Unit Outline

Responding innovatively to a client-initiated briefs is a critical part of working in the creative and cultural industries. This unit fosters collaborative, responsive interaction with internal and external partners and your peers. Introducing a range of interdisciplinary frameworks, this unit builds a toolkit of methods necessary for creative practice that can shape and influence the future. This approach allows for thinking big and small, local and global. Working with a brief, you will learn how to work through ethical and resourcing considerations for your conceptual thinking, negotiate stakeholder engagement, and leverage your creative practice to intervene in dominant ways of thinking and making. Combined with emergent technological, social or economic practices, you will be mentored in how to contribute new ideas and ways of doing through collaboration. An achievable client brief will set realistic expectations for student engagement with a primary focus on the development of your disciplinary practice and portfolio. You will gain skills in interpreting and responding to client briefs, reporting on milestones, and adapting interests or motivations to achieve a common goal. Projects will be in collaboration with partners, or they will identify collaboration between the disciplines. Projects will shift semester to semester, and appropriateness of the project to individual skill-sets will depend on the available task/s.

Intended Learning Outcomes

As per the Assessment and Results Policy 1.3, your results will reflect your achievement against specified learning outcomes.

On completion of this unit, you will be able to:


1.	Apply disciplinary knowledge to formulate a research-led response to a client brief in a collaborative context
2.	Critically engage and deploy relevant methods and frameworks to develop a project from a brief
3.	Analyse the role of collaboration in the creative and cultural industries and to your individual creative practice

Requisites


REQUISITE TYPE	REQUISITES
Pre-requisite	50 credit points at Intermediate (200) level

Alterations as a result of student feedback

How will I be Assessed?

For more detailed assessment information please see MyLO.

Assessment schedule


ASSESSMENT TASK #	ASSESSMENT TASK NAME	DATE DUE	WEIGHT	LINKS TO INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Assessment Task 1:	Task 1: Pitch Brief	See the MyLO site for the due date	20 %	LO1, LO2, LO3
Assessment Task 2:	Task 2: Milestone report and analysis	See the MyLO site for the due date	30 %	LO1, LO2, LO3
Assessment Task 3:	Task 3: Portfolio	See the MyLO site for the due date	50 %	LO1, LO2, LO3

Assessment details

Assessment Task 1: Task 1: Pitch Brief

Task Description:

Identify an element of social research or data that you are interested in exploring creatively that responds to the brief set by the client. Develop an initial pitch that demonstrates how you will apply your disciplinary interests to this research

Task Length:

750 words

Due Date:

See the MyLO site for the due date

Weight:

20 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Demonstrate an advanced understanding of client briefs and their role in the creative and cultural industries	LO1, LO2
2	Deliver clear, concise and industry specific responses to a brief	LO2, LO3
3	Develop an achievable and professional plan for the completion of your project with manageable timeframes, resources and research aims.	LO1, LO2

Assessment Task 2: Task 2: Milestone report and analysis

Task Description:

Update the class on the developments that you have made in advancing your understanding of the issue and the development of your project for the portfolio, and present an analysis of how the project is drawing upon external research.

Task Length:

3 minute presentation and 1000 word analysis

Due Date:

See the MyLO site for the due date

Weight:

30 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Analyse your individual contribution to the collaboration by responding to process and aims	LO2, LO3
2	Demonstrate connection between your role in this project to your disciplinary creative practice or interest	LO1
3	Provide critical reflection on the relevance of theoretical and industrial frameworks for the completion of your portfolio	LO1, LO2, LO3
4	Analyse your response to feedback throughout the semester	LO1, LO3

Assessment Task 3: Task 3: Portfolio

Task Description:

Present a portfolio that demonstrates that you have met the client brief in delivering a creative work or work-in-progress. The portfolio will also demonstrate planned distribution or implementation, as well as place the creative work in a research context.

Task Length:

3000 words or equivalent

Due Date:

See the MyLO site for the due date

Weight:

50 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Produce a coherent, professional and edited portfolio of your response to the client brief	LO2
2	Demonstrate the relationship between aspects of the brief and your final outputs	LO1, LO2, LO3
3	Clearly link your creative outputs to your disciplinary practice or research interests, demonstrating an analytical approach to your output	LO1, LO2, LO3

How your final result is determined

To pass this unit, you need to demonstrate your attainment of each of the Intended Learning Outcomes, achieve a final unit grade of 50% or greater, and pass any hurdle tasks.

Submission of assignments

Where practicable, assignments should be submitted to an assignment submission folder in MYLO. You must submit assignments by the due date or receive a penalty (unless an extension of time has been approved by the Unit Coordinator). Students submitting any assignment in hard copy, or because of a practicum finalisation, must attach a student cover sheet and signed declaration for the submission to be accepted for marking.

Requests for extensions

If you are unable to submit an assessment task by the due date, you should apply for an extension.

A request for an extension should first be discussed with your Unit Coordinator or teaching support team where possible. A request for an extension must be submitted by the assessment due date, except where you can provide evidence it was not possible to do so. Typically, an application for an extension will be supported by documentary evidence: however, where it is not possible for you to provide evidence please contact your Unit Coordinator.

The Unit Coordinator must notify you of the outcome of an extension request within 3 working days of receiving the request.

Late penalties

Assignments submitted after the deadline will receive a late penalty of 5% of the original available mark for each calendar day (or part day) that the assignment is late. Late submissions will not be accepted more than 10 calendar days after the due date, or after assignments have been returned to other students on a scheduled date, whichever occurs first. Further information on Late Penalties can be found on the Assessments and Results Procedure.

Review of results and appeals

You are entitled to ask for a review of the marking and grading of your assessment task if there is an irregularity in the marking standards or an error in the process for determining the outcome of an assessment. Details on how to request a review of a mark for an assignment are outlined in the Review and Appeal of Academic Decisions Procedure.