Arts, Digital Futures and Global Worlds (EDUC91328)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
Overview
| Availability | Semester 1 - Online |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
This subject explores the transformative impact of digital technologies on the global arts landscape to develop a holistic appreciation for the complexities of contemporary arts education practices and pedagogies.
With a focus on the convergence of creativity, cultural sustainability, and global education perspectives, you will critically engage in digital futures and the ways futures influence global arts practices. Knowledge and skills, including speculative inquiry, critical analysis, and arts-based educational research, are developed to inquire into specific areas within global arts and digital practices underscoring both analytical and reflective abilities.
Through explorations of digital futures and global worlds, you will gain insights into the intersections and interactions between contemporary artistic practices, emerging digital technologies, and the globalised context within which these phenomena take place.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Investigate and critically analyse the impact of digital futures on global arts practices, focusing on the intersections of creativity, cultural sustainability, and global educational perspectives.
- Engage with and evaluate contemporary research related to digital technologies in arts education, considering its implications for diverse knowledges, communities, and sectors.
- Critically reflect on the role of digital futures in representing and promoting First Nations' cultures, histories, and knowledges in the arts, ensuring respect for diversity and inclusion, and ethical considerations and responsibilities in a digital, globalised world.
- Explore the dynamics of global digital arts platforms and their potential to both uphold and challenge traditional and First Nations' arts practices and knowledges.
- Reflect and analyse capacities essential to conduct informed research inquiries into specific areas of interest within the broader scope of arts, digital futures, and global worlds.
Generic skills
This subject will assist students to develop the following transferable skills:
- Communication
- Active and participatory citizenship
- Critical reasoning and thinking
- Self-reflection, career awareness and lifelong learning.
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Option 1 - Master of Education 200pt Program
Admission into the 200pt Program course entry point in the MC-ED Master of Education
AND
A minimum of 100 credit points in Master of Education
AND
| Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDUC91317 | Foundations: Curriculum |
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Option 2 - Master of Education 150pt Program
Admission into the 150pt Program course entry point in the MC-ED Master of Education
AND
A minimum of 50 credit points in Master of Education
AND
| Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDUC91317 | Foundations: Curriculum |
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Option 3 - Master of Education 100pt Program
Admission into the 100pt Program course entry point in the MC-ED Master of Education
Option 4 - Master of Instructional Leadership
Admission into the MC-INSLEAD Master of Instructional Leadership
Option 5 - Prior to Mid-Year 2024 Students
Commencement prior to mid-year 2024 in the MC-ED Master of Education, MC-TESOL Master of TESOL, or MC-MLED Master of Modern Languages Education
AND
50 credit points from
| Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDUC90929 | Education Policy in Context |
Semester 2 (Online)
Semester 1 (Online)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| EDUC91316 | Engaging with Research in Education |
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Online)
Semester 1 (Online)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| EDUC91030 | Research in Educational Relationships | No longer available | |
| EDUC90900 | Resilience and Relationships |
Term 3 (Online)
Term 1 (Online)
|
12.5 |
| EDUC90930 | Literacies in Local and Global Contexts |
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (Online)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Online)
|
12.5 |
| EDUC91029 | Understanding the Student as Learner |
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Online)
Semester 1 (Online)
|
12.5 |
| EDUC90830 | The Student as Learner |
Term 1 (Online)
Term 3 (Online)
|
12.5 |
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: 4 March 2025
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Research inquiry: Explore a question that critically analyses and engages with diverse knowledges, communities, cultures and sectors
| Mid teaching period | 40% |
Scholarly Conference Paper: Pecha Kucha presentation and critical reflection in the form of a conference paper
| During the assessment period | 60% |
Attendance Hurdle requirement: A minimum of 75% attendance at, or engagement with, all sessions identified as contact hours (may include lectures, tutorials, seminars, workshops and activities, both synchronous and asynchronous). | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Dates & times
- Semester 1 - Online
Principal coordinator Sarah Healy Coordinator Brad Merrick Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 24 hours comprising 8 x 2 hour sycnronous online seminars and 8 hours asynchronous activities Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 3 March 2025 to 1 June 2025 Last self-enrol date 14 March 2025 Census date 31 March 2025 Last date to withdraw without fail 9 May 2025 Assessment period ends 27 June 2025 Semester 1 contact information
What do these dates mean
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- Your tuition fees, academic transcript and statements.
- And for Commonwealth Supported students, your:
- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Further information
- Texts
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Instructional Leadership Course Master of Education - Links to additional information
Faculty of Education: https://education.unimelb.edu.au/
- 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.
Please note Single Subject Studies via Community Access Program is not available to student visa holders or applicants
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
Last updated: 4 March 2025