ACA102 - Creativity: Thinking Through Doing
Unit details
| Year: | 2024 unit information |
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| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Katie Lee |
| Cohort rule: | Nil |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
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| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 3-hour seminar per week |
Content
The unit aims to guide students in understanding and expressing their own unique perspectives on creativity. It begins by emphasising a key concept that underlies all Creative Arts degrees: the intellectualisation, articulation, and representation of embodied knowledge. This concept highlights the importance of developing the ability to analyse, communicate, and present one's creative ideas and experiences. Throughout the unit, students engage with theoretical concepts and practical applications through various activities such as reading, practical research, and written assignments. These activities foster critical reflection, which is considered a fundamental skill in both academic study and professional work within the creative arts disciplines. By encouraging students to think deeply and critically about their creative processes, they develop a stronger understanding of their own artistic practice. Learning is undertaken through a series of collaborative practice-based creative projects. Students will work individually and/or in groups to solve creative problems, explore contemporary practice processes in cross-disciplinary environments, and build their collegial networks with others. The unit investigates the use of self-reflexive and critical writing and practices of documentation and feedback to strengthen creative practice.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
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| ULO1 | Apply technical skills and creative strategies of a chosen discipline to generate solutions to creative arts problems and original creative outcomes | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO2 | Document, articulate and evaluate the development of a creative investigation and decision-making process through appropriate audio/visual and written forms | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication |
| ULO3 | Identify and manage personal goals and individual contribution to the planning, negotiation and realisation of individual and group creative outcomes | GLO6: Self-management |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1: Independent Creative Practice and Critical Refection | 800 words or equivalent | 20% | Week 4 |
| Assessment 2: (Individual or Group) Creative Practice | 1600 words or equivalent | 40% | Week 10 |
| Assessment 3: Portfolio | 1600 words or equivalent | 40% | Week 12 |
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.
Learning Resource
There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.
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