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

    Landscape: Space and Place
  • Unit Code

    PHO3316
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Duncan BARNES

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.

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. Critical, cultural and historical perspectives on photographing landscape.
  2. Aesthetic considerations in historical and contemporary landscape photographic practice.
  3. The effects of tourism and technology on reshaping landscape.
  4. Contemporary approaches to photographing the landscape.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationTutorial Presentation10%
Case StudyLandscapes40%
Creative WorkLandscape Project50%

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

    Landscape: Space and Place
  • Unit Code

    PHO3316
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Duncan BARNES

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.

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. Critical, cultural and historical perspectives on photographing landscape.
  2. Aesthetic considerations in historical and contemporary landscape photographic practice.
  3. The effects of tourism and technology on reshaping landscape.
  4. Contemporary approaches to photographing the landscape.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationTutorial Presentation10%
Case StudyLandscapes40%
Creative WorkLandscape Project50%

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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