Course Title: Photography Studio 3
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Photography Studio 3
Credit Points: 24.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
VART3636 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
340H Art |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 1 2019, Sem 1 2020, Sem 2 2021, Sem 1 2022, Sem 1 2023, Sem 1 2024, Sem 2 2024, Sem 1 2025, Sem 2 2025 |
Course Coordinator: Ray Cook
Course Coordinator Phone: Please email
Course Coordinator Email: ray.cook@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Availability: By email
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
To qualify for entry into this course you need to have successfully completed VART 3635 Photography Studio 2.
Course Description
In this studio, it is expected that you have a developed photographic practice, an awareness of how to place yourself within the multiple narratives of contemporary photography, and a skill set that enables you to solve complex visual problems to more critically engage with the theories and practice of photography.
This studio begins to consolidate your photographic practice and explore the diverse ways of working within a creative industry. The course considers audience and how photography is encountered within the community of practice globally. Skills in the presentation, distribution and consumption of photography are explored, along with ways in which to position your own work into this context.
Central to this studio is the formal critique of your work with your academic staff and peers. During the critique you will develop strategies to present and uphold your ideas and work to your peers, respond to supportive discussion, and evaluate your work through new insights.
Projects are realised in consultation with your academic advisor, with the intention of ensuring you are ready to complete your final folio of work.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
In this course you will develop the following program learning outcomes:
- Apply expert judgement and mastery of appropriate photographic concepts and skills, using an advanced and integrated understanding of creative theories and practice.
- Reflect on your photographic practice, and situate it within a contemporary narrative of photography and the wider social, cultural and global context.
- Analyse, reflect and synthesise complex information to inform the creation of photographic works.
- Solve complex problems through expert practical knowledge and specialised technical skills.
- Identify, evaluate and resolve both practical and theoretical challenges in combining academic research and writing with reflective practices in photographic production to successfully complete and communicate practice-led photographic research.
- Work autonomously and with others in collaborative environments to seek innovative and critically reflective solutions and outcomes.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Utilise high level digital literacy skills to produce, document, present and publish your photographic works
- Independently evaluate, and critically assess photographic work from one or more photographic disciplines
- Employ practice-led techniques and methods to critically analyse the contribution of cultural and photographic theories to the production of a creative photographic folio of work
- Formulate and communicate ideas and engage in the discussion of photographic works, creative problem solving and relevant ideas in contemporary photography and culture
Overview of Learning Activities
Your learning in this course is studio based and takes place through a series of lectures, workshops and tutorials, as well as through access to online materials, instructional tutorials and readings.
The focus of this course is on audience encounter, and the strategies and options for the professional presentation of work.
You will present your work in a series of open critique sessions with academic staff and your peers. Critique sessions are designed to support the resolution of your work, as well as to facilitate the development of your ability to analyse and interpret photographic works.
Overview of Learning Resources
You will have access to a range of facilities across the school to support your area of practice such as workshops, studios, computer labs and study spaces.
RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.
The University Library has extensive resources for School of Art students. The Library has produced a subject guide that includes quality online and print resources for your studies Library Subject Guides
An extensive searchable reading list is made available to all enrolled students via Canvas.
Additional support for academic writing can be accessed through the RMIT’s Study & Learning Centre
Overview of Assessment
You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Task 1: Proposal for Folio of Photographic Works, 15% (LO2, LO4)
Assessment Task 2: Skills and Critical Review Report 35% (LO2, LO3, LO4)
Assessment Task 3: Folio of Photographic Works, 50% (LO1, LO3)
The Proposal is a document that outlines your proposed project for the Folio of Photographic Works, describing your concepts, contextual research, and methods.
The Skills and Critical Review Report assessment is a reflective report on your skill development and conceptual development for your Folio of Photographic Works.
The Folio of Photographic Works assessment is designed to formalise your project(s) and consolidate your intentions to identify directions for final presentation.
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.
Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.