NM3001 - The Reflective Practitioner

Credit points:	03
Year:	2013
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Creative Arts

Available to all students

This subject provides opportunities for students to deepen their discipline knowledge and capacity for creativity by reflecting in a considered way on the processes of imagining, making, innovating, exhibiting and/or performing. Students will focus on developing and refining their ideas and testing new processes to enhance their creative practice and potential for a career in the creative industries. As well as the requirement to refine and produce new creative work, students will be provided with opportunities to reflect on their outputs over time and to consider ethical, environmental, social and other issues of relevance to them as a reflective creative practitioner.

Learning Outcomes

• an increasingly developed folio of creative work;
• the capacity to undertake considered and meaningful reflection as applied to creative practice and contexts;
• the ability to use written text as a vehicle for capturing and defining the artistic process.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
• The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams.

Prerequisites:	18CP OF LEVEL 1 SUBJECTS
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	NM2101

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 29-Aug-2013
Coord/Lect:	Professor Ryan Daniel.
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 26 hours practicals
Assessment:	creative work developed during practicals (50%); assignments (20%); reflective tasks (30%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2013
Coord/Lect:	Dr Robyn Glade-Wright.
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 26 hours practicals
Assessment:	creative work developed during practicals (50%); assignments (20%); reflective tasks (30%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.