Available in 2024
Course code

CIND3101

Units

10 units

Level

3000 level

Course handbook

Description

Truth, power, ethics and the manipulation of meaning are all embedded in the medium of photography, increasingly so in the digital and online domains. This studio-based course builds on students’ skills in image analysis and encourages advanced, critical photographic image making. Web technologies, screen-based imagery and timeline methods for display and audience interaction will be investigated, along with dissemination and critique of the still and moving image. Digital composition, design and image construction, enriched by the student’s independent research lead to a portfolio of sophisticated and conceptually rich photographic work.


Availability2024 Course Timetables

Newcastle City Precinct

  • Semester 1 - 2024

Replacing course(s)

This course replaces the following course(s): AART3462. Students who have successfully completed AART3462 are not eligible to enrol in CIND3101.


Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Critique and develop photographic images in relation to contemporary and historical forms of persuasion and meaning;

2. Produce screen-based images using a range of production techniques;

3. Create photographic work with a sophisticated conceptual basis;

4. Use appropriate research methods to underpin the production of photographic works.


Content

Topics will include:

  • Advertising and persuasion;
  • Propaganda;
  • Misinformation and image making;
  • Satirical images;
  • Software-based manipulation;
  • Ethics and photographic practice;
  • Images as evidence;
  • The verification of digital images.

Requisite

Students who have successfully completed AART3462 cannot enrol in this course.


Assumed knowledge

CIND1100, AART1700, CIND2100, CIND2101 and CIND2102


Assessment items

Journal: Studio Journal

Portfolio: Photographic Portfolio

Project: Photographic Project


Contact hours

Semester 1 - 2024 - Newcastle City Precinct

Lecture-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per fortnight for 6 fortnight(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per fortnight for 6 fortnight(s) starting in week 2

Course outline