KYB320 Situated Creative Practice 2
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| Unit code: | KYB320 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | 168cp of completed study |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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Unit Outline: Semester 2 2026, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KYB320 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 168cp of completed study |
Overview
Professional creative practitioners require foresight and flexibility. They need to find and respond to opportunities; apply their knowledge and skills in a range of sites and contexts; respond to the needs of industry or community; and work on diverse projects with complex interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams—all while simultaneously maintaining and managing their own career path.
Drawing on skills and knowledges developed in KYB220 Creative Professional Practice, this unit helps further transition you to professional life by providing a range of creative project opportunities in collaboration with industry and/or community partners. You will encounter diverse perspectives on advanced creative practice and receive rich professional feedback on how to maximise the creative, intellectual and professional benefits of project experience.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Recognise appropriate professional opportunities and how to communicate your distinctive knowledge and skill set.
- Demonstrate accountability and integrity in a range of roles and contexts with a commitment to ethical decision making, especially concerning individual wellbeing and social and environmental sustainability.
- Work collaboratively in complex transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary project situations with diverse groups of people.
- Reflect meaningfully on project experiences in ways that assist your professional and creative development.
- Show initiative and competency in applying the appropriate organisational and professional skill set for effective leadership and teamwork in a project management setting.
Content
In addition to project-specific content supplied by staff project supervisors, you will also cover topics such as:
- introductory project planning;
- teamwork strategies;
- time management;
- ethical and sustainable work practices;
- effective communication;
- scholarly reflection on learning;
- presentation strategies.
Learning Approaches
Learning in this unit is based around your engagement in collaborative creative project/s. Staff supervisors will conduct scheduled project development activities, however the bulk of your work on a project/s will be autonomously organised team work to achieve an outcome for a QUT research lab, industry, or community partner.
Some projects may include fieldwork, temporary industry placements or shadowing, or working with community groups, and there is an emphasis on individual and group responsibility for the timely completion of project work and project outcomes.
Projects and individuals will be variously supported through a range of transdisciplinary learning activities focussing on topics such as advanced creative practice approaches and professional development opportunities. The projects contained in this unit utilise an embedded Work integrated learning (WIL) approach.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will be provided with formative feedback by your project supervisor/s and/or industry partners as you engage in project activities. You will also receive formal feedback for summative assessment items.
Assessment
Overview
The assessment items in this unit require you to:
- strategically harness your disciplinary creative and critical skills at a mastery level;
- actively engage in a collaborative project process and contribute to project outcomes;
- document, reflect upon, and promote your skills as a creative practitioner.
To complete the assessment tasks you will need to:
- apply and adapt your specialised disciplinary knowledge and technical skills;
- communicate, collaborate, and show professional leadership;
- engage in reflective, self-determined learning processes.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Project scoping
In this assessment you will examine the creative project, team composition and your skill set in order to develop a short presentation that outlines a proposal for your professional contribution to the project outcome.
Assessment: Creative Project
You will work collaboratively in a dynamic interdisciplinary team to deliver a creative outcome.
Assessment: Professional Practice Log
During the course of the semester you will be required to respond to key tasks as part of your engagement with the creative process, and the development of your own professional practice. These activities, and subsequent reflections will be detailed in your professional practice logbook that will be submitted at the end of semester. This workbook is a bringing together of the milestones that you complete throughout the semester as part of your creative project and tracks the development of the work in an interdisciplinary context. These tasks focus on project conceptualisation, collaboration in interdisciplinary teams, working with partners and to a brief, project management, professional practice and identity and reflection.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
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.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students are requested to visit and review the Health and Safety information on the HiQ web pages (CIESJ Tier 1 HSE requirement).
You will be advised if you are required to complete a Tier 2 CIESJ Health and Safety Induction which is provided by the technician on site in the theatre, workshop or studio, or a Tier 3 CIESJ Health and Safety Induction which is a hands on induction on specific machinery.
Blue Card
A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.
