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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

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

    Images and Narratives

  • Unit Code

    PHO2201

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit interrogates theories of metaphor, myth, ritual and performance and their decisive relationships to contemporary photomedia production. Theories and practices are illustrated through case studies of the work of significant photomedia artists. This compelling unit aims to empower students of photography, with the facility to understand and realise the potential of photographic expression and communication.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from PHO2103

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PHO4201

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply key communication concepts in photomedia production.
  2. Appraise photo narrative production.
  3. Integrate a range of concepts and theories in the analysis of photo narrative production.
  4. Produce photo narrative texts incorporating a variety of styles and genres.

Unit Content

  1. Critical perspectives used in the analysis of photographs that aim to inform, describe and persuade.
  2. Ritual and myth and the modes of emplotment of tragedy, romance and satire and their relationships to photomedia production.
  3. The practices of selected photographers working in narrative genres of photomedia production including art, documenatary and photojournalism discourses.
  4. The relationships between photonarrative production and the tropes of metonym, metaphor and irony.
  5. Writing supportive documentation.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars. Workshops.

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
Creative WorkProject 140%
Creative WorkProject 260%

Text References

  • Rossenheim, J. (2000). Unclassified; A Walker Evans anthology: Selections from the Walker Evans archive. Zurich, Switzerland: Scalo.
  • Lardinois, B. (Ed.). (2007). Magnum magnum. London, United Kingdom: Thames and Hudson.
  • Greenough, S. (2009). Looking in: Robert Frank's the Americans. Gottingen, Germany: Steidl.
  • Frank, R. (2004). Story lines. (1st ed.). Gottingen, Germany: Steidl.
  • Aboitz, C., McCormack, M. & Pandisco, R. (Eds.). (2000). AutoWerke. Ostfildern, Deutschland: Hatje Cantz.
  • de Jong, C., Purvis, A., & Le Coultre, M. (Eds.). (2010). The poster. New York, NY: Arams.
  • Buell, H. (2006). Moments: The Pulitzer Prize - winning photographs. New York, NY: Tess Press.
  • Bowie, F. (2000). The anthropology of religion. Oxford, United Kingdom: Blackwell.
  • Diurden, M. (2006). Dorothea Lange. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon.

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.

PHO2201|1|1

Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

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

    Images and Narratives

  • Unit Code

    PHO2201

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit interrogates theories of metaphor, myth, ritual and performance and their decisive relationships to contemporary photomedia production. Theories and practices are illustrated through case studies of the work of significant photomedia artists. This compelling unit aims to empower students of photography, with the facility to understand and realise the potential of photographic expression and communication.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from PHO2103

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PHO4201

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply key communication concepts in photomedia production.
  2. Appraise photo narrative production.
  3. Integrate a range of concepts and theories in the analysis of photo narrative production.
  4. Produce photo narrative texts incorporating a variety of styles and genres.

Unit Content

  1. Critical perspectives used in the analysis of photographs that aim to inform, describe and persuade.
  2. Ritual and myth and the modes of emplotment of tragedy, romance and satire and their relationships to photomedia production.
  3. The practices of selected photographers working in narrative genres of photomedia production including art, documenatary and photojournalism discourses.
  4. The relationships between photonarrative production and the tropes of metonym, metaphor and irony.
  5. Writing supportive documentation.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars. Workshops.

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
Creative WorkProject 140%
Creative WorkProject 260%

Text References

  • Rossenheim, J. (2000). Unclassified; A Walker Evans anthology: Selections from the Walker Evans archive. Zurich, Switzerland: Scalo.
  • Lardinois, B. (Ed.). (2007). Magnum magnum. London, United Kingdom: Thames and Hudson.
  • Greenough, S. (2009). Looking in: Robert Frank's the Americans. Gottingen, Germany: Steidl.
  • Frank, R. (2004). Story lines. (1st ed.). Gottingen, Germany: Steidl.
  • Aboitz, C., McCormack, M. & Pandisco, R. (Eds.). (2000). AutoWerke. Ostfildern, Deutschland: Hatje Cantz.
  • de Jong, C., Purvis, A., & Le Coultre, M. (Eds.). (2010). The poster. New York, NY: Arams.
  • Buell, H. (2006). Moments: The Pulitzer Prize - winning photographs. New York, NY: Tess Press.
  • Bowie, F. (2000). The anthropology of religion. Oxford, United Kingdom: Blackwell.
  • Diurden, M. (2006). Dorothea Lange. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon.

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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