Postgraduate - UnitAPG5363 - Cultural arts

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Communications and Media Studies
Offered	Not offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)	Dr Elizabeth Paton

Synopsis

This unit enables students to read widely in a relevant topic within a cultural arts field, under the guidance of a supervisor. It may be an area not offered in any other fourth or fifth-year level unit, or involve building more in-depth knowledge in an area with which the student already has some familiarity. Details for the reading unit will be defined and approved individually for each student and will include objectives, assessment and an initial reading list. Students enrolling in this unit must have the approval of the unit coordinator.

Outcomes

On the successful completion of this unit students will have:

gained detailed knowledge and in-depth understanding of an area of interest to the student, which is not formally taught;
developed an ability to analyse and construct arguments from a range of academic sources;
developed skills at critiquing and evaluating others ideas, opinions and arguments;
demonstrated a willingness to present ideas for scrutiny to a supervisor and accept criticism of those ideas;
and learned self-reliance and time management skills in order to gain greater independence as a learner.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Elizabeth Paton

Prohibitions

APG4363