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Major Project (Screenwriting) (FLTV40010)
HonoursPoints: 75On Campus (Southbank)
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Overview
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Through a course of research, students undertake their year-long project under the guidance of their individual supervisor for presentation at the end of the academic year. The major project can consist of single defined project and/or contributions to a number of projects depending on the nature of the discipline. At the time of selection the written outline of the proposed major project or major field of study is submitted. This provides the framework for developing the lines of inquiry taken by the student and the final creative work outcome.
Intended learning outcomes
This subject will:
- prepare students for research-led graduate study;
- provide students of proven ability to undertake advanced work in their chosen discipline;
- develop the student’s capabilities, as a better informed, skilled and more articulate artist;
- develop a high level of artistic practice and further develop analytical, critical and research skills
- promote critical reflection on the work produced and the artist’s role in society;
- produce professional practitioners in the fine arts.
Generic skills
On completing this subject, students will have acquired key skills including:
- the ability to engage in independent and contextually-informed artistic practice;
- well developed and flexible problem-solving abilities appropriate to the discipline;
- the capacity to effectively communicate the results of research and scholarship by oral and written means;
- an ability to formulate viable research questions;
- a capacity for critical evaluation of relevant scholarly literature and artistic practice;
- an ability to manage time and to maximise the quality of research and scholarship;
- an understanding of, and facility with, scholarly conventions in the discipline area
- an understanding of the relationship with and responsibility to the cultural environment and society;
- respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethic of research and scholarship
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
A creative work major project to the equivalent of a 15, 000 word dissertation.
The creative work major project outcome may take the form of a performance, exhibition, writing (poetry, fiction, script or other written literary forms), design, film, video, multimedia, CD, DVD or other new media technologies and modes of presentation.
Progress in this area will be monitored both by individual supervisors and a mid-year review. Mid-year reviews identify students at risk and take into account the student's progress against course engagement and project development and other areas relevant to individual disciplines.
The research project will be assessed at the end of the academic year in the assessment period. A single mark (100%) is assigned at the end of the year.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Year Long
Principal coordinator Siobhan Jackson Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours Seminars and contact with supervisors as appropriate. Total time commitment 1,020 hours Teaching period 26 February 2018 to 21 October 2018 Last self-enrol date 9 March 2018 Census date 31 May 2018 Last date to withdraw without fail 21 September 2018 Assessment period ends 16 November 2018 Year Long contact information
Time commitment details
1020 hours
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Major Screenwriting
Last updated: 3 November 2022