School: Arts and Humanities

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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Creativity
  • Unit Code

    SAH1150
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Andrew Michael EWING

Description

This unit examines the importance and use of creativity in professional practice. The unit encourages students to critically reflect on the roles of creativity in their discipline. Upon completion, students will develop creative processes through a reflective, iterative process of idea generation, development, evaluation and reconfiguration.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded {CCA1103}

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply a range of tools and techniques to produce creative, discipline-related artefacts.
  2. Think critically to analyse, interpret and apply relevant information from multiple sources to creative practice.
  3. Use autonomy, reflection and judgement when developing creative artefacts.

Unit Content

  1. Creative methods.
  2. Tools, techniques and environments to enhance creativity.
  3. Individual and group practices for engendering creativity.
  4. The human body, the playful mind and creativity.
  5. Convergent/divergent thinking, metaphor and bisociation.
  6. Natural forms and creativity.
  7. Working with creative ideas to bring them to fruition.
  8. The historical and theoretical development of creativity.
  9. Models of creative practice.
  10. Action research.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 2 hour lecture13 x 2 hour lecture
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 1 hour tutorial13 x 1 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures introduce the theory, history and methods commonly associated with creativity. Class activities involves students using a range of tools and techniques for generating and working with creative ideas to establish those methods that work well in particular contexts. Through class discussions and ePortfolios, students will explore and reflect on what constitutes a creative person, creative product, processes and strategies for creativity.

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
Annotated Bibliography A negotiated plan/contract 10%
ExegesisExegesis40%
PortfolioCreative Project Portfolio50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Annotated Bibliography A negotiated plan/contract 10%
ExegesisExegesis40%
PortfolioCreative Project Portfolio50%

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.

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. 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, 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: Arts and Humanities

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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Creativity
  • Unit Code

    SAH1150
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Andrew Michael EWING

Description

This unit examines the importance and use of creativity in professional practice. The unit encourages students to critically reflect on the roles of creativity in their discipline. Upon completion, students will develop creative processes through a reflective, iterative process of idea generation, development, evaluation and reconfiguration.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded {CCA1103}

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply a range of tools and techniques to produce creative, discipline-related artefacts.
  2. Think critically to analyse, interpret and apply relevant information from multiple sources to creative practice.
  3. Use autonomy, reflection and judgement when developing creative artefacts.

Unit Content

  1. Creative methods.
  2. Tools, techniques and environments to enhance creativity.
  3. Individual and group practices for engendering creativity.
  4. The human body, the playful mind and creativity.
  5. Convergent/divergent thinking, metaphor and bisociation.
  6. Natural forms and creativity.
  7. Working with creative ideas to bring them to fruition.
  8. The historical and theoretical development of creativity.
  9. Models of creative practice.
  10. Action research.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 2 hour lecture13 x 2 hour lecture
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 1 hour tutorial13 x 1 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures introduce the theory, history and methods commonly associated with creativity. Class activities involves students using a range of tools and techniques for generating and working with creative ideas to establish those methods that work well in particular contexts. Through class discussions and ePortfolios, students will explore and reflect on what constitutes a creative person, creative product, processes and strategies for creativity.

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
Annotated Bibliography A negotiated plan/contract 10%
ExegesisExegesis40%
PortfolioCreative Project Portfolio50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Annotated Bibliography A negotiated plan/contract 10%
ExegesisExegesis40%
PortfolioCreative Project Portfolio50%

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.

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. 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, 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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