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

    Printmaking Studio 1: Intaglio and Relief
  • Unit Code

    VIS2140
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Paul Gerard UHLMANN

Description

This introductory unit aims to generate understanding of how traditional forms of printmaking, utilising intaglio and relief, are powerful methods for addressing global and personal concerns. In order to create their own images, students will, through hands-on workshops, demonstrations and contextual lectures, critically consider the working methods and concepts of contemporary and historic artists. Students will experimentally work through set projects and develop their own project by employing a range of processes, including etching; drypoint; woodcut; linocut; letterpress as well as other approaches to the printed image

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed VIS1315

Equivalent Rule

Replaces VIS2525

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create text, drawings, collages, test prints and photographs informed by historical research.
  2. Produce an experimental series of prints using a range of intaglio and relief processes.
  3. Describe the technical, aesthetic, and historical contexts of their prints.
  4. Produce a final series of prints using a range of intaglio and relief processes that evidences a critical approach to the printed image with potential outcomes being either artists books, print folios or print installations.
  5. Apply professional and safe working practices within the printmaking studio.

Unit Content

  1. Drawing and collage processes for printmaking.
  2. Plate / block making and printing techniques.
  3. Tone and colour printing.
  4. The historical and contemporary context of intaglio and relief images.
  5. Conceptual application of print processes to contemporary concerns.

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lecturers, demonstrations & workshops

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
Creative WorkCreative project 110%
ProjectVisual Diary - Research20%
Creative WorkCreative Project 230%
Creative WorkCreative Project 340%

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

    Printmaking Studio 1: Intaglio and Relief
  • Unit Code

    VIS2140
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Paul Gerard UHLMANN

Description

This introductory unit aims to generate understanding of how traditional forms of printmaking, utilising intaglio and relief, are powerful methods for addressing global and personal concerns. In order to create their own images, students will, through hands-on workshops, demonstrations and contextual lectures, critically consider the working methods and concepts of contemporary and historic artists. Students will experimentally work through set projects and develop their own project by employing a range of processes, including etching; drypoint; woodcut; linocut; letterpress as well as other approaches to the printed image

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded VIS2525.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create text, drawings, collages, test prints and photographs informed by historical research.
  2. Produce an experimental series of prints using a range of intaglio and relief processes.
  3. Describe the technical, aesthetic, and historical contexts of their prints.
  4. Produce a final series of prints using a range of intaglio and relief processes that evidences a critical approach to the printed image with potential outcomes being either artists’ books, print folios or print installations.
  5. Apply professional and safe working practices within the printmaking studio.

Unit Content

  1. Drawing and collage processes for printmaking.
  2. Plate / block making and printing techniques.
  3. Tone and colour printing.
  4. The historical and contemporary context of intaglio and relief images.
  5. Conceptual application of print processes to contemporary concerns.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lecturers, demonstrations & workshops

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
Creative WorkCreative project 110%
ProjectVisual Diary - Research20%
Creative WorkCreative Project 230%
Creative WorkCreative Project 340%

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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