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

    Praxis in a Globalised Visual Culture
  • Unit Code

    VIS3501
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit examines the conditions that face the visual practitioner in a globalised cultural economy. Students will be introduced to the debates surrounding multiculturalism and intercultural exchange, and examine how these relate to a contemporary digital culture in which the local and global relationships of the twenty first century are being altered. Students will be introduced to creative methodologies and strategies relating to these debates.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded VIS2540

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse contemporary debates surrounding the social production and consumption of digital and Internet art.
  2. Define key terms associated with theories of intercultural exchange and globalisation.
  3. Describe the forms of visual representation in contemporary practice.
  4. Discuss personal creative methodologies and strategies derived from praxis.

Unit Content

  1. Critical methodologies necessary for an analysis of contemporary globalised practices.
  2. Cultural and social affects on the production and consumption of digital and Internet art.
  3. Definitions of the Internet, globalism, interculturalism, multiculturalism and communicative action.
  4. Praxis as an interpretive and evaluative method.
  5. Research strategies.
  6. The concept of globalism and its impact on contemporary art practices.
  7. The lifeworld and systemic colonisation.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and tutorials.

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
AssignmentTutorial notes50%
Research PaperResearch Paper50%

Text References

  • ^ Crouch, C. (2004). Modernism in art, design and architecture. New York: Palgrave.
  • National Multicultural Advisory Council. (1999). Australian multiculturalism for a new century: Towards inclusiveness. Canberra: NMAC.
  • Duncombe, S. (2002). Cultural resistance reader. London: Verso.
  • Ayers, M., & McCaughey, M. (2003). Cyberactivism: Online activism in theory and practice. London: Routledge.
  • Debord, G. (1983). Society of the spectacle. Detroit: Black and Red.

^ Mandatory reference


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.

VIS3501|1|1

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

    Praxis in a Globalised Visual Culture
  • Unit Code

    VIS3501
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit examines the conditions that face the visual practitioner in a globalised cultural economy. Students will be introduced to the debates surrounding multiculturalism and intercultural exchange, and examine how these relate to a contemporary digital culture in which the local and global relationships of the twenty first century are being altered. Students will be introduced to creative methodologies and strategies relating to these debates.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded VIS2540

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse contemporary debates surrounding the social production and consumption of digital and Internet art.
  2. Define key terms associated with theories of intercultural exchange and globalisation.
  3. Describe the forms of visual representation in contemporary practice.
  4. Discuss personal creative methodologies and strategies derived from praxis.

Unit Content

  1. Critical methodologies necessary for an analysis of contemporary globalised practices.
  2. Cultural and social affects on the production and consumption of digital and Internet art.
  3. Definitions of the Internet, globalism, interculturalism, multiculturalism and communicative action.
  4. Praxis as an interpretive and evaluative method.
  5. Research strategies.
  6. The concept of globalism and its impact on contemporary art practices.
  7. The lifeworld and systemic colonisation.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and tutorials.

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
AssignmentTutorial notes50%
Research PaperResearch Paper50%

Text References

  • ^ Crouch, C. (2004). Modernism in art, design and architecture. New York: Palgrave.
  • National Multicultural Advisory Council. (1999). Australian multiculturalism for a new century: Towards inclusiveness. Canberra: NMAC.
  • Duncombe, S. (2002). Cultural resistance reader. London: Verso.
  • Ayers, M., & McCaughey, M. (2003). Cyberactivism: Online activism in theory and practice. London: Routledge.
  • Debord, G. (1983). Society of the spectacle. Detroit: Black and Red.

^ Mandatory reference


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.

VIS3501|1|2