Course Title: Explore the history and social impact of creativity

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C4361

Course Title: Explore the history and social impact of creativity

Portfolio: BUS

Nominal Hours: 50.0

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
MKTG7942C	City Campus	TAFE	650T Vocational Business Education	Face-to-Face	Term1 2016

Course Contact: Sally Parrott

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 5175

Course Contact Email: sally.parrott@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to explore the history and social impact of creativity.

It applies to individuals who develop and apply a broad knowledge of the history of creativity. Understanding the concept of creativity, how creative people think and how creativity has been applied throughout history can provide individuals with inspiration and ideas to take into their own work and lives.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	BSBCRT403 Explore the history and social impact of creativity
Elements:	1 Investigate the history of creativity
	2 Assess the impacts of creativity
	3 Evaluate the potential for enhancing creativity in own life

Learning Outcomes

This course is structured to provide students with the optimum learning experience in order to demonstrate the skills and knowledge required to explore the history and social impact of creativity; develop and apply a broad knowledge of the history of creativity; and understanding the concept of creativity, how creative people think and how creativity has been applied throughout history can provide individuals with inspiration and ideas to take into their own work and lives.

Overview of Assessment

Assessment Methods
Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievement of the requirements in a flexible manner over a range of assessment tasks, for example:

• direct questioning combined with review of portfolios of evidence and third party workplace reports of on-the-job performance by the candidate
• review of final printed documents
• demonstration of techniques
• observation of presentations
• oral or written questioning to assess knowledge of software applications

You are advised that you are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate your assessment work to your teacher to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met.

Performance Evidence

You must provide evidence of the ability to:

• conduct at least ONE research project into the historical and social impact of creativity that includes:
  - using a range of information sources
  - presenting findings and encourage discussion and debate, respecting different perspectives and ideas
  - identifying and accessing ways to build own creative thinking skills.

Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:

• describe the impact of creativity at different points in history, including contemporary perspectives
• explain the potential links between the history of creativity and current individuals and communities
• identify sources of information on the history and social impact of creativity
• outline different factors that impact on creativity.

Feedback

Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or online discussions. You are encouraged to ask and answer questions during class time and online sessions so that you can obtain feedback on your understanding of the concepts and issues being discussed. Finally, you can email or arrange an appointment with your teacher to gain more feedback on your progress.

You should take note of all feedback received and use this information to improve your learning outcomes and final performance in the course.