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Youth Arts: Expressing Cultural Identity (EDUC20062)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5Not available in 2020
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Overview
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This subject will explore how young people create their social and personal identities through the arts (including visual and performing arts), and use these processes to relate to peers and society. This subject is taught in intensive mode with a combination of tutorials and cultural site visits. Students will investigate trends in young people's use of the arts to develop and express individualities, and then create an 'artefact' using the arts to illustrate understandings of these trends. Student understanding of youth arts will be contextualised through investigations into the companies, organisations and individuals who provide or facilitate visual and performing arts works and experiences for young people. The subject will support the students to understand the processes associated with art-making with young people. During some of the classes, students may have the opportunity to work alongside young people from Victorian secondary schools on the practical class activities.
Intended learning outcomes
At the completion of this subject, students will:
- Develop greater understanding of contemporary social cultural theories;
- Experience a range of arts practices as art-makers and/or audience members;
- Develop skills in applying arts making and responding skills to workplace situations;
- Explore and develop personal understanding of the ways young people use the arts and technology/digital media when developing and expressing personal values, beliefs and personal identity;
- Practise skills of critical reflection and critique
Generic skills
This subject will assist students to acquire the following graduate attributes:
- A strong sense of intellectual integrity and the ethics of scholarship;
- In-depth knowledge of their specialist modes of expression;
- Critical and creative thinkers, with an aptitude for continued self-directed learning;
- Expand their analytical and cognitive skills through learning experiences in diverse settings;
- The capacity to participate fully in collaborative learning and to confront unfamiliar problems;
- The capacity to initiate and implement constructive change in their communities, including professions and workplaces;
- Excellent interpersonal and decision-making skills, including an awareness of personal strengths and limitations;
- An awareness of the strategies to initiate and implement constructive change in their communities, including professions and workplaces.
Last updated: 22 March 2024
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: 22 March 2024
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Class presentation - Practical arts-based presentation
| End of the teaching period | 40% |
Discussion Board Reports (3): comprising a 'street research' response; a critical response to one lecture; and an evaluation of one workshop
| 2 Weeks after the end of teaching | 20% |
Written 'Exegesis'
| 13 Weeks after the end of teaching | 40% |
Hurdle requirement: Minimum of 80% attendance at all scheduled lectures, tutorials, seminars and workshops. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
Not available in 2020
Time commitment details
170 hours
Additional delivery details
Pre-teaching period:
During the pre-teaching period, students will be required to complete reading that will be provided via LMS.
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Course readings and cultural site critiques will be provided.
- Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Environments
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
- Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 22 March 2024