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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    International photojournalism and documentary photography
  • Unit Code

    PHO3320
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Duncan BARNES

Description

In this unit, students will engage with practices, issues and practicalities of working as a photojournalist in an international, cross cultural context. This unit is an outbound study tour program. Students will work in collaboration with an overseas institution in the Asia Pacific region to research, produce and present stories to local and international audiences.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Delivered in collaboration with an overseas institution in the Asia Pacific region during ECU Summer School period.

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. Produce photojournalistic stories drawn from fieldwork to a standard suitable for international distribution and exhibition.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to contemporary aspects of Asian society, geography and culture.
  2. Orientalism and the representation of others.
  3. Hegemonic relationships between Western media and the Majority World.
  4. Story and image production, editing and packaging.
  5. Distribution and dissemination employing online resources and/or print exhibition (e.g., mixed media, blogs, galleries).

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars are used in this unit that helps foster both peer-to-peer learning and a learner-centered approach. Seminar times vary from a few hours to an entire day as well as incorporating hands-on workshops run in conjunction with international photojournalists. Since International Photojournalism is taught as an international outbound study tour experience, students should expect that they might work unconventional hours compared to the structured times of onshore oncampus study.

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
AssignmentWorkshop Project40%
ProjectProject Part A Project Proposal 10%
ProjectProject Part B Independent project50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentWorkshop Project 40%
ProjectProject Part A Project proposal 10%
ProjectProject Part B Independent 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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    International photojournalism and documentary photography
  • Unit Code

    PHO3320
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Duncan BARNES

Description

In this unit, students will engage with practices, issues and practicalities of working as a photojournalist in an international, cross cultural context. This unit is an outbound study tour program. Students will work in collaboration with an overseas institution in the Asia Pacific region to research, produce and present stories to local and international audiences.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Delivered in collaboration with an overseas institution in the Asia Pacific region during ECU Summer School period.

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. Produce photojournalistic stories drawn from fieldwork to a standard suitable for international distribution and exhibition.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to contemporary aspects of Asian society, geography and culture.
  2. Orientalism and the representation of others.
  3. Hegemonic relationships between Western media and the Majority World.
  4. Story and image production, editing and packaging.
  5. Distribution and dissemination employing online resources and/or print exhibition (e.g., mixed media, blogs, galleries).

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars are used in this unit that helps foster both peer-to-peer learning and a learner-centered approach. Seminar times vary from a few hours to an entire day as well as incorporating hands-on workshops run in conjunction with international photojournalists. Since International Photojournalism is taught as an international outbound study tour experience, students should expect that they might work unconventional hours compared to the structured times of onshore oncampus study.

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
AssignmentWorkshop Project40%
ProjectProject Part A Project Proposal 10%
ProjectProject Part B Independent project50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentWorkshop Project 40%
ProjectProject Part A Project proposal 10%
ProjectProject Part B Independent 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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