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

    Modernism
  • Unit Code

    CCC2106
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Donna Jean MAZZA

Description

This unit explores the impact of the rapid social and technological changes of modernisation on the creative arts, including art, design, architecture, theatre, literature, photography and film. It also considers historic arts movements, such as expressionism and surrealism, and their link to human experience of the events of this time, their cross disciplinary impact and their translation into cultural production through to the present day.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed 60CP to enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CCC3104, CCI1104, CCC2105

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify the key arts movements and styles and link them to forms of cultural production.
  2. Critically analyse the ways in which cultural artefacts, such as the art, film and poetry of the period, are a product of their time and how they have contributed to contemporary cultural production.
  3. Apply appropriate analytical and critical techniques, and theoretical models, to the arts practices of this period.
  4. Integrate understanding of historic events with the changes to cultural production and the arts.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to key terms associated with modernism and the artistic production of the time.
  2. Introduction to the historic and cultural context of modernism and its relationship to contemporary arts and cultural practices.
  3. Investigation of arts movements and styles associated with modernism and critical study of some specific works in each of these.
  4. Application of key themes to modernist texts drawn from genres such as art, design, architecture, theatre, literature, photography and film.
  5. Production of creative works utilising the theories and manifestos of historic figures and movements of modernism through workshop activities.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials and audio-visual presentations.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyResearch paper on selected theme, movement or individual and presentation40%
ProjectResearch essay or creative project50%
ParticipationTutorial participation10%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyResearch paper on selected theme, movement or individual with discussion 40%
ProjectResearch essay or creative project50%
ParticipationTutorial participation10%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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

    Modernism
  • Unit Code

    CCC2106
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Donna Jean MAZZA

Description

This unit explores the impact of the rapid social and technological changes of modernisation on the creative arts, including art, design, architecture, theatre, literature, photography and film. It also considers historic arts movements, such as expressionism and surrealism, and their link to human experience of the events of this time, their cross disciplinary impact and their translation into cultural production through to the present day.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed 60CP to enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CCC3104, CCI1104, CCC2105

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify the key arts movements and styles and link them to forms of cultural production.
  2. Critically analyse the ways in which cultural artefacts, such as the art, film and poetry of the period, are a product of their time and how they have contributed to contemporary cultural production.
  3. Apply appropriate analytical and critical techniques, and theoretical models, to the arts practices of this period.
  4. Integrate understanding of historic events with the changes to cultural production and the arts.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to key terms associated with modernism and the artistic production of the time.
  2. Introduction to the historic and cultural context of modernism and its relationship to contemporary arts and cultural practices.
  3. Investigation of arts movements and styles associated with modernism and critical study of some specific works in each of these.
  4. Application of key themes to modernist texts drawn from genres such as art, design, architecture, theatre, literature, photography and film.
  5. Production of creative works utilising the theories and manifestos of historic figures and movements of modernism through workshop activities.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials and audio-visual presentations.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyResearch paper on selected theme, movement or individual and presentation40%
ProjectResearch essay or creative project50%
ParticipationTutorial participation10%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyResearch paper on selected theme, movement or individual with discussion 40%
ProjectResearch essay or creative project50%
ParticipationTutorial participation10%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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