Master of Arts Practice

What is this course about?

The aim of this course is to afford the student the opportunity to direct their studies to a focused area for investigation and resolution, to critically analyse and reflect on their creative practice and research investigation in national and international contexts.

The Master of Arts Practice - with specialisations, replaces the Master of Visual and Performing Art, and may be undertaken full-time over one year, or part-time over two years; either by distance education, on campus or in mixed mode, i.e. the first year on campus and the second year by distance education, or vice versa.

The following specialisations are available:

• Master of Arts Practice (Acting) MAPrac(Acting)
• Master of Arts Practice (Advertising) MAPrac(Advert)
• Master of Arts Practice (Circus and Physical Theatre) MAPrac(Circus&PhysTheatre)
• Master of Arts Practice (Communication Design)MAPrac(CommDsgn)
• Master of Arts Practice (Costume Design) MAPrac(CostumeDsgn)
• Master of Arts Practice (Cultural Event Management) MAPrac(CultEventMgt)
• Master of Arts Practice (Directing for Stage) MAPrac(Directing for Stage)
• Master of Arts Practice (Drama and Theatre for Young People) MAPrac(Drama&TheatreYoungPeople)
• Master of Arts Practice (Electronic Arts) MAPrac(ElectArts)
• Master of Arts Practice (Illustration and Drawing) MAPrac(Illstrtn&Drwng)
• Master of Arts Practice (Image, Sound and Text) MAPrac(ImageSnd&Text)
• Master of Arts Practice (Installation Art) MAPrac(InstallationArt)
• Master of Arts Practice (Jewellery Design and Production) MAPrac(JewelleryDsgn&Prod)
• Master of Arts Practice (Lighting Design) MAPrac(LightingDsgn)
• Master of Arts Practice (Online Writing) MAPrac(OnlineWrtg)
• Master of Arts Practice (Performance) MAPrac(Perf)
• Master of Arts Practice (Photomedia) MAPrac(Photom)
• Master of Arts Practice (Publication Design) MAPrac(PublnDsgn)
• Master of Arts Practice (Scriptwriting) MAPrac(Scriptwriting)
• Master of Arts Practice (Set Design) MAPrac(SetDsgn)
• Master of Arts Practice (Sound Production and Design) MAPrac(SndProdn&Dsgn)
• Master of Arts Practice (Stage/Production Management) MAPrac(Stage/ProdnMgt)
• Master of Arts Practice (Television and Screen Direction) MAPrac(TV&ScreenDir)
• Master of Arts Practice (Television Post Production) MAPrac(TVPostProd)
• Master of Arts Practice (Typography) MAPrac(Typog)
• Master of Arts Practice (Visual Arts) MAPrac(VisArts)
• Master of Arts Practice (Visual Effects)MAPrac(VisEffects)

It is a Commonwealth supported course which provides students the opportunity to undertake a supervised creative practice-based project in either; fine arts, performance, photography, theatre, television, sound, text, hybrid arts or new media, or any other creative discipline, which can be exhibited, published, produced, performed or presented; and a writing project, as part of which the student carries out contextual research in creative practices and critical reflection on the practice based project.

The specialisation with which the student graduates is dependent on the nature of the project.

Students may commence in either session.

Professionals teaching you

Students of the course are supervised and guided by lecturers from the School of Communication and Creative Industries experienced in their field.

Academic expectations

For each 8 point subject at CSU, students should normally expect to spend between 140-160 hours engaged in the specified learning and assessment activities (such as attending lectures or residential schools, assigned readings, tutorial assistance, individual or group research/study, forum activity, workplace learning, assignments or examinations). The student workload for some subjects may vary from these norms as a result of approved course design.

Students will be assessed on the basis of completed assignments, examinations, workplace learning, or other methods as outlined in specific subject outlines.

Where applicable, students are responsible for travel and accommodation costs involved in workplace learning experiences, or attending residential schools (distance education students).

Expectations relating to academic, workplace learning, time and cost requirements for specific subjects are provided in the subject abstracts and in course materials.

Admission requirements

Successful completion of an undergraduate award, with not less than 50% of core discipline studies in the final year of the award. Applicants who have not completed an undergraduate award but who have equivalent professional experience will be considered on an individual basis.

Applicants for entry into this course are required to submit a Master's project proposal and visual and/or other evidence to support the application.

Applicants must submit details of the infrastructure and resources required to successfully complete the project, and if studying by distance of their ability to access these resources.

English language proficiency

The University has minimum requirements for English language proficiency prior to entry to our courses. Some courses also have a requirement for a higher entry or exit level of English proficiency. More information on English language requirements.

Internet access

CSU places great emphasis on services to its students. It is a leader in the provision of online services and, in particular, the use of the internet in the support of teaching, administration and communications with students.

The online environment is so integrated into all aspects of student life and the learning experience at CSU that the University now assumes that all on campus and distance education students at CSU will have ongoing access to an internet connected computer capable of communicating with CSU online systems.

Students enrolled in Information Technology subjects (i.e. with an ITC subject code) may be required to have additional hardware and/or software that is deemed essential for the completion of the learning activities in that subject.

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This course is available to commence study in

Session 1; Session 2