Part A: Course Overview

Program: C6180 Advanced Diploma of Professional Screenwriting

Course Title: Work professionally in the creative arts industry

Portfolio: Vocational Education

Nominal Hours: 70

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Important Information:

Please note that this course may have compulsory in-person attendance requirements for some teaching activities.

 

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
EMPL9793C	City Campus	TAFE	515T Creative Industries	Face-to-Face or Internet	Term2 2024, Term1 2025

Course Contact: Alan Woodruff

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4307

Course Contact Email: alan.woodruff@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This course will help you to market yourself as a screenwriting professional. You will research the wider screenwriting industry to source a work placement in an area that interests you (your placement may carried out at any time across the year, and may consist of one or a number of different placement opportunities). You will also learn the skills to sustain yourself and your writing projects.

 

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Enrolment in this core course at RMIT requires you to have completed all first year courses.

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	CUAIND611 Work professionally in the creative arts industry
Elements:	1. Implement strategies to find work 2. Respond to work opportunities 3. Show initiative in the work environment 4. Establish and maintain industry networks

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course, you will have developed a strategy to market yourself and your writing projects in order to arrange a placement, always with a view to enhancing your writing career prospects in the future.

Overview of Assessment

Assessment is ongoing throughout the course. Assessment will incorporate a range of methods to assess performance and the application of knowledge and skills and will include participation in class exercises, oral presentations and practical writing tasks. Full assessment briefs will be provided.