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

    Photomedia Histories and Narratives
  • Unit Code

    PHO3125
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Duncan BARNES

Description

In this unit students evaluate creative and critical projects and theories credited as having defined the development of Photomedia’s practices, narratives and histories. Students will explore and extend these practices and theories in their own creative work.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse photomedia aesthetic practices and discourse (e.g. romantic, humanism, pictorialism, symbolism, constructivism, formalism, realism, feminism).
  2. Describe the work of principle photographers credited as having defined photomedia's histories.
  3. Compare and contrast the work of selected photographers.
  4. Critically analyse photomedia practices and discourses within an arts based framework.
  5. Integrate a range of concepts and theories in the analysis and production of photomedia.

Unit Content

  1. Critical perspectives, the language and writing of artist statements.
  2. The project of Alfred Stieglitz, the journal Camera Work and the New York based, Photo Secession group in raising the status of photography to that of art.
  3. Early 20th century photographic projects that signalled a shift from pictorialism; including Formalism, Constructivism, Surrealism and Bauhaus and Chicago School photography.
  4. The Beat movement, the concerns of the 1960s and Feminist projects of the 1980s.
  5. An appraisal of Australian and International discursive and contemporary art photomedia practices.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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
EssayCritical essay20%
ProjectProject 1 Creative work40%
ProjectProject 2 Creative work40%

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

    Photomedia Histories and Narratives
  • Unit Code

    PHO3125
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Duncan BARNES

Description

In this unit students evaluate creative and critical projects and theories credited as having defined the development of Photomedia’s practices, narratives and histories. Students will explore and extend these practices and theories in their own creative work.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse photomedia aesthetic practices and discourse (e.g. romantic, humanism, pictorialism, symbolism, constructivism, formalism, realism, feminism).
  2. Describe the work of principle photographers credited as having defined photomedia's histories.
  3. Compare and contrast the work of selected photographers.
  4. Critically analyse photomedia practices and discourses within an arts based framework.
  5. Integrate a range of concepts and theories in the analysis and production of photomedia.

Unit Content

  1. Critical perspectives, the language and writing of artist statements.
  2. The project of Alfred Stieglitz, the journal Camera Work and the New York based, Photo Secession group in raising the status of photography to that of art.
  3. Early 20th century photographic projects that signalled a shift from pictorialism; including Formalism, Constructivism, Surrealism and Bauhaus and Chicago School photography.
  4. The Beat movement, the concerns of the 1960s and Feminist projects of the 1980s.
  5. An appraisal of Australian and International discursive and contemporary art photomedia practices.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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
EssayCritical essay20%
ProjectProject 1 Creative work40%
ProjectProject 2 Creative work40%

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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