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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

    Identity and Culture

  • Unit Code

    CCA2150

  • Year

    2018

  • 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 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.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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

    Identity and Culture

  • Unit Code

    CCA2150

  • Year

    2018

  • 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 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.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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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