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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

    Landscape: Space and Place

  • Unit Code

    PHO3316

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit examines relationships between landscape, photography and art and the way these historical relationships are acted out in current anxieties about global industrial expansion and climate change. Students will explore the role of photography in the production of landscapes (e.g., natural, industrial, urban, virtual) through critical analysis and their own visual production.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from PHO2202

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PHO4316

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse contemporary landscape practices in photography.
  2. Create images that demonstrate critical engagement with concepts of landscape in contemporary photographic practice.
  3. Discuss the role of landscape in Western art and culture.
  4. Examine the cultural practices by which land becomes landscape.

Unit Content

  1. Aesthetic traditions of landscape.
  2. Landscape and postmodernity.
  3. Landscape photography as pornography.
  4. Landscape photography practice.
  5. Myths of Australian landscape.
  6. Psychogeography.
  7. Suburbia, wastelands and anxious landscapes.
  8. Tourism and landscape.
  9. Utopic landscapes.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, 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
PresentationTutorial Presentation10%
EssayCase study40%
Creative WorkLandscape Project50%

Text References

  • ^ Extracts will be provided.
  • Giblett, R. (2004). Living with the earth: Mastery to mutuality. Cambridge: Salt.
  • Parr, M. (1995). A small world. Stockport: Dewi Lewis.
  • Adams, A. (1977). The portfolios of Ansel Adams. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
  • Auge, M. (1995). Non-places: An introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity. London: Verso.
  • Baltz, L. (1980). Park City. Albuquerque: Artspace Press.
  • Berman, M. (1982) All that is solid melts into air. London: Verso.
  • Burtynsky, E. (2003). Manufactured landscapes. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada.
  • Wilson, A. (1991). The culture of nature: North American landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez. Toronto: Between the Lines.
  • Seddon, G. (1997). Landprints: Reflections on place and landscape. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • MacCannell, D. (1976). The tourist: A new theory of the leisure class. London: Macmillan.
  • Edensor, T. (2005). Industrial ruins: Space, aesthetics, materiality. Oxford: Berg.
  • De Botton, A. (2002). The art of travel. London: Hamish Hamilton.

Journal References

  • Continuum
  • Photofile
  • Aperture
  • Blind Spot
  • Topos
  • Landscape Research

^ Mandatory reference

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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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

    Landscape: Space and Place

  • Unit Code

    PHO3316

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit examines relationships between landscape, photography and art and the way these historical relationships are acted out in current anxieties about global industrial expansion and climate change. Students will explore the role of photography in the production of landscapes (e.g., natural, industrial, urban, virtual) through critical analysis and their own visual production.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from PHO2202

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PHO4316

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse contemporary landscape practices in photography.
  2. Create images that demonstrate critical engagement with concepts of landscape in contemporary photographic practice.
  3. Discuss the role of landscape in Western art and culture.
  4. Examine the cultural practices by which land becomes landscape.

Unit Content

  1. Aesthetic traditions of landscape.
  2. Landscape and postmodernity.
  3. Landscape photography as pornography.
  4. Landscape photography practice.
  5. Myths of Australian landscape.
  6. Psychogeography.
  7. Suburbia, wastelands and anxious landscapes.
  8. Tourism and landscape.
  9. Utopic landscapes.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, 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
PresentationTutorial Presentation10%
EssayCase study40%
Creative WorkLandscape Project50%

Text References

  • ^ Extracts will be provided.
  • MacCannell, D. (1976). The tourist: A new theory of the leisure class. London: Macmillan.
  • Adams, A. (1977). The portfolios of Ansel Adams. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
  • Auge, M. (1995). Non-places: An introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity. London: Verso.
  • Baltz, L. (1980). Park City. Albuquerque: Artspace Press.
  • Berman, M. (1982) All that is solid melts into air. London: Verso.
  • Burtynsky, E. (2003). Manufactured landscapes. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada.
  • Wilson, A. (1991). The culture of nature: North American landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez. Toronto: Between the Lines.
  • Seddon, G. (1997). Landprints: Reflections on place and landscape. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Parr, M. (1995). A small world. Stockport: Dewi Lewis.
  • Giblett, R. (2004). Living with the earth: Mastery to mutuality. Cambridge: Salt.
  • Edensor, T. (2005). Industrial ruins: Space, aesthetics, materiality. Oxford: Berg.
  • De Botton, A. (2002). The art of travel. London: Hamish Hamilton.

Journal References

  • Continuum
  • Photofile
  • Aperture
  • Blind Spot
  • Topos
  • Landscape Research

^ Mandatory reference

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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