MMM796 - Managing Arts in Community Settings

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 2: Online
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 2: Anne Kershaw
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

Online independent and asynchronous collaborative learning up to a maximum of 3 hours each week. In addition, there will be 3 online seminars of 2 hours duration over the trimester.

Content

Community based arts are a valuable tool for building strong communities and creating art works that are authentic and distinctive. There is also growing interest in the use of participatory art processes to enable new and dynamic relationships between artists and their audiences. This unit addresses the knowledge and skills needed to engage diverse communities in arts projects, and manage community creative processes.

The unit focuses on the design and management of art projects that enable collaborative and participatory processes. It considers this work from the context of arts organisations, government and the community sector. The unit also considers the role of community-based arts within the creative ecosystem. This broader perspective leads to the analysis of: planning and provision of arts venues; public art commissioning processes; arts based social enterprises; development of creative strategies and policies; and program evaluation.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes

ULO1

Appraise the use of different approaches and tools in the design of arts project that engage communities.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

ULO2

Design community-based art projects that engage target communities.

GLO5: Problem solving

ULO3

Develop research programs to evaluate community-based arts activity 

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO4

Contribute to an online community of learners and practitioners in the field of community based art.

GLO7: Teamwork

ULO5

Evaluate the ways in which previous community based art initiatives have responded to ethical considerations, and develop principles to be applied to future projects. These ethical considerations will include projects that engage Indigenous and culturally diverse communities. GLO8: Global citizenship

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week 
Assessment 1: (Individual) Project Proposal 2500 words 50% Week 9
Assessment 2: (Individual) Continuous Program Based Assessment 2500 words 50% Weekly

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

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