School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Choreography 3
  • Unit Code

    DAN3236
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    25
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan Desley PEACOCK

Description

Advanced composition, including production attributes, is the principal focus of this unit. Students will further develop the ability to work with other artists, art forms and production staff. They will be expected to present choreographic work for the student concert and design dance compositions for digital media or platforms.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from DAN2136

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded AWD2203

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate competent skills in dance craft, presenting work in a public setting in collaboration with other artists and production media.
  2. Develop group composition utilising advanced spatial, sequential and dynamic organisation and processes to generate and further enhance movement sequences.
  3. Incorporate elements of design, costume, lighting, sound, set and visual components to enhance the movement composition.
  4. Integrate and transfer compositional skills into the digital media.

Unit Content

  1. Collaboration with other artists - composers, visual artists and the role of lighting, set and costumes in dance.
  2. Editing techniques in digital formats.
  3. Formats and potential functions of screen dance.
  4. Principles and development processes for group choreography.
  5. The use of digital resources to present, document and re-create work.
  6. The use of lighting, costume and other visual elements as they affect movement ideas.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Full YearNot Offered37 x 3 hour ensemblesNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Practical classes and demonstrations. Cross-disciplinary discussion and planning sessions. Rehearsals, performances.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
JournalJournal15%
PresentationShowing 110%
PresentationShowing 215%
PerformancePublic performance40%
Creative WorkFilm20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

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.

Academic Misconduct

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:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

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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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Choreography 3
  • Unit Code

    DAN3236
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    25
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan Desley PEACOCK

Description

Advanced composition, including production attributes, is the principal focus of this unit. Students will further develop the ability to work with other artists, art forms and production staff. They will be expected to present choreographic work for the student concert and design dance compositions for digital media or platforms.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from DAN2136

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded AWD2203

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate competent skills in dance craft, presenting work in a public setting in collaboration with other artists and production media.
  2. Develop group composition utilising advanced spatial, sequential and dynamic organisation and processes to generate and further enhance movement sequences.
  3. Incorporate elements of design, costume, lighting, sound, set and visual components to enhance the movement composition.
  4. Integrate and transfer compositional skills into the digital media.

Unit Content

  1. Collaboration with other artists - composers, visual artists and the role of lighting, set and costumes in dance.
  2. Editing techniques in digital formats.
  3. Formats and potential functions of screen dance.
  4. Principles and development processes for group choreography.
  5. The use of digital resources to present, document and re-create work.
  6. The use of lighting, costume and other visual elements as they affect movement ideas.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Full YearNot Offered37 x 3 hour ensemblesNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Practical classes and demonstrations. Cross-disciplinary discussion and planning sessions. Rehearsals, performances.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
JournalJournal15%
PresentationShowing 110%
PresentationShowing 215%
PerformancePublic performance40%
Creative WorkFilm20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

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.

Academic Misconduct

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:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

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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