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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

    International photojournalism and documentary photography

  • Unit Code

    PHO3320

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    30

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

Description

In this unit, students will engage with practices, issues and practicalities of working as a photojournalist in an international, cross cultural context. Students will work in collaboration with students of Pathshala: South Asian Media Institute, Dhaka Bangladesh in the research, production and presentation of stories related to Bangladeshi society and culture for distribution to local and international audiences.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Delivered in collaboration with, and at Pathshala: South Asian Media Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh during ECU Summer School period.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units from PHO2103, PHO2221

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PHO4320

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply ethical principles and cultural sensitivity when working with or representing photographic subjects.
  2. Evaluate photographic representations of Bangladesh as an imagined geography.
  3. Identify and research a range of social and cultural issues impacting on Bangladeshi society (e.g., global warming, poverty, housing, status of women, religion).
  4. Identify, plan, complete and present photojournalistic stories drawn from fieldwork to a standard suitable for international distribution and exhibition.

Unit Content

  1. Distribution and dissemination employing online resources and/or print exhibition (e.g., podcasts, blogs, online galleries).
  2. Hegemonic relationships between Western media and the Majority World in general, and Bangladesh in particular.
  3. Introduction to contemporary aspects of Bangladeshi society, geography and culture, with consideration of emerging impacts of economic development and climate change.
  4. Orientalism and the representation of others.
  5. Story and image production, editing and packaging.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Workshops, Fieldwork.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
WorkshopWorkshop Exercises20%
ProjectPhoto Project 80%

Text References

  • Van Schendel, W. (2009). A history of Bangladesh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Sontag, S. (2004). Regarding the pain of others. New York: Picador.
  • Schwartz, J. M., & Ryan, R. R. (Eds.). (2003). Picturing place: Photography and the geographical imagination. London: I. B. Tauris.
  • Said, E. W. (1979). Orientalism. London: Roughtledge & Kegan Paul.
  • Kobre, K. (2008). Photojournalism: The professionals' approach. (6th ed.). New York: Focal Press.
  • Moeller, S. D. (1999). Compassion fatigue: How the media sell disease, famine, war and death. New York: Routledge.
  • Dean, H. (1999). Broken bangles. New York: Anchor Press.
  • Leslie, N. (2011). Mula fhiree jawa (back to the root): Photojournalism and documentary photography in Bangladesh. In B. Shoesmith, J. Genilo, & Md Assiuzzaman (Eds.). Bangladesh's changing mediascape. London: Intellect.
  • Newton, J. H. (2001). The burden of visual truth: The role of photojournalism in mediating reality. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Journal References

  • Islam, N., & Sultana, N. (2006). The status of women in Bangladesh: Is the situation really encouraging? Research Journal of Social Sciences. 1(1), 56-65.
  • Wright, D. (2000). Industrialisation and the changing role of women in Bangladesh. Asian Studies Review, 24(2), 231-242.
  • Brastard, H. (1997). The politics of stereotyping: Western images of Islam. Manushi. (98), 6-16.
  • Alam, S. (2007). The gallery versus the street: An exercise in engagement. South Asian Popular Culture, 5(1), 45-57.

Website References

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

    International photojournalism and documentary photography

  • Unit Code

    PHO3320

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    30

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

In this unit, students will engage with practices, issues and practicalities of working as a photojournalist in an international, cross cultural context. Students will work in collaboration with students of Pathshala: South Asian Media Institute, Dhaka Bangladesh in the research, production and presentation of stories related to Bangladeshi society and culture for distribution to local and international audiences.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Delivered in collaboration with, and at Pathshala: South Asian Media Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh during ECU Summer School period.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units from PHO2103, PHO2221

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PHO4320

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply ethical principles and cultural sensitivity when working with or representing photographic subjects.
  2. Evaluate photographic representations of Bangladesh as an imagined geography.
  3. Identify and research a range of social and cultural issues impacting on Bangladeshi society (e.g., global warming, poverty, housing, status of women, religion).
  4. Identify, plan, complete and present photojournalistic stories drawn from fieldwork to a standard suitable for international distribution and exhibition.

Unit Content

  1. Distribution and dissemination employing online resources and/or print exhibition (e.g., podcasts, blogs, online galleries).
  2. Hegemonic relationships between Western media and the Majority World in general, and Bangladesh in particular.
  3. Introduction to contemporary aspects of Bangladeshi society, geography and culture, with consideration of emerging impacts of economic development and climate change.
  4. Orientalism and the representation of others.
  5. Story and image production, editing and packaging.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Workshops, Fieldwork.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
WorkshopWorkshop Exercises20%
ProjectPhoto Project 80%

Text References

  • Leslie, N. (2011). Mula fhiree jawa (back to the root): Photojournalism and documentary photography in Bangladesh. In B. Shoesmith, J. Genilo, & Md Assiuzzaman (Eds.). Bangladesh's changing mediascape. London: Intellect.
  • Kobre, K. (2008). Photojournalism: The professionals' approach. (6th ed.). New York: Focal Press.
  • Moeller, S. D. (1999). Compassion fatigue: How the media sell disease, famine, war and death. New York: Routledge.
  • Dean, H. (1999). Broken bangles. New York: Anchor Press.
  • Newton, J. H. (2001). The burden of visual truth: The role of photojournalism in mediating reality. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Sontag, S. (2004). Regarding the pain of others. New York: Picador.
  • Schwartz, J. M., & Ryan, R. R. (Eds.). (2003). Picturing place: Photography and the geographical imagination. London: I. B. Tauris.
  • Said, E. W. (1979). Orientalism. London: Roughtledge & Kegan Paul.
  • Van Schendel, W. (2009). A history of Bangladesh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Journal References

  • Alam, S. (2007). The gallery versus the street: An exercise in engagement. South Asian Popular Culture, 5(1), 45-57.
  • Brastard, H. (1997). The politics of stereotyping: Western images of Islam. Manushi. (98), 6-16.
  • Wright, D. (2000). Industrialisation and the changing role of women in Bangladesh. Asian Studies Review, 24(2), 231-242.
  • Islam, N., & Sultana, N. (2006). The status of women in Bangladesh: Is the situation really encouraging? Research Journal of Social Sciences. 1(1), 56-65.

Website References

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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