Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Guy Morrow
Contact via guy.morrow@mq.edu.au
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
12cp
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit involves a critical and analytical examination of artistic creativity within an industrial context. Through studying this unit, students will gain insights into how to nurture and facilitate artistic creativity. The ground has shifted under arts organisations due to new technologies. What are the opportunities for innovation, growth and renewal? Will theatre and live music survive as economically viable industries because they are not as subject to piracy? The new arts industries that are emerging are intricately tied to a new media ecosystem. This unit will explore the interrelationship between these and will present ideas concerning the future of the Australian arts and entertainment industries.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Funding Application | 20% | Thursday March 28 |
Group Presentation | 30% | Week allocated |
Essay 2 | 40% | Tuesday June 11 |
Seminar Participation | 10% | Throughout Semester |
Due: Thursday March 28
Weighting: 20%
Funding Application for Artistic Project
Your task for this assignment is to draft a proposal to the Australia Council for the Arts for funding. You will need to envisage an arts activity of your choosing and then apply for funds under one of the grant categories listed on the Australia Council website and in the council’s grants handbook. http://www.ozco.gov.au
You will be given further instructions in your tutorials concerning this project.
Due: Week allocated
Weighting: 30%
Students will be put into groups in the first week’s class. Groups will also be allocated a week in which to present during the first class. Students will be required to demonstrate that they are capable of creative thinking and of working in a group to create knowledge concerning the future of the arts industries. Each presentation group will be allocated one of the weekly readings/topics to present. Presentation groups will be required to articulate the structure of knowledge within their allocated reading and how this relates to the broader discipline of arts management. Presentation groups will need to demonstrate that they are capable of reasoning, questioning and analysing, and will integrate and synthesise learning and knowledge from a range of sources and environments, such as the fields of creativity research, leadership studies, copyright law and marketing. They will also need to be able to critique constraints, assumptions and limitations within these fields. Through this task, students will further develop their capability to read, listen, question, gather and evaluate information resources in a variety of formats, assess, write clearly, speak effectively, and work in a group to use visual communication and communication technologies as appropriate.
Due: Tuesday June 11
Weighting: 40%
2500 words. For your final essay, you will be required to select one question from a list that will be distributed during the second half of the semester. This list will feature questions that draw from ideas that emerge across the semester so that you can explore these further (and so that you will have played a part in developing the essay question options).
Due: Throughout Semester
Weighting: 10%
Students will be allocated a grade based on their contribution to tutorials.
READINGS:
The readings for this unit are electronically available via e-reserve and/or the unit iLearn site. A complete reading list is available for download as a pdf from the unit iLearn site.
ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION
Electronic Submissions
Assignments for this unit are to be submitted online via the Turn It In/Grademark software that can be accessed through the MMCS220 iLearn unit.
To submit an assignment:
1. Go to the MMCS220 iLearn site.
2. Click on the relevant Turn It In assignment name.
3. Click on the Submit Paper tab.
4. Select Student Name.
5. Enter a Submission Title.
6. Select Submission Part if there are multiple parts available.
7. Click Browse and select the file you would like to submit.
8. Click Add Submission.
Weekly schedule: |
Week 1 |
Arts and Entertainment Industries and Cultural Policy
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Week 2 |
What is Artistic Creativity?
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Week 3 |
Dance and Social Creativity: Re-qualifying the Creative Economy (Guest Lecture by Dr Julie-Anne Long).
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Week 4 |
What Can Managers Do for Creativity? Brokering Creativity in the Creative Industries
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Week 5 |
The Concentric Circles Model of the Cultural Industries
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Week 6 |
The Future of Museums in the Digital Age
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Week 7 |
Pitchfork: Birth of an Indie Music Mega-Brand
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Week 8 |
The Digital Revolution and Convergence in the Videogame and Animation Industries
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Week 9 |
Australian Philanthropy and the Arts: How Does It Compare?
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Week 10 |
Do You Really Expect to Get Paid? An Economic Study of Professional Artists in Australia
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Week 11 |
The Effectiveness of Creativity Training
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Week 12 |
Australian Indigenous Performing Arts and Policy
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Week 13 |
Creative Industries after the First Decade of Debate |
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