Qualification Overview
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Qualification Title | Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Practice | |||
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Qualification Type | Postgraduate Certificate | |||
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Level | 8 | |||
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Credits | 60 | |||
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Strategic Purpose Statement |
This qualification is designed for learners wishing to enhance their professional practice and career development in a collaborative multi-disciplinary learning environment. The qualification aims to meet the workplace demand of creative and cultural industries for professionals who can combine discipline specific expertise with the capacity to work collaboratively across disciplines. The qualification fosters the acquisition of additional creative and professional skills that will enhance the learners professional career.
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Graduate profile |
The Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Practice will produce graduates who have: an awareness of current and available scholarship, advanced knowledge and technologies relevant to their specialist field of enquiry or professional practice and the ability to remain current within their discipline; the ability to apply knowledge to new and existing situations and innovate their practice in order to contribute to and advance their respective industries; the ability to work productively across functional and/or disciplinary boundaries and within changing environments; the capacity for cross-cultural communication and multi-cultural inclusivity;
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Education pathways |
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Entry Requirements |
Applicants must have one of the following, or equivalent:
1. A recognized bachelor degree in the same or similar discipline , with merit achievement deemed to be an average grade of B- or higher in all Level 7 courses; OR 2. A professional qualification in a relevant discipline, recognized as being equivalent to merit achievement in a bachelor degree. English language requirements for international students: Applicants must have: * gained NCEA level 3 and met New Zealand university entrance requirements; or * clear evidence that they satisfy one of the criteria for existing English proficiency listed on NZQA's website at: here * achieved, within the preceding two years, at least one of the below: o Completion of either the NZCEL (Academic) (Level 5) An overall IELTS band score (Academic Format) of 6.5 with no band score lower than 6; o An overall TOEFL pBT (Paper-based Test) score of 590 (plus essay TWE of 5.5) OR an overall TOEFL iBT (Internet-based Test) score of 79 (plus writing score of 21); o First Certificate in English (FCE) with a pass at Grade A OR Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) with a score of 58 or higher OR Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) with a score of 45 or higher under the Cambridge International standard tests of English as a foreign language o Pearson Test of English PToE (Academic) with a score of 58 o City & Guilds Internal English for Speakers of Other Languages (IESOL) C1 Expert with a score of 42. |
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Education Organisation | Te Pukenga - New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology | |||
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Developed By | Te Pukenga - New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology | |||
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Quality Assured By | New Zealand Qualifications Authority | |||
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Number | 2589 | |||
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Status | Current | |||
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Created | 2014-09-12 15:44:15.0 | |||
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Next Review | 2019-09-12 00:00:00.0 | |||
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Content |
The Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Practice is a 60 credit programme comprising of level 8 elective courses. Students will choose the combination of elective courses that best suits their need. They may also choose to undertake a small practice based project. This allows students to determine their area of specialisation and specific learning objectives by choosing from a a range options and negotiating specific project areas from within the field of creative practice. The emphasis throughout is on creating a community of learners who are both self-directed and independent as well as collaborative and interdisciplinary. Learning takes place in theoretical, simulation, practice,
collaborative and experimental production/making, public display/presentation/ performance, practice based research, technical and self-directed settings |
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