Murdoch University: Units

Learning through the Arts (EDU260)
Points:	4
Enrolment Options:	Murdoch: S1-internal, S1-external, SB6-internal Rockingham: S1-internal [see Teaching Periods and Census Dates]
Description:	Focuses on how the arts shape and express experience and their potential for learning. Consider the arts as ways of knowing and making meaning. Explore how the arts, creativity and culture help us know what it means to be human, focusing on your own play and story, creativity, imagination, transformation, improvisation and aesthetic understanding. Develop arts literacy and your capacity to engage with, reflect on and make informed judgements about the arts.
Contact time:	Internal: Lectures: 1 hour per week; workshops: 3 hours per week. External: Lectopia lectures 1 hour per week plus a self-devised study program equivalent to 3 hours per week. All students will need to access Lectopia and LMS during this unit, to submit work electronically and create digital portfolios/assignments. Students enrolled in the SB6 summer offering are required to complete an on-campus component. Dates to be advised on the School of Education web site.
Prerequisites:	Nil. Co-requisite: Internet access if studying externally.
Exclusions:	Students who have successfully completed E360/EDU3601 Learning Through the Arts (4 points/2 points) during 2002-2004 may not enrol in this unit for credit.
Notes:	External mode students are required to complete practical arts-based projects and portfolios. Internal mode students are required to complete practical arts-based performance projects.
Used in these Courses:	Education (BEd) [Early Childhood and Primary Teaching] (Four Years) Education (BEd) [Primary Teaching] (Four Years) Education (BEd) [Primary Teaching] (Four Years) + Australian Indigenous Studies (BA) Education (BEd) [Primary, 1-10 Health and Physical Education] Education (BEd) [Secondary Teaching] (Four Years) Education (Graduate) (BEd) [Secondary Teaching] (Two Years) Graduate Diploma in Education (Secondary) Graduate Diploma in Education Studies

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Handbook 2010

Unit: Learning through the Arts

Learning through the Arts (EDU260)