School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Painting
  • Unit Code

    VIS1820
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Gregory PRYOR

Description

Painting defies easy definition, as it is an adaptable and evolving art that responds to the pressures of the period, site, and cultural demands. This unit enables students to develop foundational practice but also to become aware of the multiplicity of approaches to contemporary painting. Students investigate painting methods, approaches and the materiality of colour to develop a fundamental understanding of the diverse languages of a practice that is both ancient and contemporary.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded VIS2509, VIS2519, VIS2120

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Distinguish between various painting traditions and current practice.
  2. Demonstrate the interdependence between drawing and painting in a body of painting studies and informed outcomes.
  3. Experiment with materials, concepts and applications of expanded painting practice and its position in contemporary art.
  4. Employ a painting vocabulary in visual research that responds to a project brief.

Unit Content

  1. Detailed practical workshops that explore traditional and contemporary painting media and processes.
  2. The study of painting history and theory in relation to studio practice.
  3. The relationship between drawing and painting.
  4. An introduction to expanded painting practice.
  5. Formal analysis of painting and application of relevant terminology.
  6. Informed presentation of painting outcomes.

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars are expanded through structured workshops and demonstrations. Experimental studio processes emphasise authentic, manual expression. Diverse cultural models of painting will be explored through their specific materials, processes and concepts.

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
Creative WorkPainting studies30%
JournalVisual and textual research20%
Creative WorkFinal work50%

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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