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School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Printmaking + Artists Books

  • Unit Code

    VIS2800

  • Year

    2026

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Paul UHLMANN

Description

Printmaking – combining word and image to provoke and enlighten – is at the centre of a humanist revival which still reverberates through cultures globally. This unit provides the opportunity for unique collaborations between diverse material languages including contemporary digital media, photographic processes, the letterpress, relief, and intaglio process. In this unit, students create artists books as portable, interdisciplinary exhibitions that often fold disciplines such as poetry and printmaking together as catalysts for creative discovery and invention.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded VIS2525, VIS2140

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create text, drawings, collages, experimental prints and photographs informed by historical research in relation to a research problem.
  2. Explain the technical, aesthetic, and historical contexts of prints to develop artistic reflective practice and communication skills.
  3. Create and assemble a series of prints using a range of intaglio and relief processes that evidences a critical approach to the printed image for presentation as an artist book, print folio or print installation.
  4. Employ professional and safe working practices to cultivate independence and accountability 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 ECU's LMS

City CampusJoondalupSouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will devise their own project and will be guided by the lecturer to develop their own creative project through authentic learning processes informed by relevant research into contemporary theory and practice. Students will develop their own initiative and hone their skills as their confidence with the introduced art mediums increases. The unit will be supported by a reader which will provide theoretical base for debate to increase cultural competence and developing concepts addressing real world problems.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
JournalVisual Diary Research Journal20%
Creative WorkPrintmaking Project 130%
Creative WorkPrintmaking Project 250%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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