Course Guide - Edith Cowan University

DEV4104
15 Credit Points
Trade Shows, Product Launches and Corporate Events
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
This unit examines the processes and procedures of designing for
Trade Shows, Product Launches and Commercial Displays and
Events. The commercial nature of these design briefs will be
studied and strategic planning models will be employed to assist
in the process and evaluation of the design project. The unit also
addresses the role of conference staging and production
management and investigates strategies required in these areas.
DEV4105
15 Credit Points
Collections, Curating and Display
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
Students study the relationships between collections, ideas,
knowledge, curatorial processes and display space as related to
understanding human culture. Design principles are developed
through assigned projects within this genre. Research techniques
are employed to complement the curatorial process and project
management strategies are applied to develop a strategic planning
model for this project. Venues, display units, lighting, graphic
communication, public interaction, budgets, time lines,
management processes and evaluation techniques will be studied.
DEV4106
15 Credit Points
Public Display Design
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
This unit will undertake a study of the conditions and influences
leading to the development of contemporary museum and gallery
interiors and will analyse traditional and contemporary display
design. Displays must act as a bridge between the experience and
research of the specialist and the life experiences of the viewer.
The aim is to find the story behind the object so that the visitor
does not feel excluded. Students will examine the roles of
communication, media and technology in creating experiential
and educational displays. Design issues critical to exhibition work
will be covered as well as issues of lighting, controlled
atmosphere, security and risk management, display devices and
units will be studied.
DMT5102
20 Credit Points
Introduction to Creative Arts Therapy
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
Prerequisite :
ART5180 Introduction to Art Therapy
This unit introduces the student to creative arts’ therapies using
alternative modalities to Visual Art such as Drama, Music, Dance
and Movement. It will provide scope for the student to explore a
variety of approaches and techniques, which demonstrate areas of
difference and similarity between art therapy and other arts’
therapies. During the course of the unit, the student will learn how
some of these areas might be usefully adapted to a more
integrated use of creative arts’ modalities within a therapeutic
framework.
DMT5151
30 Credit Points
Module 1
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
This module provides an experiential basis for the development
of the role of drama therapist. Students take part in a training
group which demonstrates the process and progression of a drama
therapy session from the establishment of a playful, creative
environment to the development of indepth personal and
interpersonal work. Throughout the module students work with
key drama therapy concepts, including improvisation, role-play,
role theory and projective techniques. Students are introduced to
the theory and practice of psychodrama and sociometry, Moreno’s
action based methods. Image seminars provide the opportunity for
students to respond to a range of images and in so doing become
conversant with the ways in which images (objects, music,
gestures, poetry etc) relate to stories and how these in turn can
generate images. Through lectures and reading students will
become conversant with the historical, philosophical and cultural
background to contemporary arts therapies practice.
DMT5152
30 Credit Points
Module 2
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
Prerequisite :
DMT5151 Module 1
The work in this unit stresses the unique role of art, images and
enactment in psychotherapeutic work. Artists and performers
present their work to the students. Through interactive reflection,
students grapple with the theories of artistic creation and different
cultural accounts of creativity, and begin to make sense of these
issues within their growing understanding of therapeutic work.
Students begin preparation for the various situations in which
their placements and future work might occur. Through lectures
by visiting practitioners students become familiar with some of
the relevant models and schools of thought used in various
therapeutic, educational and community settings. It is designed to
help students understand the practices and termnologies they
might encounter in some of the settings where they will do their
placements during training and possibly seek employment after
qualification. Students are introduced to models of assessment and
processes of referral. Lectures include models of understanding
systems and social contexts. Ethics and other issues of
professional practice are introduced.
DMT5153
30 Credit Points
Module 3
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
Prerequisite :
DMT5151 Module 1
Students refine and develop their work as they continue with their
training group. Students use roles from dramatic fiction to develop
their understand of patterns of human behaviour, and practice the
processes of finding metaphors, through props, masks and
enactments, that explicate psychotherapeutic models of
understanding human behaviour. Throughout the sessions students
have opportunities for modelling from the group leader, and
practising their developing skills with one another. Students create
autobiographical performances and reflect on the inherent
processes. Students are introduced to the theory and practice of
Theatre of the Oppressed. Drama therapy is a predominantly
group based modality, and students learn theories of group
processes, learn to focus attention on members of a group, as well
as the group as a whole and develop their role as a therapeutic
group leader. Leading local exponents of relevant models and
schools of psychotherapeutic understanding (Psychodynamic,
Narrative, Jungian, Gestalt, Cognitive, Behavioural, etc) lecture
on theory, and provide skill based practice. Image seminars
continue in this unit.
DMT5154
30 Credit Points
Module 4
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
The module also serves as an introduction to research, particularly
the kinds of research methodology most suited to the specific
kinds of phenomena arising in drama therapy, and assists students
in developing ideas for their 8,000 to 10,000 word Project. This
will be on a topic of each student’s choice and will embody
elements of research. It will also help students in the writing of
their Case Studies. Students attend seminars presented by students
in their final semester of the MA programme in which they
present their project or case work. It is in this module that students
will discuss possible placement situations with their tutor and
other staff and possibly make some preliminary observational
visits to placement situations.
DMT6155
60 Credit Points
Module 5
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
Prerequisite :
DMT5154 Module 4
All students commence their placement, and prepare for the
second of their two major writing assignments, the Case Study of
8,000 to 10,000 words. Its purpose is to examine and
communicate a student’s work on placements in depth and can
concern one or more individuals, or a group. It will be in a similar
format to Project Research and addresses some of the same issues,
218 ECU Postgraduate Course Guide 2007