevelopment and performance of a site-specific and/or community-engaged production60%

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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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.

  • Unit Title

    Site-Specific or Community-Engaged Production
  • Unit Code

    PAM2405
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jeremy NEIDECK

Description

In this unit, students will extend and apply knowledge gained in Performance Beyond the Proscenium to create a new work of performance that takes place outside of a traditional theatre venue. Students explore alternative processes to performance creation under the guidance of staff or guest artists. In this unit, students will develop and demonstrate a unique set of performance making skills including placemaking, site or location-specific research, community engagement, logistics, risk management and audience facilitation.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

The unit will require students to participate in field trips, rehearsals and performances in non-traditional spaces on and off campus outside of standard teaching hours.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Investigate a location as the basis for creating a site-specific and/or community-engaged production.
  2. Communicate with stakeholders in the planning and creation of a site-specific and/or community-engaged production.
  3. Create performance material through collaboration, improvisation, experimentation or devising tasks in response to a site or location.
  4. Apply performance, production or design skills required in the context of presenting a site-specific and/or community-engaged performance.

Unit Content

  1. Advanced and applied skills in researching sites and locations including considering their histories, stories, architectures, current uses, and community and cultural significance.
  2. Opportunities and challenges of rehearsing and performing in public spaces.
  3. Managing relationships with stakeholder groups including the community, the public, funding bodies, venues and institutions.
  4. The nature of relationships between performer, audience/spectator and site or location.
  5. Navigating and facilitating audience/spectator participation and responses to site-specific and community-engaged productions.
  6. Planning, logistics and risk management for site-specific and community-engaged productions.

Learning Experience

WIL - Field Experience

Students experience an environment where they observe and/or participate in the application of theoretical knowledge and skills in a professional setting, under the supervision of an expert or professional in the field. Examples include study tours, observation, shadowing, fieldwork, industry tours.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will attend a series of classes and engage in learning activities via the ECU Learning Management System.

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
ExerciseCreate a digital field guide40%
PerformanceDevelopment and performance of a site-specific and/or community-engaged production60%

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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