School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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  • Unit Title

    Performance Project 1: Creative Development
  • Unit Code

    PSM3005
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jeremy NEIDECK

Description

This unit prepares students to undertake a capstone performance making experience. Students will either work alone or in small groups under the supervision of a staff member to create an original work from research and conception through to pitch and creative development.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

The unit will require students to undertake a significant amount of independent creative practice under the supervision of a staff member. This may involve the coordination of small groups of peers, the securing of rehearsal space, and working on and off campus outside of standard teaching hours.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Devise pitch ideas for a new performance work in a style and format appropriate to industry stakeholders such as funders, programmers and/or collaborators.
  2. Design, plan and conduct the early stages of an effective creative process to generate original performance material using feedback from peers and mentors.
  3. Explain complex performance making concepts and ideas clearly, succinctly and convincingly.

Unit Content

  1. Developing and communicating project concepts and ideas.
  2. Roles, responsibilities and models for collaboration in performance making.
  3. The stages of the creative process from conception through to the development of a performance pitch.
  4. Collaboration and communication skills that maximise creativity for individuals and teams.
  5. Learn how to receive constructive feedback from peers and mentors to develop, deepen or elaborate on performance ideas.

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
PresentationPitch a performance concept40%
ProjectUndertake a creative development and work in progress showing of performance material60%

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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