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Unit of Study ART00498 - Contemporary Debates in Visual Culture (2017)

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Unit description

The unit explores key debates in art history and visual culture that have been central to a range of post-1960s art practices. Distinctions between Modern, Postmodern and Contemporary art will be addressed through numerous theoretical frameworks such as feminism, post-colonialism, phenomenology, new technology, globalisation, capitalism and digital culture.

Unit content

  • Postmodernism
  • Pop Art
  • Site-specific art
  • Conceptual Art
  • Activist art
  • Digital culture
  • Global culture
  • Post-structuralism
  • Post-critical theory
  • Visual and theoretical analysis

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Location Domestic International
Lismore Session 1 Session 1

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 articulate the conditions and contradictions of key discourses relevant to art and visual culture
2 articulate the relation between a range of practices and theories relevant to post-1960s art
3 demonstrate visual analysis skills
4 demonstrate critical writing skills
5 produce original and historically accurate research that draws from academic sources
6 summarise the similarities and differences between modern and postmodern art

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. articulate the conditions and contradictions of key discourses relevant to art and visual culture
    • GA1:
    • GA7:
  2. articulate the relation between a range of practices and theories relevant to post-1960s art
    • GA1:
  3. demonstrate visual analysis skills
    • GA7:
  4. demonstrate critical writing skills
    • GA7:
  5. produce original and historically accurate research that draws from academic sources
    • GA5:
    • GA6:
  6. summarise the similarities and differences between modern and postmodern art
    • GA4:
    • GA6:

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