Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Photography Studio 4

Credit Points: 24.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

VART3637

City Campus

Postgraduate

340H Art

Face-to-Face

 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: via email


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Required Prior Study

You should have satisfactorily completed VART3636 Photography Studio 3 before you commence this course.

Alternatively, you may be able to demonstrate the required skills and knowledge before you start this course.

Contact your course coordinator if you think you may be eligible for recognition of prior learning.


Course Description

In this studio, you will finalise your projects, and complete a resolved folio of work for the capstone event of your program – Professional Folio Presentation. This will take the form of a presentation of your work for an external moderator from industry. During this studio course you will consolidate your editing, selection, and determine the most appropriate form of presentation for your work.

Central to this studio is the formal critique of your work with your academic staff and peers. During the critique you will develop advanced presentation strategies to comprehensively exhibit and/or present your work.

This course includes a work integrated learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/or community is integral to your experience.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

In this course you will develop the following program learning outcomes:

  1. Apply expert judgement and mastery of appropriate photographic concepts and skills, using an advanced and integrated understanding of creative theories and practice.
  2. Reflect on your photographic practice, and situate it within a contemporary narrative of photography and the wider social, cultural and global context.
  3. Analyse, reflect and synthesise complex information to inform the creation of photographic works.
  4. Solve complex problems through expert practical knowledge and specialised technical skills.
  5. 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.
  6. Work autonomously and with others in collaborative environments to seek innovative and critically reflective solutions and outcomes.
  7. Independently engage in continued learning to acquire the knowledge, skills and initiative to complete and communicate independent advanced research in one or more fields of photographic practice.


Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Employ specialised and comprehensive knowledge and skill to realise a photographic project for professional presentation
  2. Professionally exhibit and/or present your work in a way that is appropriate to the context of your project(s)
  3. Demonstrate mastery of photographic skills and methods in the creation of a professional level folio of photographic work.
  4. Articulate the social, historical and theoretical frameworks that have influenced your work


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.

he primary focus of this course is the final presentation of a resolved body of photographic works, presented for external examination.

A series of open critique sessions are designed to support the resolution of your work, as well as facilitate your ongoing skills in analysis and interpretation of photographic works.

During the course you will produce photographic works, with access to photographic studios, editing facilities and printing facilities


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 1: Proposal for Professional Folio Presentation 10% (LO1, LO4)
Assessment 2: Final Research and Practice Report 35% (LO1, LO4)
Assessment 3: Professional Folio Presentation, 50% (LO1, LO2, LO3)

The Proposal is a document that outlines your proposed project for the Professional Folio Presentation, describing your concepts, contextual research, and methods.

The Final Research and Practice Report is a document that articulates the resolution of your final project, critically analyses your creative and research processes, and situates your work within contemporary practice. It consolidates your conceptual, technical, and professional development.

The Professional Folio Presentation assessment task is designed to resolve your project(s), finalise your intentions, and complete a body of photographic work ready for professional 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.