School: Arts and Humanities

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

    Identity
  • Unit Code

    SAH2110
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Andrew Michael EWING

Description

This unit examines complex and contested ideas of identity in contemporary Australian cosmopolitan culture. Local and global relationships are continuously altered and re-shaped, mediating personal, national and cultural identity. Using key theoretical, philosophical and creative approaches, students will examine how an understanding of identity is informed by various debates, including gender, culture and place. The unit will enable students to critically locate their personal identity and lifeworld within contemporary cultural identities and practices and reflexively apply these new understandings.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Reflect on key concepts associated with theories of identity and culture surrounding the personal, social, political, historical and creative production of the individual.
  2. Analyse theories of identity from a range of theoretical, philosophical and creative models and perspectives: culture, place, community, virtual and ethical.
  3. Interpret and apply ideas of identity reflexively to their specialism.
  4. Apply oral, written and creative communication skills to articulate their knowledge of identity.

Unit Content

  1. Theories concerning identity: personal, gender, biographical, collective, local, national, globalised, digital, virtual and ethics.
  2. Philosophical and creative models of identity.
  3. Cosmopolitan, post-colonial, place, culture, community, hybrid, fluid and embodied identity.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 2 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 1 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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
ExerciseSet of Critical Thinking and Communication Skills Tasks60%
EssayResearch Essay40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseSet of Critical Thinking and Communication Skills Tasks60%
EssayResearch Essay40%

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.

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School: Arts and Humanities

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

    Identity
  • Unit Code

    SAH2110
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Andrew Michael EWING

Description

This unit examines complex and contested ideas of identity in contemporary Australian cosmopolitan culture. Local and global relationships are continuously altered and re-shaped, mediating personal, national and cultural identity. Using key theoretical, philosophical and creative approaches, students will examine how an understanding of identity is informed by various debates, including gender, culture and place. The unit will enable students to critically locate their personal identity and lifeworld within contemporary cultural identities and practices and reflexively apply these new understandings.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Reflect on key concepts associated with theories of identity and culture surrounding the personal, social, political, historical and creative production of the individual.
  2. Analyse theories of identity from a range of theoretical, philosophical and creative models and perspectives: culture, place, community, virtual and ethical.
  3. Interpret and apply ideas of identity reflexively to their specialism.
  4. Apply oral, written and creative communication skills to articulate their knowledge of identity.

Unit Content

  1. Theories concerning identity: personal, gender, biographical, collective, local, national, globalised, digital, virtual and ethics.
  2. Philosophical and creative models of identity.
  3. Cosmopolitan, post-colonial, place, culture, community, hybrid, fluid and embodied identity.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 2 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 1 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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
ExerciseSet of Critical Thinking and Communication Skills Tasks60%
EssayResearch Essay40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseSet of Critical Thinking and Communication Skills Tasks60%
EssayResearch Essay40%

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.

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