School: Arts and Humanities

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

    Creativity
  • Unit Code

    SAH1150
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Laura GLITSOS

Description

This unit examines the importance and use of creativity in professional practice. The unit encourages students to critically reflect on the roles of creativity in their discipline. Upon completion, students will develop creative processes through a reflective, iterative process of idea generation, development, evaluation and reconfiguration.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply a range of tools and techniques for generating creative thinking.
  2. Produce collaborative creative discipline-related artefacts.
  3. Describe the historical and cultural development of ideas concerning creativity.
  4. Discuss the role of creativity in society, its impacts and the factors that influence its development in professional practice.

Unit Content

  1. Creative methods.
  2. Tools, techniques and environments to enhance creativity.
  3. Individual and group practices for engendering creativity.
  4. The human body, the playful mind and creativity.
  5. Convergent/divergent thinking, metaphor and bisociation.
  6. Natural forms and creativity.
  7. Working with creative ideas to bring them to fruition.
  8. The historical and theoretical development of creativity.
  9. Models of creative practice.
  10. Action research.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 2 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 1 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures introduce the theory, history and methods commonly associated with creativity. Class activities involves students using a range of tools and techniques for generating and working with creative ideas to establish those methods that work well in particular contexts. Through class discussions and ePortfolios, students will explore and reflect on what constitutes a creative person, creative product, processes and strategies for creativity.

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
Annotated Bibliography A negotiated plan/contract 10%
PortfolioReflective blog60%
ProjectCreative project 30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Annotated Bibliography A negotiated plan/contract 10%
PortfolioReflective blog60%
ProjectCreative project30%

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.

SAH1150|1|1

School: Arts and Humanities

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

    Creativity
  • Unit Code

    SAH1150
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Andrew Michael EWING

Description

This unit examines the importance and use of creativity in professional practice. The unit encourages students to critically reflect on the roles of creativity in their discipline. Upon completion, students will develop creative processes through a reflective, iterative process of idea generation, development, evaluation and reconfiguration.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded {CCA1103}

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply a range of tools and techniques for generating creative thinking.
  2. Produce collaborative creative discipline-related artefacts.
  3. Describe the historical and cultural development of ideas concerning creativity.
  4. Discuss the role of creativity in society, its impacts and the factors that influence its development in professional practice.

Unit Content

  1. Creative methods.
  2. Tools, techniques and environments to enhance creativity.
  3. Individual and group practices for engendering creativity.
  4. The human body, the playful mind and creativity.
  5. Convergent/divergent thinking, metaphor and bisociation.
  6. Natural forms and creativity.
  7. Working with creative ideas to bring them to fruition.
  8. The historical and theoretical development of creativity.
  9. Models of creative practice.
  10. Action research.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures introduce the theory, history and methods commonly associated with creativity. Class activities involves students using a range of tools and techniques for generating and working with creative ideas to establish those methods that work well in particular contexts. Through class discussions and ePortfolios, students will explore and reflect on what constitutes a creative person, creative product, processes and strategies for creativity.

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
Annotated Bibliography A negotiated plan/contract 10%
PortfolioReflective blog60%
ProjectCreative project 30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Annotated Bibliography A negotiated plan/contract 10%
PortfolioReflective blog60%
ProjectCreative project30%

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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