Course Coordinator:Shannon Carroll (scarroll1@usc.edu.au) School:School of Business and Creative Industries
UniSC Sunshine Coast |
Blended learning | Most of your course is on campus but you may be able to do some components of this course online. |
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In this course, you will advance your performance knowledge and skills towards an industry-facing performance showcase. You will be guided by industry practitioners as you engage in advanced performance tasks including performance practice, industry-guided integration of technology, and advanced conceptualisation skills. These tasks will culminate in an industry-facing showcase performance event in a public music performance space.
| Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
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| Learning materials – Interactive online learning activities. | 1hr | Week 1 | 12 times |
| Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Scheduled face to face workshops. | 2hrs | Week 1 | 12 times |
Music performance
Showcase
Technical documentation
Advanced performance theory
Aural skills
Critical listening
Stage presence / stage craft
Technology integration
Audience engagement
industry-facing
300 Level (Graduate)
12 units
| Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | |
| 1 | Develop and justify a showcase pitch and deliver your desired industry outcome in a professional context. | Empowered |
| 2 | Curate and develop creative work in line with your performance intentions and is informed by contextual research. | Creative and critical thinker |
| 3 | Identify and apply technical practice to enrich your performance outcomes. | Engaged |
| 4 | Apply fundamentals of stage craft to your performance. | Empowered |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
MUS200
Not applicable
Not applicable
Recommended experience in public performance on instrument or voice.
Not applicable
Standard Grading (GRD)
| High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
An opportunity exists in every workshop to produce and perform creative pieces individually and/or in small peer groups. However, in Week 4 students will received feedback from tutors.
| 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 | Creative Performance | Individual or Group | 20% | 10 minutes |
Week 5 | In Class |
| All | 2 | Creative Performance | Individual or Group | 35% | 5 minutes technical run through plus technical documentation. |
Week 11 | In Class |
| All | 3 | Creative Performance | Individual | 45% | 15 -20 minutes plus technical documentation. |
Exam Period | To be Negotiated |
| All - Assessment Task 1:Critical Industry Pitch | ||||||||||||||||
| Goal: | This assessment will deliver a pitch to the cohort proposing what you intend on delivering in your showcase outcome |
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| Product: | Creative Performance | |||||||||||||||
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| Format: | In this task you will respond to your own commercial objectives and the industrial showcase opportunity to ensure you gain the maximum desires outcome from your creative showcase. |
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| Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving |
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| All - Assessment Task 2:Stagecraft and Technology | ||||||||||||||||
| Goal: | This assessment will establish the required performance skills to communicate a work on stage while incorporating industry level technical considerations. |
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| Product: | Creative Performance | |||||||||||||||
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| Format: | In this task you will develop and perform a musical work that incorporates technical tools and systems to aid in your performance. This performance will be a technical run of one element of your showcase performance (assessment 3). Your choices for the performance should take into account the technical parameters and limitations of the proposed venue. You will also provide key technical documentation to communicate your intentions to industry professionals in order to facilitate the successful operation of your work. This will include a stage plot, technical specifications, and run sheet. |
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| Generic Skills: | Organisation, Applying technologies, Information literacy |
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| All - Assessment Task 3:Showcase Performance | ||||||||||||||||
| Goal: | This assessment is a 15-20 minute industry showcase performance of your own design based on advanced concepts and practices of performance, and integrating technology in the performance space. |
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| Product: | Creative Performance | |||||||||||||||
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| Format: | In this task you will develop, produce, and perform an industry-level showcase of your creative work to be staged in a public-facing music venue. In this performance you will demonstrate your understanding of performance and stagecraft techniques, and how to incorporate technical systems to aid in your desired outcome. This task builds on and expands the work from assessment 2 into a set. You will also provide full technical documentation to communicate your intentions to industry professionals in order to facilitate the successful operation of your show. |
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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.
You are expected to make yourself available for autonomous group peer workgroup sessions in addition to your timetabled workshops. You may be required to attended seminars or additional timetabled and non-timetabled sessions throughout trimester. You must therefore consider your availability on evenings and weekends as well as normal working hours. While some coursework may be deliverable online, in the case of performed works and physical artefacts you may be required to attend in-person development sessions.
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
Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying: The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4% The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale You have not failed an assessment task in the course due to academic misconduct.
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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