Course Title: Address legal and administrative requirements
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2011
Course Code: BUSM6276C
Course Title: Address legal and administrative requirements
School: 340T Art
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5234 - Diploma of Visual Art
Course Contact : Jennifer Cabraja
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4472
Course Contact Email:TAFEArt@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Jennifer Mills
Email: jennifer.mills@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 50
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.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None
Course Description
This course develops your skills and knowledge required to ensure that business or project comply with relevant legislative and regulatory requirements. It introduces you to the skills needed in setting up and managing legal and administrative aspects of businesses and projects in a cultural industry context.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
CUSADM09A Address legal and administrative requirements |
Element: |
1. Establish legal structures for businesses or projects |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Examine the legal options for setting up a business or project to determine the most suitable structure, taking into account: |
Element: |
2. Comply with statutory and regulatory requirements |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Ascertain the statutory and regulatory requirements affecting the way the business operates and take appropriate steps to ensure adequate cover and full compliance |
Element: |
3. Establish rights to materials, products/services |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Seek information on any procurement rights needed to ensure that the implications are fully understood |
Element: |
4. Secure rights to materials/products/ services |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Assess materials, products and services to determine procurement rights |
Learning Outcomes
This course will provide you with a focus on the acquisition of essential industry skills.
You will learn the following:
- How to make a proposal for funding
- How to prepare a budget
- Legal considerations relevant to a project
- How to negotiate project requirements
- Skills to liaise effectively.
On successful completion of this course, you will be able to undertake the following:
- Understand how to interpret a project brief
- Be able to respond creatively and imaginatively to a project brief
- Be aware of legal and administrative requirements necessary to successfully undertake the project
- Have developed effective negotiation skills
- Have prepared a proposal suitable for submission.
Details of Learning Activities
In this course, you will learn through:
1. In class activities:
- lectures
- handouts
- industry speakers
- excursion and field trips
- practicing artists
- teacher directed group activities/projects
- class exercises to review discussions/lectures/projects
- class presentations
- group discussion
- class exercises to review discussion/lectures.
- practical exercises
- reading articles and excerpts
- preparing for discussion
- report writing
- project work
- independent research
- revision.
Teaching Schedule
Week |
Please note: While your teacher will cover all the material in this schedule, the weekly order is subject to change depending on class needs and availability of speakers and resources. Course content |
1 | Orientation and introduction to the course
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2 | Topic 1 The business of being an artist Planning a project, what does the artist need to consider when conceiving, creating funding and exhibiting their artwork, including sustainability and good practice principles. Students will be asked to consider a project for exhibition. Homework: research artist run initiatives for next week. Introduction to the Unit Sustainable Work Practices which will be taught within the Address Legal and Administrative Unit. |
3 | Topic 2 Overview of the arts community Galleries: Publicly funded, commercial and particularly Artist-run-initiatives (ARIs). Selecting a suitable venue, what to consider: size, location, layout, costs, opening hours, public accessibility, profile, culture. Researching, and writing an exhibition proposal. |
4 | Excursion Visit ARIs in assigned groups |
5 | Topic 3 The artist’s statement
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6 | Topic 4 Design support material for a visual artist
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7 | Topic 5 The studio - part 1 What needs to be considered when finding a space in which to make and exhibit art. OHS, insurance, sustainable work practices in the studio. Strategies for analysing, planning, improving and monitoring sustainable practices. The focus will be on how to sustain and minimizing the environmental impact of an individual artistic practice. What regulations, laws, and responsibilities need to be considered. Sustainability task 1. |
8 | The studio - part 2 Sustainability task 2 |
9 | Peer review Students will be asked to share and discuss their completed proposals with a small, allocated group of peers for review. |
10 | Topic 6 Code of practice
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11 | Topic 6 Code of practice 2
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12 | Topic 6 Code of practice 3
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13 | Topic 7 Budget part 2
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14-16 |
Topic 8 Residencies and prizes Topic 9 Dealing with the ups and downs – rejection letters, knock backs and post exhibition blues Topic 10 Assessment review and feedback Quiz |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
You will require access to the sources of information needed to deal with legal issues relating to the music, television, radio and multimedia industry sectors is required. There is no specialist equipment required but access to a computer and appropriate software would be useful.
Overview of Assessment
To demonstrate competency in this course, you will need to complete the following evidence of assessment to a satisfactory standard. You will receive feedback on all assessment. On completion of this course, you will receive graded assessment.
Assessment may incorporate a range of methods to assess performance and the application of essential underpinning knowledge, and might include:
- case studies
- work samples or simulated workplace activities
- oral questioning/interview
- projects/reports/logbooks
- third party reports and authenticated prior achievements
- portfolios of evidence.
Assessment must take place over a period of time in order to determine competence in the ongoing implementation and monitoring aspects of this unit.
Assessment Tasks
To demonstrate competency in this course, you will need to complete the following pieces of assessment to a satisfactory standard. You will receive feedback on all assessment.
You will need to complete 3 assessment tasks for assessment of this course:
- Exhibition proposal
- Funding/Grant application
- Research diary (including class notes and handouts).
Grades used in this course are as follows:
- CHDCompetent with high distinction
- CDI Competent with distinction
- CC Competent with credit
- CAGCompetent achieved - graded
- NYCNot Yet Competent
- DNSDid not submit for assessment
Assessment Matrix
Assessment evidence | Element | Performance criteria | Essential skills | Essential knowledge | Critical aspect of assessment |
Exhibition proposal | 1. Establish legal structures for businesses or projects 2. Comply with statutory and regulatory requirements |
1.1, 1.2,1.3 2.4, 2.5 |
Assessment must include evidence of essential skills in, the following areas:
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Assessment must include evidence of essential knowledge the following areas:
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The following evidence is critical to the judgment of competence in this unit:
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Funding/grant application | 3. Establish rights to materials, products/services 4. Secure rights to materials/products/ services |
3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 4.1, 4.2 , |
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Research diary | 2. Comply with statutory and regulatory requirements | 2.1, 2.2, 2.5 |
Other Information
Feedback
You will receive verbal and written feedback by teacher on your work. This feedback also includes suggestions on how you can proceed to the next stage of developing your projects.
Plagiarism
RMIT has a strict policy on plagiarism. Please refer to the website for more information on this policy.
Special consideration Policy (Late Submission)
All assessment tasks are required to be completed to a satisfactory level. If you are unable to complete any piece of assessment by the due date, you will need to apply for an extension.
Please refer to the following URL for extensions and special consideration:
http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=qkssnx1c5r0y;STATUS=A;PAGE_AUTHOR=Andrea%20Syers;SECTION=1;
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