School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Beyond Modernity
  • Unit Code

    CCA2100
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Nicola KAYE

Description

This unit examines the conditions that face the creative practitioner in a globalised cultural economy. Students will be introduced to debates surrounding modernity, commodity culture, spectacle, postmodernity and digital/virtual culture to examine how these relate to a contemporary cosmopolitan culture in which the local and global relationships of the twenty-first century are being altered. Students will be introduced to creative strategies and methodologies such as reflexivity in relating to these debates.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Define key terms associated with modernity, post-modernity, spectacle, globalisation, cosmopolitanism and digital/virtual culture.
  2. Analyse contemporary debates, which are dynamic in shaping cultural, social and political identity and personal creativity.
  3. Discuss aesthetics, praxis and communicative actions as meaning-making tools to understand one's lifeworld through creative practice.
  4. Discuss contemporary theories that explain the impact of globalisation and cosmopolitanism on the creative individual.

Unit Content

  1. Definitions of aesthetics, communicative action and praxis.
  2. Tradition, modernity, commodity culture, spectacle, postmodernity, globalisation, cosmopolitanism and digital/virtual culture.
  3. Institutional and cultural conditions and the production and consumption of contemporary culture.
  4. Research strategies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
JournalJournal of tutorial texts30%
Annotated Bibliography A summary of the essay and an annotated bibliography of texts used for the essay 20%
EssayIndividual analysis of group processes50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Beyond Modernity
  • Unit Code

    CCA2100
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Nicola KAYE

Description

This unit examines the conditions that face the creative practitioner in a globalised cultural economy. Students will be introduced to debates surrounding modernity, commodity culture, spectacle, postmodernity and digital/virtual culture to examine how these relate to a contemporary cosmopolitan culture in which the local and global relationships of the twenty-first century are being altered. Students will be introduced to creative strategies and methodologies such as reflexivity in relating to these debates.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Define key terms associated with modernity, post-modernity, spectacle, globalisation, cosmopolitanism and digital/virtual culture.
  2. Analyse contemporary debates, which are dynamic in shaping cultural, social and political identity and personal creativity.
  3. Discuss aesthetics, praxis and communicative actions as meaning-making tools to understand one's lifeworld through creative practice.
  4. Discuss contemporary theories that explain the impact of globalisation and cosmopolitanism on the creative individual.

Unit Content

  1. Definitions of aesthetics, communicative action and praxis.
  2. Tradition, modernity, commodity culture, spectacle, postmodernity, globalisation, cosmopolitanism and digital/virtual culture.
  3. Institutional and cultural conditions and the production and consumption of contemporary culture.
  4. Research strategies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
JournalJournal of tutorial texts30%
Annotated Bibliography A summary of the essay and an annotated bibliography of texts used for the essay 20%
EssayIndividual analysis of group processes50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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