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C. Group project (20%)

 

The aim of the group project is to allow you to work collaboratively to explore further your interests in, and engagements with creative practices. The project will be presented as a web page, and you will receive instructions about constructing and mounting your webpage during the course.

 

The content and format of your group webpage is entirely up to you, but the page should have some logic of coherence and connection—a broad overarching theme or question. The page must contain a minimum of four ‘items’. These items can be individual or collaborative, and again, the form they take will depend on you; the only criterion is that they should in some way reflect on or engage with creative practices and their possibilities, and be informed by some of the broad questions the course raises. An item might be, for example: a review of or a mini-essay (c. 600 words if written; roughly 5 mins if presented as an audio file or video clip) on a creative practice (not necessarily a course text); extracts from an interview you conduct with a creative practitioner (no more than 1000 words if a written transcript, or 10 mins as an audio or video file); it can be a creative practice (visual, textual, auditory, multimedia) that engages, in its own way, with some of the broad questions that we raise during the course.  Not every member of your group need contribute an ‘item’; it is up to the group to decide how best to employ the diverse talents of its members – but all should contribute to the project on roughly equal terms. The finished webpage must be accompanied by a list of credits, outlining the individual responsibilities of the different members of your group. The webpage need not be especially elaborate or technologically sophisticated; what counts is the quality of the analysis/engagement/creative reflection and/or practice of its ‘items’.  

 

The project will be awarded a CAS mark out of 20. The project will be judged on the following criteria:

 

Critical and/or creative engagement with the texts/works/practices/questions items focus on

Ability to express ideas and/or offer reflective creative responses within prescribed formats

Ability to offer a broadly coherent set of responses, in its own way, to questions and topics raised during the course.

 

All students in your group will be given the same mark, unless it is clear to your tutor that someone has contributed little or nothing to the project, whereupon the appropriate penalty will be imposed. Each group will be given written feedback along with the CAS mark.

 

You will be randomly assigned to one of 5 project groups at the beginning of the course: when you log onto the course WebCT site and click on ‘Discussions’ in the left-hand menu, you will see that you can access “Discussion Group for Project X”, where X is the number of your group. Similarly, if you click on ‘Chat’, you will see “Chat Room – Group for Project X”. You will want to meet face-to-face at various points to prepare and discuss your project, but meanwhile there are Discussion forums and Chat rooms for each group on the WebCT site; for the Chat room you could try agreeing on a time to chat live.

 

 

The webpage must be completed and mounted by 5pm on Monday 26 April.   Three marks will be deducted for late completion/mounting of webpages/items (up to a week) without good reason. Projects/items mounted after this date will receive a NIL mark.