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

    International photojournalism and documentary photography
  • Unit Code

    PHO3320
  • Year

    2024
  • 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).

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 School Progression Panel.

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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

    International photojournalism and documentary photography
  • Unit Code

    PHO3320
  • Year

    2024
  • 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).

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 School Progression Panel.

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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