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Courses Handbook 2015

This handbook contains information on courses and components (majors, minors, streams and units) at Curtin in 2015.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2014.

AUVS5001 (v.1) Interdisciplinary Practice

Area: School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Workshop: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Seminar: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 313338 (v.2) Interdisciplinary Arts 501 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 1532 (v.9) Screen Practice 111 or any previous version
OR
SPRO1000 (v.1) Introduction to Screen Practice or any previous version
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: Explore the interrelated nature of contemporary creative practice in the four principal disciplines as well as other fields through a series of seminars and workshops. In the seminar sessions, they will be introduced to the history and role of creative practice in various cultures, and the place of creative practice in contemporary society, both from an aesthetic, cultural and industry perspective, and invited to research and discuss key issues from the various topics. Through the workshop sessions, students will be asked to consider a number of creative tasks both as individuals and in groups, through which they will be introduced to different ways of approaching and managing creative production. Students will also be introduced to the impact new technologies on traditional creative practice and how to apply these technologies effectively in their own work.
Field of Education: 100701 Audio Visual Studies
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

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