Course Title: Art Studio Intensive
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Art Studio Intensive
Credit Points: 24.00
Course Coordinator: Mark Edgoose & Pauline Anastasiou
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 3540 / 9925 1969
Course Coordinator Email: mark.edgoose@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: Building 24.3 or Building 6.3
Course Coordinator Availability: via email
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None
Course Description
This intensive studio will be delivered through a variety of activities that will include, where appropriate: a face-to-face studio environment, workshops, lectures and discussions, fieldwork and/or site-specific projects (either on or off-shore), presentation and reflection. Study can be project, thematic and/or discipline focussed and can explore a range of practices. Your studio activities will be tailored to meet the learning needs of your discreet year level and the intensive timeframe in which this course occurs. You will define, research and document and present your ideas in consultation with academic staff and/or professionals in the field. You may work collaboratively and/or individually in order to respond to the themes, theories, and assessment tasks that are relevant to your studio. By undertaking developmental projects that utilise expansive and adaptable strategies you will have the opportunity to develop as a critically reflective creative practitioner. You will build on past experience by synthesizing and applying new information to develop appropriate ways of selecting concepts, materials and/or processes for making creative work. The objectives of this course are to produce resolved creative work including appropriate support materials and research that establishes the social and cultural framework for your practice.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
Program Learning Outcomes
If you are a Bachelor of Photography (BP117) student, you will develop the following program learning outcomes:
- Critically analyse, synthesise and reflect on your discipline in both local and international contexts.
- Employ, analyse, synthesise and reflect on your discipline in both local and international contexts.
- Employ critical and cultural discourses and technical knowledge of contemporary photographic practices and emerging technologies to achieve sophisticated outcomes.
- Apply initiative and judgment in planning, problem solving and decision making in your practice or future study.
If you are a Bachelor of Art (Fine Art) (BP201P16) student, you will develop the following program learning outcomes:
- Find creative solutions to constraints and challenges in a fine art context.
- Effectively communicate via artistic production in a range of media and modes with awareness of and sensitivity to arrange of local and global contexts and cultures.
- Engage in autonomous and continued learning, apply new theories of practice, and embrace new developments in cultural/artistic production.
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Use creativity and critical thinking skills to identify, innovate and solve problems in diverse contexts within your discipline.
- Apply specialised theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to broaden the scope of your emerging creative practice or future study.
- Formulate, articulate and justify the formal, material, conceptual and presentation strategies used in your creative practice.
- Explore and trial new theories of practice whilst expanding and translating concepts, materials and technologies via a diverse range of methods to create resolved work.
- Discuss and critically reflect upon your work and work of others applying a global contemporary creative arts perspective.
Overview of Learning Activities
You will engage with the studio as a process of creation and as a site of practice and enquiry. This course is studio based, which means your learning will be activated through experimenting, exploring, composing, envisioning, observing, and playing with a range of materials and processes. The studio will be presented through a variety of activities including workshops, experimentation, lectures, critical analysis, discussion, practice, presentation and reflection Depending upon your project, learning activities may occur offshore. You will receive verbal and/or written feedback from academic staff and peers through a variety of consultations, critique, and tutorials, which are designed to support the resolution of your final work and facilitate the development of your ability to give and receive feedback.
Overview of Learning Resources
RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems. You will also have access to a range of facilities across the school to support your area of practice.
The University Library has extensive resources for all students. The Library has produced a subject guide that includes quality online and print resources for your studies. http://rmit.libguides.com/
The Library provides guides on academic referencing http://www.rmit.edu.au/library/referencing and subject specialist help via your school Liaison Librarian.
You will also have access to online materials, instructional tutorials, and readings through Canvas and the https://artschoolportal.com
Overview of Assessment
You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes and on your development against the program capabilities. Your assessment tasks will be tailored to meet the learning needs of your discreet year level and the condensed timeframe in which this intensive course occurs.
ASSESSMENT
- Folio of Resolved works 50% LO 1, 2, 4
- Folio of Research Material 30% LO 1, 2, 4
- Critical Reflection and Articulation of Practice 20% LO 3, 5
Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks.
If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.
A student charter http://www.rmit.edu.au/about/studentcharter summarises your responsibilities as an RMIT student as well as those of your teachers.
Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions which are available for review online: http://www.rmit.edu.au/policies/academic#assessment