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Unit Summary

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

AQF level

7

Level of learning

Intermediate

Former School/College

Former School of Arts and Social Sciences

Pre-requisites

ART00601 - Framing Modernity

Unit aim

Explores the consequences of postmodernity for contemporary visual culture through investigations into representation, subjectivity and the nature of critique. Examines a number of emerging practices and new alliances in the production of visual culture.

Unit content

  • Specific writing: The visual arts industry
  • Postmodernity: Consequences of avant-gardism
  • Post-structuralism: Critiques of language
  • Critical practices: Critiques of subjectivity and identity
  • Post-object artists, theorists and audiences
  • Spatiality: Emerging practices, new alliances
  • New media technologies and information literacy skills

Learning outcomes

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.

GA1: , GA2: , GA3: , GA4: , GA5: , GA6: , GA7:
On completion of this unit, students should be able to: GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 articulate the conditions and contradictions of contemporary visual discourses
2 relate post-structural theories to contemporary visual practices
3 recognise theoretical strategies relevant to contemporary visual practices
4 demonstrate fluency with relevant visual languages and issues
5 demonstrate capable information literacy skills relevant to visual culture
6 demonstrate effective teamwork skills
7 demonstrate capable critical writing skills relevant to the visual arts industry

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

  1. articulate the conditions and contradictions of contemporary visual discourses
    • GA1:
    • GA7:
  2. relate post-structural theories to contemporary visual practices
    • GA1:
  3. recognise theoretical strategies relevant to contemporary visual practices
    • GA1:
  4. demonstrate fluency with relevant visual languages and issues
    • GA7:
  5. demonstrate capable information literacy skills relevant to visual culture
    • GA7:
  6. demonstrate effective teamwork skills
    • GA6:
  7. demonstrate capable critical writing skills relevant to the visual arts industry
    • GA6:

Prescribed texts

  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed texts may change in future teaching periods.