6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL
Undergraduate - Unit
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Faculty
Organisational Unit
Chief examiner(s)
Coordinator(s)
Unit guides
Prerequisites
12 credit points at second year level in Art history and theory, or Theory of Art and Design, Visual Culture or permission from Unit Coordinator.
Prohibitions
VSA2440, VSA3440, CLS2440, CLS3440, TAD2440, TAD3440, AHT2440
Notes
This unit was formerly coded TAD3440
Synopsis
The unit traces the history of international and Australian photography from the medium's invention to the 21st century. The unit will investigate the concept of analogue reproduction, especially photography's promise to represent the 'real' world, and consider practices in which the real is consistently manipulated. Photography will be considered across a range of disciplines: art, ethnographic and anthropological photographs; documentary photography; and the use of photography by the legal and medical system. Finally, the unit will address the changes in the production and circulation of images evident in digital modes of reproduction.
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this unit students will have developed:
- A broad knowledge of the history of international and Australian photography;
- Critical skills that enable them to identify and analyse a broad range of photographs and contexts;
- An understanding of the critical and theoretical debates related to photography in society;
- An understanding of two different modes of reproduction: the analogue and the digital;
- An understanding of the ways in which technologies of reproduction change modes of representation.
Assessment
Assignment 1,500 words (40%)
Research essay 2,500 words (60%)
Workload requirements
12 hours per week including 3 contact hours and 9 hours of independent study or equivalent
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