Costs
Effective participation in collaborative project work may require you to fund your own resources such as:
- data storage (e.g. external hard drives, cloud hosting),
- web publishing (e.g. domain hosting),
- fabrication costs (e.g. construction materials, 3d printing costs),
- production costs (e.g. equipment hire, incidental expenses),
- discipline specific equipment costs (e.g. musical instruments, electronic components, art materials).
Precise costs are dependent upon your discipline of creative practice and the project you work in. Alternative arrangements may be available for students experiencing financial hardship. Refer to the unit's Canvas site and consult with your Project Supervisor for more information.
Resources
Relevant resource materials will be made available via Canvas, Readings, and online project sites.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or QUT facilities, refer to the HiQ Health and Safety information.
For CIESJ Tiers 2 and 3 Health and Safety requirements, you will be instructed on safe procedures and the required safety gear for all studio and workshop processes that are demonstrated.
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.
Other required safety inductions will be conducted as required.
Creative practice often explores a wide range of topics and themes, some of which may touch upon sensitive or triggering subjects. While we believe in the power of storytelling and self-expression, we also want to prioritize your emotional well-being. Please be aware that this course may contain content that could potentially trigger or upset individuals. These triggering topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Sexual assault or violence
- Self-harm or suicide
- Substance abuse or addiction
- Eating disorders or body dysmorphia
- Mental health conditions or trauma
- Racism, discrimination, or hate speech
- Religious or political extremism
- Domestic or child abuse
- Loss or grief
- War or conflict
Please be advised that this unit may include the presentation and scholarly analysis of material and subject matters that may be considered confronting, such as certain representations of race, class, gender and violence. QUT counselling support is available should you feel the need to avail yourself of these services.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.CA01 Bachelor of Creative 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: ULO2, Project scoping, Creative Project, Professional Practice Log - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Project scoping, Creative Project, Professional Practice Log - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO4, Professional Practice Log - Communicate, represent, and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
Relates to: ULO1, Project scoping, Creative Project, Professional Practice Log - Discern, critically analyse, and synthesise knowledge in complex creative and critical settings.
Relates to: ULO4, Professional Practice Log - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO5, Project scoping, Creative Project, Professional Practice Log - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through contextual research, reflection, and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO4, Professional Practice Log - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, sustainability, and work with integrity across all practice and professional settings.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Project scoping, Creative Project, Professional Practice Log - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO5, Project scoping, Creative Project, Professional Practice Log
CA02 Bachelor of Creative Arts (Acting)
- 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: ULO2, Project scoping, Creative Project, Professional Practice Log - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Project scoping, Creative Project, Professional Practice Log - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO4, Professional Practice Log - Communicate, represent, and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
Relates to: ULO1, Project scoping, Creative Project, Professional Practice Log - Discern, critically analyse, and synthesise knowledge in complex creative and critical settings.
Relates to: ULO4, Professional Practice Log - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO5, Project scoping, Creative Project, Professional Practice Log - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through contextual research, reflection, and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO4, Professional Practice Log - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, sustainability, and work with integrity across all practice and professional settings.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Project scoping, Creative Project, Professional Practice Log - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO5, Project scoping, Creative Project, Professional Practice Log
KC40 Bachelor of Communication
- Demonstrate capacity to engage with and apply diverse ways of knowing the world in local and global contexts, including Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives.
Relates to: ULO3, Creative Project - Demonstrate effective communication skills with the ability to adapt strategies across different media and professional settings and for diverse audiences.
Relates to: ULO1, Project scoping, Creative Project, Professional Practice Log - Critically interrogate the economic and cultural power of digital media, communication, entertainment, and news to make ethical, sustainable, and inclusive contributions to diverse workplaces, communities, and audiences.
Relates to: ULO2, Project scoping, Creative Project, Professional Practice Log - Identify, develop, and sustain effective and responsible leadership strategies and teamwork skills that generate value for yourself and others.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO5, Project scoping, Creative Project, Professional Practice Log - Identify, develop, and sustain effective professional networks in the media and communication industries.
Relates to: ULO1, Project scoping, Creative Project, Professional Practice Log