ACA210 - Creative Studio 2A

Unit details

Note: You are seeing the 2021 view of this unit information. These details may no longer be current.
Year:

2021 unit information

Important Update:

Unit delivery will continue to be provided in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. This may include a mix of on-campus and online activities. To find out how you are impacted, please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Unit sites open one week prior to the start of each Trimester/Semester.

Thank you for your flexibility and commitment to studying with Deakin in 2021.

Last updated: 4 June 2021

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne)*, Waterfront (Geelong)

Credit point(s):2
EFTSL value:0.250
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Patrick Pound
Cohort rule:

Students must be enrolled in course A352, A356, A357 or A359

For students enrolled prior to 2021 course code D303, A300 or A301

Prerequisite:

Students must complete the following units for their course; 

A352 cohort: ACA100, ACA101, ACI101, ACI102

A356 cohort: ACA100, ACA101, ACC103, ACD104

A357 cohort: ACA100, ACA101, ACP109, ACP103

A359 cohort: ACA100, ACA101, ACV115, ACV101

A300, D303 cohort (major/minor sequence in Photography or Visual Arts); Must complete two units from ACI101 & ACI102 or ACV115 & ACV101

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

Nil

Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 300 hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

Scheduled learning activities - campus:

2 x 2-hour practical per week and 1 x 1-hour Class Per week

Note:

*Students in courses A356 & A357 must complete this unit at the Burwood campus

Content

This studio-based unit focuses on developing compositional, contextual and critical thinking that is vital for the realisation of arts practice (individual or collaborative). Through in-progress showings and critiques of work developed within particular creative, conceptual and resource restraints the unit will inform, support and challenge the ongoing development of professional arts practice.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1 Examine and interpret a range of aesthetic frames, methods and processes for composing creative work

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO2

Apply expanded vocabularies and specialised disciplinary skills and knowledge to generate, select, shape, analyse and compose creative work

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO3

Select and apply appropriate and effective source materials to support research, generation, expression and analysis of creative ideas using technological platforms.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO3: Digital literacy

These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1 - Research Task: Annotated Bibliography 1600 words equivalent 20% Information not yet available
Assessment 2 (Individual or Group) - Exhibition/Performance 4000 words equivalent 50% Information not yet available
Assessment 3 - Essay 2400 words equivalent 30% Information not yet available

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Unit Fee Information

Click on the fee link below which describes you: