Courses Handbook 2008

1780 (v.7) Art Visual Culture - Introduction to Visual Culture 191


Area: Department of Art
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 300696 (v.3) VIS18 Introduction to Visual Culture
Syllabus: An introduction to some of the major ideas and events in the history of art. Designed as a basic introduction to the history of ideas and the effects such ideas have had on the evolution of art. While the unit has a Euro-centric bias, students are introduced to ideas from other cultural histories as an integral part of the unit. Students are taught the visual literacy needed to be able to understand the history and the contemporary practice of art.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 100300 Visual Arts and Crafts (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2008 Kalgoorlie Campus Semester 1 Y        
2008 Margaret River Campus Semester 1 Y        
2008 Midland Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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