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

    Performance and the Institution
  • Unit Code

    SAP2000
  • 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

This unit introduces students to the potential for social, cultural and political institutions to function as both the site and the material of performance. Students will be encouraged to consider the future of performance as an act capable of direct civic engagement through devising material with novice performers who are connected to carceral, justice, education, medical or other systems. Students will work together to design performance actions that address issues such as racial and gender violence, identity-based violence, the school-to-prison pipeline, medicalisation and institutionalisation. Strategies of support and care and pedagogies of hope will be integrated into projects of performance making as social practice that advocate for more just and equitable communities.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will work under the supervision of staff, an industry mentor, or partner organisation to conduct teaching, learning and/or production activities in the community. This may involve working on and off campus outside of standard teaching hours.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explore the factors and influences underpinning community consultation in the context of performance making as social practice.
  2. Discuss the principles of co-designing projects with community members.
  3. Organise a performance action or performance-making process with novice performers in the community.

Unit Content

  1. The nature of social, cultural and political institutions.
  2. The history of social, cultural and political institutions as sites of performance.
  3. Frameworks of community consultation and co-design in performance making as social practice.
  4. Significant practitioners using social, cultural and political institutions as performance material.
  5. Issues of racial and gender violence, identity-based violence, the school-to-prison pipeline, medicalisation and institutionalisation affecting communities.
  6. Strategies of care and pedagogies of hope.

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
ExerciseParticipate in a community consultation20%
ProjectCo-design a resource that can be used to communicate an important topic to a specific community30%
Creative WorkFacilitate a performance action or performance-making process with novice performers in the community50%

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

    Performance and the Institution
  • Unit Code

    SAP2000
  • 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

This unit introduces students to the potential for social, cultural and political institutions to function as both the site and the material of performance. Students will be encouraged to consider the future of performance as an act capable of direct civic engagement through devising material with novice performers who are connected to carceral, justice, education, medical or other systems. Students will work together to design performance actions that address issues such as racial and gender violence, identity-based violence, the school-to-prison pipeline, medicalisation and institutionalisation. Strategies of support and care and pedagogies of hope will be integrated into projects of performance making as social practice that advocate for more just and equitable communities.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will work under the supervision of staff, an industry mentor, or partner organisation to conduct teaching, learning and/or production activities in the community. This may involve working on and off campus outside of standard teaching hours.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explore the factors and influences underpinning community consultation in the context of performance making as social practice.
  2. Discuss the principles of co-designing projects with community members.
  3. Organise a performance action or performance-making process with novice performers in the community.

Unit Content

  1. The nature of social, cultural and political institutions.
  2. The history of social, cultural and political institutions as sites of performance.
  3. Frameworks of community consultation and co-design in performance making as social practice.
  4. Significant practitioners using social, cultural and political institutions as performance material.
  5. Issues of racial and gender violence, identity-based violence, the school-to-prison pipeline, medicalisation and institutionalisation affecting communities.
  6. Strategies of care and pedagogies of hope.

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
ExerciseParticipate in a community consultation20%
ProjectCo-design a resource that can be used to communicate an important topic to a specific community30%
Creative WorkFacilitate a performance action or performance-making process with novice performers in the community50%

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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