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This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to approach the business aspects of working as a creative practitioner in a professional manner.
It applies to individuals who, depending on the creative practice, operate as sole practitioners, in artist cooperatives, or as freelance or contract workers. Regardless of the business model, all practitioners earning income from their practice engage with the professional business requirements for a sustainable creative practice. Independent creative practitioners sometimes work as employees in small and large organisations.
No licensing, legislative or certification conditions apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Evidence of the ability to:
- research and evaluate a broad range of complex and varied business information, including business structures, financial considerations, and legal rights and obligations
- develop cohesive approaches and strategies, that are grounded in research and analysis, for developing and managing own practice
- interact with other professionals on management and development issues
- identify professional work opportunities within and beyond the creative sectors, including new and emerging opportunities
- apply relevant legal and moral rights and obligations in own practice.
Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.
To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:
- summarise the types of behaviour, skills and practice that constitute a professional way of working in the specific area of creative practice
- outline professional development opportunities for the specific area of creative practice
- identify types and sources of external expertise and professional advice for creative practitioners that could be used in professional practice, including different industry organisations
- explain general business structures, practices, systems and procedures that apply to all professional practitioners, as well as typical ways that business is done in the specific area of creative practice
- summarise the physical resources needed for different types of professional practice and different ways they may be set up or accessed
- explain the financial management practices that apply to all professional practitioners, including financial models and structures that apply to the specific area of creative practice
- identify the factors to consider when costing and selling work and methods of selling work, including commissions
- summarise trends in the consumption of culture and creative products and their impact on professional creative practice
- list and describe the legal and moral obligations of creative practitioners, including intellectual property, work health and safety, and sustainability considerations.
Assessment must be conducted in a safe environment where evidence gathered demonstrates consistent performance of typical activities experienced in creative arts industry environments. The assessment environment must include access to:
- interaction with others
- general business information.
Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational educational and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.
GS5 VET GRADING SCHEMA Used for WAAPA VET only
Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.
For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.
Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:
Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.
The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.
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This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to approach the business aspects of working as a creative practitioner in a professional manner.
It applies to individuals who, depending on the creative practice, operate as sole practitioners, in artist cooperatives, or as freelance or contract workers. Regardless of the business model, all practitioners earning income from their practice engage with the professional business requirements for a sustainable creative practice. Independent creative practitioners sometimes work as employees in small and large organisations.
No licensing, legislative or certification conditions apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Evidence of the ability to:
- research and evaluate a broad range of complex and varied business information, including business structures, financial considerations, and legal rights and obligations
- develop cohesive approaches and strategies, that are grounded in research and analysis, for developing and managing own practice
- interact with other professionals on management and development issues
- identify professional work opportunities within and beyond the creative sectors, including new and emerging opportunities
- apply relevant legal and moral rights and obligations in own practice.
Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.
To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:
- summarise the types of behaviour, skills and practice that constitute a professional way of working in the specific area of creative practice
- outline professional development opportunities for the specific area of creative practice
- identify types and sources of external expertise and professional advice for creative practitioners that could be used in professional practice, including different industry organisations
- explain general business structures, practices, systems and procedures that apply to all professional practitioners, as well as typical ways that business is done in the specific area of creative practice
- summarise the physical resources needed for different types of professional practice and different ways they may be set up or accessed
- explain the financial management practices that apply to all professional practitioners, including financial models and structures that apply to the specific area of creative practice
- identify the factors to consider when costing and selling work and methods of selling work, including commissions
- summarise trends in the consumption of culture and creative products and their impact on professional creative practice
- list and describe the legal and moral obligations of creative practitioners, including intellectual property, work health and safety, and sustainability considerations.
Assessment must be conducted in a safe environment where evidence gathered demonstrates consistent performance of typical activities experienced in creative arts industry environments. The assessment environment must include access to:
- interaction with others
- general business information.
Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational educational and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.
GS5 VET GRADING SCHEMA Used for WAAPA VET only
Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.
For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.
Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:
Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.
The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.
CUAPPR603|1|2