KYB102 Pathways to a Creative Career
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| Unit code: | KYB102 |
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| Equivalent(s): | KKB180, KKB101, KKD101 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,320 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KYB102 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KKB180, KKB101, KKD101 |
| Coordinators: | Thomas Studley | thomas.studley@qut.edu.au Naomi Blacklock | n.blacklock@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit helps you develop a professional identity. It introduces the principles and skills required for professional creative practice, including tacit knowledge, education and career planning, and professional development for creative industries practitioners. As such, it addresses personal branding, communicating about your work in professional contexts, navigating ethical and regulatory questions, self-care in practice, working toward a distinctive skill set and setting career goals. Creative practitioners begin developing a professional network during the course of their studies and a foundational understanding of how to build and maintain that network.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Explain and discuss your understanding of the key concepts and contemporary contexts underpinning a creative practice career.
- Identify and analyse strategies for successful creative practice and apply them to a career plan.
- Reflect on your strengths and the challenges in creative practice, and identify how best to respond to these.
- Communicate a professional creative identity and produce a personal development plan.
Content
Unit content may include: an introduction to the principles of cultural capital; career design and planning; possible career pathways in your disciplinary field and beyond; communication skills; regulatory and ethical contexts for practice; well-being and personal branding in the creative industries.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will engage in a combination of tutorial workshops, lectures, online modules and site visits, where you will observe professional creative practice strategies. This blended learning environment will encourage you to engage in both face to face and online discussions to support your learning.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Formative feedback will be provided in tutorial discussions and online, as well as through assessment grading. As well as feedback from your lecturers and tutors on assessments, constructive feedback from your peers will be encouraged. There will also be a range of formative exercises which will give you opportunities to assess progress on your learning. Comments on assessments from your tutors and lecturers may also be communicated to the whole student cohort via your Canvas unit website.
Assessment
Overview
The three individual assessment items in this unit will encourage you to focus on your approach to a career in the creative industries, to document your strengths and capabilities, and to reflect on the likely challenges you might face as you progress into the future. To this end, you are asked to submit a case study of a successful creative practitioner (40%). You are also asked to produce a draft CV and professional development plan (10%), which you develop into a more refined presentation and submit online (50%). Assessment 1 and 2 form the foundation for Assessment 3.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Creative Career Case Study
You will select a successful creative practitioner in your chosen field and produce a written analysis of their professional identity and career trajectory (800 words).
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Self-assessment
You will reflect on your current skills and attributes in the context of the creative industries in order to produce a draft CV and professional development plan, including complementary study choices (500 words).
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Prof Creative Career Plan
Using information gathered through your case study and your self-assessment, you will prepare an online plan for your own professional development throughout your studies and beyond (as an online presentation).
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
Resource materials for this unit will be supplied on Canvas.
Resource Materials
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO1 - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO2 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1 - Represent and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
Relates to: ULO4 - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO3 - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, and work with integrity across creative practice networks.
Relates to: ULO3 - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism in creative practice, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO4
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | KYB102 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KKB180, KKB101, KKD101 |
Overview
This unit helps you develop a professional identity. It introduces the principles and skills required for professional creative practice, including tacit knowledge, education and career planning, and professional development for creative industries practitioners. As such, it addresses personal branding, communicating about your work in professional contexts, navigating ethical and regulatory questions, self-care in practice, working toward a distinctive skill set and setting career goals. Creative practitioners begin developing a professional network during the course of their studies and a foundational understanding of how to build and maintain that network.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Explain and discuss your understanding of the key concepts and contemporary contexts underpinning a creative practice career.
- Identify and analyse strategies for successful creative practice and apply them to a career plan.
- Reflect on your strengths and the challenges in creative practice, and identify how best to respond to these.
- Communicate a professional creative identity and produce a personal development plan.
Content
Unit content may include: an introduction to the principles of cultural capital; career design and planning; possible career pathways in your disciplinary field and beyond; communication skills; regulatory and ethical contexts for practice; well-being and personal branding in the creative industries.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will engage in a combination of tutorial workshops, lectures, online modules and site visits, where you will observe professional creative practice strategies. This blended learning environment will encourage you to engage in both face to face and online discussions to support your learning.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Formative feedback will be provided in tutorial discussions and online, as well as through assessment grading. As well as feedback from your lecturers and tutors on assessments, constructive feedback from your peers will be encouraged. There will also be a range of formative exercises which will give you opportunities to assess progress on your learning. Comments on assessments from your tutors and lecturers may also be communicated to the whole student cohort via your Canvas unit website.
Assessment
Overview
The three individual assessment items in this unit will encourage you to focus on your approach to a career in the creative industries, to document your strengths and capabilities, and to reflect on the likely challenges you might face as you progress into the future. To this end, you are asked to submit a case study of a successful creative practitioner (40%). You are also asked to produce a draft CV and professional development plan (10%), which you develop into a more refined presentation and submit online (50%). Assessment 1 and 2 form the foundation for Assessment 3.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Creative Career Case Study
You will select a successful creative practitioner in your chosen field and produce a written analysis of their professional identity and career trajectory (800 words).
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Self-assessment
You will reflect on your current skills and attributes in the context of the creative industries in order to produce a draft CV and professional development plan, including complementary study choices (500 words).
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Prof Creative Career Plan
Using information gathered through your case study and your self-assessment, you will prepare an online plan for your own professional development throughout your studies and beyond (as an online presentation).
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
Resource materials for this unit will be supplied on Canvas.
Resource Materials
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO1 - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO2 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1 - Represent and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
Relates to: ULO4 - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO3 - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, and work with integrity across creative practice networks.
Relates to: ULO3 - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism in creative practice, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO4