Course Guide - Edith Cowan University

YEAR ONE - SEMESTER 2
ADM4100 International Arts Environment 15
ADM4105 Arts Finance 15
ADM4106 Arts Marketing 15
CMM4137 Project Preparation 15
YEAR TWO - SEMESTER 1
ADM4108 Contemporary Issues in Arts Management 20
ADM5122 Arts Project 1 20
ADM5123 Arts Project 2 20
· A Master of Arts in a discipline relevant to the proposed
research;
· An Honours degree (1st Class or 2A) in a discipline relevant to
the proposed research.
Consideration will also be given to applicants with other relevant
and equivalent degrees.
All candidates will be required to submit a portfolio of work and
attend an interview and/or audition (where appropriate).
COURSE LOCATION
This course is available on Mt Lawley Campus.
MODE OF STUDY
This course is available by Full-time, or Part-time mode.
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Course Code L12
The Doctor of Philosophy (Performing Arts) is a three-year fulltime
research program for students with substantial experience in
the arts industry/ profession. The course provides an opportunity
for original, highly accomplished practitioners, performers and
artists who aspire towards a more extensive research and creative
profile. The course is available in part-time mode in specific
circumstances. Although this is a discrete award relating to the
performing arts, opportunities will exist for cross-disciplinary
study through joint supervision of the research.
Candidates will be expected to self-initiate and develop research
through and about the practices of their chosen discipline to
produce original and interrogative works of art and/or original
approaches to performing arts' processes that will extend the
knowledge of their discipline/s. The complementary components
will normally include a performance, exhibition, event or an
embodiment of some form (as in pedagogical investigations) in
conjunction with an appropriate written record of their research,
detailing their reflective processes and artistic ideas in the context
of current professional knowledge. In many instances, the
research will involve inter-disciplinary elements that bear
conceptual implications when framed within performing arts'
contexts. Together, the critical practice and reflection constitute
the thesis which is expected to demonstrate the use of appropriate
methodologies of inquiry in the performing arts and incorporate
current theoretical understandings of the discipline/s involved.
MODE OF DELIVERY
This course is available in the following mode of delivery -
Campus-Based.
COURSE STRUCTURE
Studies proceed through a personal supervision format with
enrolment into an ongoing thesis unit each semester until such
time as the candidate submits the thesis for examination.
Doctoral candidates will normally complete no less than two years
and no more than four years of full time equivalent study by the
time their thesis is submitted for examination.
Each semester, students enrol into research thesis unit: DVA7200
at 50 or 100% of full time enrolment.
DVA7200 Doctor of Philosophy Thesis 0
Where the thesis involves live performance, exhibition and/or
events, the candidate is advised to pay attention to the
examination procedures before the required final submission of
the two integral components in a form of examinable
documentation appropriate to the research involved.
The Doctor of Philosophy (Performing Arts) is subject to
University-wide regulations pertaining to course duration, formal
proposal review and ethics clearance procedures and thesis
submission. Copies of the relevant documentation will be
provided to all candidates upon enrolment.
Specifically the course aims to:
• create opportunities for developing critical and creative
skills at an advanced level
• utilise the resources of the Academy to create
leadership opportunities for artists with extensive
professional experience to re-define or pursue
alternative lines of practical and/or theoretical inquiry
• provide the environment to experiment with crosscultural
or interdisciplinary forms that have the
potential to extend the knowledges of the performing
arts.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Applicants should meet at least one of the following entry criteria:
178 ECU Postgraduate Course Guide 2007