School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Foundations of Art Practice 2
  • Unit Code

    VIS1815
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Nicola KAYE

Description

The city is our studio. This unit explores the city as a productive arts space, through site-based projects that provide the context for problem-solving. Appropriate visual languages are developed through collaborative, critical dialogue and interventions into specific spaces, exploring multiple narratives, such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and intercultural dialogues. Immersion within the diverse cultures and publics of the city afforded by our local context will be critically explored through visual arts projects.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Assess the diverse influences of a site with a focus on the unique cultures and connection to country of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  2. Debate the theoretical understandings of competing histories and narratives to practice collaborative problem-solving in context.
  3. Conceptualise different spaces as the source for creative practice.
  4. Understand walking as a creative visual arts methodology as reflected upon in the journal and through class discussion.
  5. Express the ideas in visual arts through a range of visual arts processes and techniques to express critical understandings of issues related to specific places.

Unit Content

  1. Acknowledgement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their enduring culture and ongoing connection to the land, sky and sea.
  2. Identify and collaboratively debate key sites for investigation, and engagement, with a multiplicity of narratives within the local context.
  3. Develop a theoretical understanding of competing histories and narratives.
  4. Introduce walking as a creative methodology building upon the community of practice.
  5. Develop an approach to visual research and site intervention strategies using a range of media.
  6. Demonstrate best practice in relation to health and safety for working off campus.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Field Experience

Students experience an environment where they observe and/or participate in the application of theoretical knowledge and skills in a professional setting, under the supervision of an expert or professional in the field. Examples include study tours, observation, shadowing, fieldwork, industry tours.

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit supports and develops VIS1800 Foundations of Art Practice 1 by immersing the students in the city context through developing artworks in relation to various city sites.

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
ProjectCreative project - city, site and studio.20%
WorkshopWorkshop 1 - time-based art20%
WorkshopWorkshop 2 - printmaking20%
WorkshopWorkshop 3 - painting20%
JournalFoundation journal20%

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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