Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Arts and Humanities

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• Unit Title

  Identity and Culture

• Unit Code

  CCA2150

• Year

  2016

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  1

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

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Description

This unit examines the ways in which identity, culture and the environment impact upon the creative individual and cultural context. Contemporary debates regarding institutional practices and the reflexive practitioner will be examined, and students will be introduced to theoretical, philosophical and creative models that will enable them to critically locate their identity, lifeworld and subsequent creative practice.

Equivalent Rule

Replaces VIS3503

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Define key terms associated with theories of identity and culture.
2. Analyse contemporary debates surrounding the social and creative production of the individual.
3. Discuss contemporary theories that explain how identity and the lifeworld impact upon the creative individual, including debates on the body.
4. Discuss methodologies and strategies derived from theories of reflexivity used in creative production.

Unit Content

1. Definitions of identity, body, lifeworld, culture, reflexivity, aesthetics, post-colonialism, cultural hybridity, third space, phenomenology, becoming, embodiment, virtuality.
2. Institutional and cultural conditions and the production and consumption of culture.
3. Institutions and the formation of identity.
4. The lifeworld and systemic colonisation.
5. Theories of reflexivity and creative production.
6. 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.

Text References

• Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (2006). The post-colonial studies reader. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Barrett, E., & Bolt, B. (2009). Practice as research: Approaches to creative arts enquiry. New York, NY: L.H. Tauris.
• Bhabha, H. (1994). The location of culture. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
• Bourriaud, N. (1998). Relational aesthetics. France: Les presses du reel.
• Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (2004). A thousand plateaus. London, United Kingdom: Continuum.
• Evans, A. (2001). This virtual life: Escapism and simulation in our media world. London, United Kingdom: Fusion Press.
• Gauntlett, D. (2008). Media, Gender and Identity. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Giddens, A. (1991). Modernity and self-identity: Self and society in the late modern age. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• Grodin, D., & Lindhof, T. (1996). Constructing the self in a mediated world. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Habermas, J. (1987). The theory of communicative action, volume 2: Lifeworld and system: A critique of functionalist reason. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
• Merleau-Ponty, M. (2002). Phenomenology of perception. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Munster, A. (2006). Materializing new media: Embodiment and information aesthetics. London, United Kingdom: University Press of New England.
• Papastergiadis, N. (2004). Complex entanglements: Art, globalisation and cultural difference. New York, NY: Rivers Oram Press.

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