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BCA3001 BCA Project B

Semester 2, 2020 On-campus Toowoomba
Short Description: BCA Project B
Units : 1
Faculty or Section : Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts
School or Department : School of Creative Arts
Student contribution band : Band 1
ASCED code : 109999 - Creative Arts not elsewhere cl
Grading basis : Graded

Staffing

Examiner:

Other requisites

Students are strongly encouraged to continue working on material developed from BCA3000 BCA Project A offered in semester 1.

Students will require access to e-mail and have internet access to UConnect for this course.

This course should be completed during the student's last year in the program.

Rationale

This course seeks to explore at an advanced level the intersection between theory and practice in the creative arts. This course may be used to further develop creative ideas and work from BCA3000 Project A.

Synopsis

This course seeks to explore at an advanced level further intersections between theory and practice in the creative arts. Commencing from the primary perspective of the arts practitioner, the student will identify, research and articulate how practice and theory informs or might inform hybrid and/or discipline specific projects. This course seeks to increase the students' ability to contribute to scholarly output in their field by motivating and encouraging further practice, research and lifelong learning beyond their degree program.

Objectives

On completion of this course students will be able to demonstrate:

  1. academic and professional literacy through applying, synthesising and evaluating the process involved in researching, collaboration and mentoring processes involved in creating creative arts projects;
  2. advanced management, planning and organisational skills to develop all production and rehearsal aspects of a production/project for public presentation (or other assigned project/activity);
  3. a high level of critical and cultural literacies in the comparison and interpretation of the relationship between theory and practice in diverse contemporary creative arts practice;
  4. creativity, initiative and enterprise in the development of connections with industry professionals via secondments and/or project application.

Topics

Description Weighting(%)
1. Topics/projects will be determined in consultation with staff from the discipline areas of the BCA program. Projects will aim for a public outcome at the end of the semester that may pertain to a Showcase of the BCA final year students. 100.00

Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed

ALL textbooks and materials available to be purchased can be sourced from (unless otherwise stated). (https://omnia.usq.edu.au/textbooks/?year=2020&sem=02&subject1=BCA3001)

Please for alternative purchase options from USQ Bookshop. (https://omnia.usq.edu.au/info/contact/)

There are no texts or materials required for this course.

Reference materials

Reference materials are materials that, if accessed by students, may improve their knowledge and understanding of the material in the course and enrich their learning experience.
These will be advised on the basis of the topics determined within specific discipline or hybrid disciplines.

Student workload expectations

Activity Hours
Tutorials 28.00
Workshops or Rehearsals 137.00

Assessment details

Description Marks out of Wtg (%) Due Date Notes
PROJECT PLAN 100 10 03 Aug 2020
WORK-IN-PROGRESS 100 30 31 Aug 2020
EXHIBITION/PROJECT OUTCOME 100 60 23 Oct 2020

Important assessment information

  1. Attendance requirements:
    Students must attend and complete the requirements of the Workplace Health and Safety training program for this course where required.

    External and Online: There are no attendance requirements for this course. However, it is the students' responsibility to study all material provided to them or required to be accessed by them to maximise their chance of meeting the objectives of the course and to be informed of course-related activities and administration.

    On-campus: It is the students鈥� responsibility to attend and participate appropriately in all activities (such as lectures, tutorials, laboratories and practical work) scheduled for them, and to study all material provided to them or required to be accessed by them to maximise their chance of meeting the objectives of the course and to be informed of course-related activities and administration.

  2. Requirements for students to complete each assessment item satisfactorily:
    To successfully complete an individual assessment item, a student must achieve at least 50% of the marks or a grade of at least C-. This statement must be read in conjunction with Statement 4 below.

  3. Penalties for late submission of required work:
    Students should refer to the Assessment Procedure (point 4.2.4)

  4. Requirements for student to be awarded a passing grade in the course:
    To satisfactorily complete an individual assessment item a student must achieve at least 50% of the marks.

  5. Method used to combine assessment results to attain final grade:
    The final grades for students will be assigned on the basis of the aggregate of the weighted marks obtained for each of the summative assessment items in the course.

  6. Examination information:
    There is no examination for this course.

  7. Examination period when Deferred/Supplementary examinations will be held:
    There is no examination in this course, there will be no deferred or supplementary examinations.

  8. 精东传媒app Student Policies:
    Students should read the USQ policies: Definitions, Assessment and Student Academic Misconduct to avoid actions which might contravene 精东传媒app policies and practices. These policies can be found at .

Other requirements

  1. Students can expect that questions in assessment items in this course may draw upon knowledge and skills that they can reasonably be expected to have acquired before enrolling in the course. This includes knowledge contained in pre-requisite courses and appropriate communication, information literacy, analytical, critical thinking, problem solving or numeracy skills. Students who do not possess such knowledge and skills should not expect to achieve the same grades as those students who do possess them.

  2. Students will work in conjunction with a supervisor who comes from the staff at the School of Creative Arts. Students are encouraged to develop hybrid projects across arts disciplines which may mean they work through their project with more than one supervisor.

  3. External students are expected to make connection with staff from their discipline area to discuss and develop their project in accordance with the assessment for this course.

Date printed 6 November 2020