Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

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

    Journaling and Drawing
  • Unit Code

    VIS2520
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit asks - what is a journal and what is its relationship to drawing? How have artists, scientists and writers used the journal as a tool for researching, recording, drawing, writing, and discovery? A history of drawing and journals considers this intimate space as a springboard for the realisation of ideas. It can be seen as a portable exhibition, which embodies knowledge, perception, and observation. The emphasis will be on small scale, often rapid and spontaneous drawing. This unit encourages and aids students in developing a diverse vocabulary of visual thinking and to acknowledge fragmentary responses. Collaborative dialogues will be addressed through a correspondence project. A variety of media will be introduced to actively think through drawing in close relationship with the journal.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Collaborate with others in the development and expression of ideas.
  2. Generate their own journal and associated portfolio of drawings.
  3. Identify and develop ideas through the generation of drawings and text.
  4. Identify the key historical and contemporary elements of artists' journals.

Unit Content

  1. Collaborative dialogues through correspondence.
  2. Cross-cultural analysis of image and text.
  3. Developmental and preparatory drawings.
  4. History of journals and drawing.
  5. Media and mediums for Journaling and drawing.
  6. The language of fragments.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Workshops. Demonstrations. Seminars.

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
ProjectResearch Portfolio20%
ProjectCollaborative Project20%
JournalCreative Project60%

Text References

  • Bourgeois, L., & Rinder, L. (1996). Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and observations. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley.

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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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

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

    Journaling and Drawing
  • Unit Code

    VIS2520
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit asks - what is a journal and what is its relationship to drawing? How have artists, scientists and writers used the journal as a tool for researching, recording, drawing, writing, and discovery? A history of drawing and journals considers this intimate space as a springboard for the realisation of ideas. It can be seen as a portable exhibition, which embodies knowledge, perception, and observation. The emphasis will be on small scale, often rapid and spontaneous drawing. This unit encourages and aids students in developing a diverse vocabulary of visual thinking and to acknowledge fragmentary responses. Collaborative dialogues will be addressed through a correspondence project. A variety of media will be introduced to actively think through drawing in close relationship with the journal.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Collaborate with others in the development and expression of ideas.
  2. Generate their own journal and associated portfolio of drawings.
  3. Identify and develop ideas through the generation of drawings and text.
  4. Identify the key historical and contemporary elements of artists' journals.

Unit Content

  1. Collaborative dialogues through correspondence.
  2. Cross-cultural analysis of image and text.
  3. Developmental and preparatory drawings.
  4. History of journals and drawing.
  5. Media and mediums for Journaling and drawing.
  6. The language of fragments.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Workshops. Demonstrations. Seminars.

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
ProjectResearch Portfolio20%
ProjectCollaborative Project20%
JournalCreative Project60%

Text References

  • Bourgeois, L., & Rinder, L. (1996). Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and observations. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley.

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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