FINEARTS 235 Creative Careers: Making Exhibitions - Course Outlines

Course Prescription

Students will consider the types of roles and structures that exist in contemporary art worlds, with a focus on curatorial practice and exhibition making from the perspective of the artist. Engaging with the local art world, students will develop a critically informed exhibition proposal for a real-world context.

Course Overview

This course asks students to develop a plan for their own curatorial project. Students will engage with local artmaking significant to them. Using processes of research, they will be required to contextualise their project in terms of relevant history while also establishing its connection to existent or emergent threads of art practise and the cultures that enable its reception.

This will be achieved through the development of an exhibition and critical writing which supports it. Students will investigate and workshop their concepts within the class and then engage with artists or sources of creative content to achieve an outcome that is designed to respond to the interests of an audience specified by the student.

Students will consider the role of the curator, their interaction with makers and audiences, explore the potential for exhibition-making as a co-creative process while developing essential ancillary skills related to project development and management.

Course Requirements

Prerequisite: FINEARTS 101, 102, 103, 104, or FINEARTS 110, 113 and FINEARTS 111 or 112

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

Use skills and knowledge related to curating and art writing (Capability 1, 2 and 3)
Develop knowledge of the language, methods and processes artists and curators develop and use, as relevant to a students’ developing notion of their own practice (Capability 1 and 5)
Develop skills in articulating a critical position on a variety of practices, including curating and exhibition-making (Capability 1, 2 and 6)
Be able to communicate art ideas to communities and audiences (Capability 4)

Assessments

Assessment Type	Percentage	Classification
Conceptual Plan	20%	Individual Coursework
Exhibition Text	30%	Individual Coursework
Exhibition	50%	Group & Individual Coursework
3 types	100%

Assessment Type	Learning Outcome Addressed
	1	2	3	4
Conceptual Plan
Exhibition Text
Exhibition

Teaching & Learning Methods

This studio course uses Project Based Learning as a main teaching and learning method. Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex question, problem, or challenge. In this course, a studio project brief to create an exhibition through processes of conceptualisation, planning and delivery sets students on a process of discovery. Students are provided with a means to conduct their own learning and development and to respond in individual and diverse ways. Studio class activities include discussions with lecturers, guest input from the professional community and group feedback sessions. These activities assist students and staff to draw out meaning and value, and to co-evaluate the result of their investigations and final practical outcome. Assessment criteria provide a flexible framework for rewarding student learning.

Workload Expectations

This course is a standard 15 point course and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in each 15 point course that they are enrolled in.

For this course, you can expect 3 hours per week contact. This will include lectures (including 2 guest lectures), discussions, crits, and field trips within Auckland. Students are expected to spend 7 hours per week working independently on their assigned classwork, including reading assigned texts.

Delivery Mode

Campus Experience

Attendance is expected at scheduled activities including studios to complete components of the course.
Lectures will be available as recordings. Other learning activities including studios will not be available as recordings.
The course will not include live online events.
The activities for the course are scheduled as a standard weekly timetable.

Learning Resources

Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).

Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.

Students are expected to supply their own journals for technical notes and developmental drawings. Tools and equipment essential to instruction are provided. Beyond the point of initial instruction, students are expected to provide materials.

Health & Safety

Please refer to the Elam School of Fine Arts Health, Safety and Wellbeing guidelines that can be found in the Canvas page for this course in the files section.

Student Feedback

At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.

Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.

Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.

Academic Integrity

The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. This requirement also applies to sources on the internet. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against online source material using computerised detection mechanisms.

Class Representatives

Class representatives are students tasked with representing student issues to departments, faculties, and the wider university. If you have a complaint about this course, please contact your class rep who will know how to raise it in the right channels. See your departmental noticeboard for contact details for your class reps.

Inclusive Learning

All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.

Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website http://disability.auckland.ac.nz

Special Circumstances

If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.

If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.

This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.

Coursework must be submitted by the published deadline or it will receive the grade DNC (Did Not Complete). In some circumstances the student can apply for a Formal Extension of Time using the form on Canvas. The request must be supported by written evidence from a doctor or counsellor (or other relevant evidence) to support the extension request.

Requests for extensions of time must be submitted and approved before the due date of the assignment.

No extensions will be granted for problems such as clashing deadlines or accidentally erased computer files which should always be prevented by keeping backup copies.

Learning Continuity

In the event of an unexpected disruption we undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and your assessment is fair, and not compromised. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. You will be kept fully informed by your course co-ordinator, and if disruption occurs you should refer to the University Website for information about how to proceed.

Student Charter and Responsibilities

The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html.

Disclaimer

Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.

In this course students may be asked to submit coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. In exceptional circumstances changes to elements of this course may be necessary at short notice. Students enrolled in this course will be informed of any such changes and the reasons for them, as soon as possible, through Canvas.

Capability 1:	Disciplinary Knowledge and Practice
Capability 2:	Critical Thinking
Capability 3:	Solution Seeking
Capability 4:	Communication and Engagement
Capability 5:	Independence and Integrity
Capability 6:	Social and Environmental Responsibilities

FINEARTS 235 : Creative Careers: Making Exhibitions

Creative Arts and Industries

2022 Semester Two (1225) (15 POINTS)