Course Title: Creating your Appropriate Durable Record

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Creating your Appropriate Durable Record

Credit Points: 12.00

Important Information:

In Sem 2 2020 this course will be delivered online.


Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

VART3618

City Campus

Postgraduate

340H Art

Face-to-Face

Sem 1 2018,
Sem 2 2018,
Sem 1 2019,
Sem 2 2019,
Sem 1 2020,
Sem 2 2020

Course Coordinator: Dr Michael Graeve

Course Coordinator Phone: 03 9925 2747

Course Coordinator Email: michael.graeve@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 39.3.7

Course Coordinator Availability: per email


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Prerequisites:

None

 

Co-requisites:

None

 

Pre & Co requisites:

None

 

Note it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course.

For your information the RMIT Course Requisites policy can be found at: http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=twx09y07zi1c


Course Description

In this course, you will work with your supervisor to resolve your Appropriate Durable Record (ADR) for submission to an external examiner for the capstone event of your program - the presentation of your work to an industry assessor. This will additionally be supported by specific workshops which will help you formally structure your ADR so as to produce a clear and concise document. The workshops will tackle issues such as academic citation, research efficiency, sentence construction, clear and purposeful writing and paragraph function.

There are two elements to the capstone presentation: the exhibition, covered by Studio 4: Resolutions Beginnings - and submission of your ADR to an external examiner, covered in Creating your ADR. Having created a draft of the ADR in your previous semester the final drafts go through several levels of refinement to prepare it for final assessment and subsequent publishing. Expressing yourself in the language of research is a particular skill, which takes time and practice to acquire, and this course provides the necessary time and feedback to get it right. The ADR is the result of creative research and so you will find the most appropriate means to document that work - this can be a creative task all its own. 


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Program Learning Outcomes

In this course you will develop the following program learning outcomes:

  • Analyse and evaluate global, social, cultural, environmental and historical knowledge and contexts that may inform your art practice.
  • Research, analyse and synthesise information and select appropriate methods and resources within your art practice.
  • Produce and participate in discourse and scholarship that is globally informed, culturally and socially aware, ethical and respecting of difference and diversity.
  • Engage in autonomous and continuous learning concerning new developments in artistic production and associated discourses.


Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Edit and refine the theoretical arguments that underpin your artwork.
  2. Create an appropriate durable record of your creative research for print and for online access.


Overview of Learning Activities

You will work individually with your supervisor across several sessions to refine the draft of your ADR for submission. This will additionally be supported by specific workshops which will help you formally structure your ADR so as to produce a clear and concise document. The workshops will tackle issues such as academic citation, research efficiency, sentence construction, clear and purposeful writing and paragraph function.


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems. Please check Canvas for further details.

Students are able to make use of the online and hardcopy ADRs that are archived from previous Masters Coursework graduates. The texts and bibliographies provide an excellent and nuanced resource for the research of specific discourses in contemporary arts practice. Check Canvas for details.

The University Library has extensive resources for Art students. The Library has produced a subject guide that includes quality online and print resources for your studies [http://rmit.libguides.com/sb.php?subject_id=67925]

An extensive searchable reading list is made available to all enrolled students via Canvas. 

Additional support for academic writing can be accessed through the RMIT’s Study & Learning Centre https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/study-support/learning-lab    

The Postgraduate Research Seminars (PRS) are offered twice a year. These events provide opportunities to see students give concise and focussed presentations on their creative research.


Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes and on your development against the program capabilities.

 

Assessment tasks

  • Draft of your complete ADR mid-semester (6000 words) 10% CLO1, CLO2
  • A completed ADR for external assessment (Research Precis 50%, Annotated Methodology 40%) (6000 words) CLO1, CLO2

Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks.

If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or the Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.

A student charter http://www.rmit.edu.au/about/studentcharter summarises your responsibilities as an RMIT student as well as those of your teachers.

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions which are available for review online: http://www.rmit.edu.au/policies/academic#assessment