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

    Drawing Studio
  • Unit Code

    VIS1323
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr David Christopher FITZALLEN

Description

Drawing is a pathway to exploring ideas. Students develop a dynamic material approach to contemporary studio practice through visual research, practical projects and workshops. Drawing will be considered a means to document, record or denote experience and observation where relationships between form, content and context underpin students inquiry.

Equivalent Rule

Previously coded VIS1303

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify and apply drawing and design visual language.
  2. Apply a variety of drawing materials and processes in an investigative way to visually document, record and investigate and experience.
  3. Identify and discuss the relationship between form and content in creative works.
  4. Orally communicate decision-making processes involved in the development of the creative work.
  5. Document in written and photographic form processes undertaken in the unit.

Unit Content

  1. Drawing processes and design principles related to observational and visual research.
  2. Application of media and materials for two-dimensional and three-dimensional creative visual research.
  3. Documentation and visual research processes directing the development and communication of content in drawing.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars are further developed through structured workshops and demonstrations. In combination with advice and guidance from the lecturer, this critical engagement combined with exploration and experimentation through practical workshops informs the artwork that the student will develop.

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
ProjectCreative Project 140%
ProjectCreative Project 240%
JournalVisual Research and Documentation20%

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

    Drawing Studio
  • Unit Code

    VIS1323
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr David Christopher FITZALLEN

Description

Drawing is a pathway to exploring ideas. Students develop a dynamic material approach to contemporary studio practice through visual research, practical projects and workshops. Drawing will be considered a means to document, record or denote experience and observation where relationships between form, content and context underpin students inquiry.

Equivalent Rule

Previously coded VIS1303

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify and apply drawing and design visual language.
  2. Apply a variety of drawing materials and processes in an investigative way to visually document, record and investigate and experience.
  3. Identify and discuss the relationship between form and content in creative works.
  4. Orally communicate decision-making processes involved in the development of the creative work.
  5. Document in written and photographic form processes undertaken in the unit.

Unit Content

  1. Drawing processes and design principles related to observational and visual research.
  2. Application of media and materials for two-dimensional and three-dimensional creative visual research.
  3. Documentation and visual research processes directing the development and communication of content in drawing.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars are further developed through structured workshops and demonstrations. In combination with advice and guidance from the lecturer, this critical engagement combined with exploration and experimentation through practical workshops informs the artwork that the student will develop.

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
ProjectCreative Project 140%
ProjectCreative Project 240%
JournalVisual Research and Documentation20%

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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