Course Coordinator:Karen Hands (khands1@usc.edu.au) School:School of Business and Creative Industries
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Blended learning | Most of your course is on campus but you may be able to do some components of this course online. |
Online |
Online | You can do this course without coming onto campus. |
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teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
This studio-style intensive course will introduce you to the foundation concepts and collaborative skills required to produce creative artefacts within the Creative Industries framework. Your interdisciplinary creative work will take a problem-based approach and will consider available resources, audiences and opportunities. Based on the principles of creative bricolage and radical creativity, this course will support you to be curious, be bold, and to employ innovation and resourcefulness to produce creative outcomes. This course is delivered via eight workshops (Weeks 1 - 8) and an end of semester showing of creative artefacts (Week 13).
Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
Blended learning | |||
Learning materials – Online learning material. | 1hr | Week 1 | 12 times |
Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Synchronous, scheduled workshops (on campus). | 3hrs | Week 1 | 8 times |
Seminar – One hour showing of creative artefacts produced as a result of Task 2 and Task 3 | 1hr | Week 13 | Once Only |
Online | |||
Learning materials – Asynchronous online delivery of learning material. | 1hr | Week 1 | 12 times |
Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Synchronous online workshops. | 3hrs | Week 1 | 8 times |
Seminar – One hour showing of creative artefacts produced as a result of Task 2 and Task 3 | 1hr | Week 13 | Once Only |
Creative Bricolage
Radical Creativity
Creative production
Collaboration
Interdisciplinarity
Industry informed practice
100 Level (Introductory)
12 units
Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Mapping Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | Professional Standard Mapping * Education for Sustainable Development Goals | |
1 | Apply foundation discipline-specific and interdisciplinary skills to produce creative work. | Knowledgeable |
8.2.5, 8.3.1, 8.3.3, 8.3.4 |
2 | Demonstrate collaboration with others to realise a creative production. | Empowered |
8.2.5, 8.3.1, 8.3.3, 8.3.4 |
3 | Engage critically with concepts and practices of bricolage and radical creativity in creative production. | Problem solving |
8.2.5, 8.3.1, 8.3.3, 8.3.4 |
4 | Communicate ideas and understandings of pragmatic approaches to collaboration and creative production. | Sustainability-focussed |
8.2.5, 8.3.1, 8.3.3, 8.3.4 |
CODE | COMPETENCY |
Education for Sustainable Development Goals | |
8.2.5 | The learner is able to develop a vision and plans for their own economic life based on an analysis of their competencies and contexts. |
8.3.1 | The learner is able to engage with new visions and models of a sustainable, inclusive economy and decent work. |
8.3.3 | The learner is able to develop and evaluate ideas for sustainability-driven innovation and entrepreneurship. |
8.3.4 | The learner is able to plan and implement entrepreneurial projects. |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
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Standard Grading (GRD)
High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
By Week 3 of this course you will have received in class feedback on your understanding and knowledge of course content.
Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | Weighting % | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
All | 1 | Oral and Written Piece | Individual | 20% | 2 - 3 mins. |
Week 3 | Online Submission |
All | 2 | Artefact - Creative, and Written Piece | Individual and Group | 40% | 1500 words, or equivalent, and including visual content as required. 25% of your mark will be attributed to group work. 15% of your mark will be attributed to your individual work. |
Week 8 | Online Submission |
All | 3 | Artefact - Creative, and Written Piece | Individual and Group | 40% | A 3 -5 minute artefact (or equivalent text) produced by your group, supported by a 500 word individual critical refection. 25% of this mark is allocated to group work 15% of this mark is allocated to your individual submission |
Week 13 | Online Submission |
All - Assessment Task 1:Personal pitch | |||||||||||||
Goal: | The purpose of this task is to communicate your areas of interest and expertise and to outline how your practice and tools can be utilised in the collaborative process of creative bricolage. |
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Product: | Oral and Written Piece | ||||||||||||
Format: | You will share a short video outlining your skills, interests and potential bricolage tools using the learning management system provided. This will be shown in the Week 2 Workshop. |
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Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving |
All - Assessment Task 2:Production plan | |||||||||||||
Goal: | The purpose of this task is to develop and communicate a collaborative plan taking a problem-based approach and considering available resources. This will inform the production of your creative artefact. |
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Product: | Artefact - Creative, and Written Piece | ||||||||||||
Format: | Using industry informed methods of communication, outline a plan stating the proposed creative artefact and identifying the logistics, roles, timeline, and resources needed to create your artefact. |
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Generic Skills: | Communication, Collaboration, Organisation |
All - Assessment Task 3:Creative Artefact and Reflection | ||||||||||||||||
Goal: | The purpose of this task is to deliver a creative product to a University facing standard of production. |
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Product: | Artefact - Creative, and Written Piece | |||||||||||||||
Format: | You will collaborate to produce the creative artefact using the plan from assessment 2. This will be presented via your preferred mode (for example, a recording, a creative writing work, a physical artefact, in person performance) during your final workshop in Week 13. You will utilise the creative bricolage techniques and principle of radical creativity outlined in this course by effectively collaborating and utilising the resources available to you. You will critically reflect on your application of creative bricolage techniques and radical creativity in the production of the work. |
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Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving, Applying technologies |
A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.
This course is collaborative and is not designed for asynchronous study. Students are expected to make themselves available for autonomous group work outside of scheduled workshops. Online students will participate via Zoom workshops with a computer or device with a working camera and microphone.
Academic integrity is the ethical standard of university participation. It ensures that students graduate as a result of proving they are competent in their discipline. This is integral in maintaining the value of academic qualifications. Each industry has expectations and standards of the skills and knowledge within that discipline and these are reflected in assessment.
Academic integrity means that you do not engage in any activity that is considered to be academic fraud; including plagiarism, collusion or outsourcing any part of any assessment item to any other person. You are expected to be honest and ethical by completing all work yourself and indicating in your work which ideas and information were developed by you and which were taken from others. You cannot provide your assessment work to others. You are also expected to provide evidence of wide and critical reading, usually by using appropriate academic references.
In order to minimise incidents of academic fraud, this course may require that some of its assessment tasks, when submitted to Canvas, are electronically checked through Turnitin. This software allows for text comparisons to be made between your submitted assessment item and all other work to which Turnitin has access.
Eligibility for Supplementary Assessment
Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying:
(a) The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4%; and
(b) The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale
Late submissions may be penalised up to and including the following maximum percentage of the assessment task’s identified value, with weekdays and weekends included in the calculation of days late:
(a) One day: deduct 5%;
(b) Two days: deduct 10%;
(c) Three days: deduct 20%;
(d) Four days: deduct 40%;
(e) Five days: deduct 60%;
(f) Six days: deduct 80%;
(g) Seven days: A result of zero is awarded for the assessment task.The following penalties will apply for a late submission for an online examination:
Less than 15 minutes: No penalty
From 15 minutes to 30 minutes: 20% penalty
More than 30 minutes: 100% penalty
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