CART 7014 Research Methods in the Creative Arts
Credit Points 20
Legacy Code 102375
Coordinator Clare Maclean Opens in new window
Description This unit investigates conceptual and theoretical models used in Creative Arts Research. It introduces students to a variety of important methodologies, including empiricism, experimentation, practice-based research, performativity-as-method, and narrative inquiry. It will also focus on writing as a creative praxis that has an important relationship to all the creative arts. Methodologies will be explored through the analysis of various theoretical and conceptual models that are applied in and produced through creative work. The unit will include a variety of strategies for analysing and documenting creative work, including observation, participation, reflection and representation. It will also examine the divisions between theory and practice, asking whether theory is in itself a practice that empiricism describes. It will look at the conditions under which creative arts research is produced, exploring its meanings, effects and affects.
School Humanities & Comm Arts
Discipline Creative Arts, Not Elsewhere Classified.
Student Contribution Band HECS Band 2 20cp
Level Postgraduate Coursework Level 7 subject
Assumed Knowledge
Successful completion of undergraduate degree and formal acceptance into the Master of Arts (Creative Arts).
Assessment
The following table summarises the standard assessment tasks for this subject. Please note this is a guide only. Assessment tasks are regularly updated, where there is a difference your Learning Guide takes precedence.
Item | Length | Percent | Threshold | Individual/Group Task |
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Case study of creative work | 2,000 words | 30 | N | Individual |
Oral presentation | 1,000 words | 30 | N | Individual |
Essay | 3,000 words | 40 | N | Individual |
Prescribed Texts
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Teaching Periods