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

    Identity
  • Unit Code

    SAH2110
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Panizza Ruth ALLMARK

Description

This unit examines complex and contested ideas of identity in contemporary Australian cosmopolitan culture. Local and global relationships are continuously altered and re-shaped, mediating personal, national and cultural identity. Using key theoretical, philosophical and creative approaches, students will examine how an understanding of identity is informed by various debates, including gender, culture and place. The unit will enable students to critically locate their personal identity and lifeworld within contemporary cultural identities and practices and reflexively apply these new understandings through group discussion, research, and producing an analytical or creative work appropriate to their discipline. This may include, but is not restricted to, an artwork, a design, a film, a broadcast, a literary fiction, or a digital work.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Reflect on key concepts associated with theories of identity and culture surrounding the personal, social, political, historical and creative production of the individual.
  2. Analyse theories of identity from a range of theoretical, philosophical and creative models and perspectives: culture, place, community, virtual and ethical.
  3. Interpret and apply ideas of identity reflexively to their specialism.
  4. Apply oral, written and creative communication skills to articulate their knowledge of identity.

Unit Content

  1. Theories concerning identity: personal, gender, biographical, collective, local, national, globalised, digital, virtual and ethics.
  2. Philosophical and creative models of identity.
  3. Cosmopolitan, post-colonial, place, culture, community, hybrid, fluid and embodied identity.

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
PresentationGroup Presentation 20%
Reflective PracticeReflective Journal 30%
ProjectAnalytical or Creative Project - Text based, visual, material or digital 50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationGroup Presentation 20%
Reflective PracticeReflective Journal30%
ProjectAnalytical or Creative Project - Text based, visual, material or digital 50%

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

    Identity
  • Unit Code

    SAH2110
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Panizza Ruth ALLMARK

Description

This unit examines complex and contested ideas of identity in contemporary Australian cosmopolitan culture. Local and global relationships are continuously altered and re-shaped, mediating personal, national and cultural identity. Using key theoretical, philosophical and creative approaches, students will examine how an understanding of identity is informed by various debates, including gender, culture and place. The unit will enable students to critically locate their personal identity and lifeworld within contemporary cultural identities and practices and reflexively apply these new understandings through group discussion, research, and producing an analytical or creative work appropriate to their discipline. This may include, but is not restricted to, an artwork, a design, a film, a broadcast, a literary fiction, or a digital work.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Reflect on key concepts associated with theories of identity and culture surrounding the personal, social, political, historical and creative production of the individual.
  2. Analyse theories of identity from a range of theoretical, philosophical and creative models and perspectives: culture, place, community, virtual and ethical.
  3. Interpret and apply ideas of identity reflexively to their specialism.
  4. Apply oral, written and creative communication skills to articulate their knowledge of identity.

Unit Content

  1. Theories concerning identity: personal, gender, biographical, collective, local, national, globalised, digital, virtual and ethics.
  2. Philosophical and creative models of identity.
  3. Cosmopolitan, post-colonial, place, culture, community, hybrid, fluid and embodied identity.

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
PresentationGroup Presentation 20%
Reflective PracticeReflective Journal 30%
ProjectAnalytical or Creative Project - Text based, visual, material or digital 50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationGroup Presentation 20%
Reflective PracticeReflective Journal30%
ProjectAnalytical or Creative Project - Text based, visual, material or digital 50%

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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