School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Studio: Exploration + Presentation
  • Unit Code

    VIS3860
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Paul UHLMANN

Description

This unit explores exhibition as an open-ended concept through ethical and cultural understandings as students work to plan and realise their final project. The potential of installation as an immersive practice as students work towards realising their final project which may be an exhibition of their artwork, a curatorial work, or a public intervention. Students are supported to intertwine theory with studio approaches to hone and critically develop their project. In consultation with peers and experts, students direct their visual art practice towards ambitious outcomes.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed VIS3850

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded VIS3152

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Devise a visual and written proposal presentation of an ambitious creative project to expand an autonomous visual arts practice.
  2. Generate source material, visual images and spatial models as forms of research that will critically inform the creative project.
  3. Evaluate the importance of documentation of in-progress creative work, to generate critical and reflexive discussion.
  4. Produce significant work that evidences relevant critical visual arts research which informs practice from planning stage to completion.
  5. Interpret and articulate their artwork to peers and public to independently consolidate a sustained visual art practice.

Unit Content

  1. The community of practice reinforces both collaborative and individual outcomes.
  2. Devise a written proposal informed by rigorous research and studio development.
  3. Development of appropriate visual languages to realise their project.
  4. Exploration and critique of exhibition practices.
  5. Forum of open debate through ethical, historical, social, contemporary and cultural discourses.
  6. Alignment of professional practice with project outcome.

Additional Learning Experience Information

In this capstone unit students have now reached a point where they are taking much more responsibility for their own learning. The unit is structured through relevant workshops and informed discussions to build capacity for taking further initiative and developing a firm sense of confidence and direction. Importantly, with the lecturer, they will work together as a community of peers through in-depth discussion and debate, to critically develop an awareness and societal impact of their own practice. Students may choose their own approach to making, which reinforces authentic learning, across a wide variety of studio disciplines including, painting, printmaking, time based media, hybrid approaches and installation. They are now combining all their research skills, including enhanced digital literacy, from professional practice and an intertwining of theory and practice to develop artworks for presentation to the public.

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
PresentationProject proposal20%
Creative WorkCreative project 130%
Creative WorkCreative project 250%

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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