Breadth Subjects - Year Level 3
Engaging youth: art/media/performance
Investigate the professional and community provision of cultural performance and artistic product for children and adolescent in the age of the ‘digital native’. A practical arts-based presentation for a specific youth audience will comprise 50 per cent of the assessment.
Creativity, arts practice and community
Examine links between creativity and arts practice in adult communities, through workshops seminars and field work. Assessment will take you into arts settings for observation and analysis.
Creativity and knowledge enhancement
Develop your understanding of the processes involved in knowledge enhancement and transfer in the context of your own tertiary studies and realise your ability as a ’knowledge enhancer’.
Note: this subject requires successful completion of ‘Knowledge, learning and culture’
Childhood, youth and popular culture
This subject explores how children and young people construct and reconstruct their sense of self against the backdrop of popular culture, which is such a crucial arena for both social control and for exploring the possibility of social transformation
Ethics, gender and the family
Towards the end of the 20th century, feminist thinkers challenged the view that the family is a private domain. Examine the growing tradition of using alternative perspectives, such as gender and childhood studies, to understand the family as a site of contestation over the rights and responsibilities of its members.