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MAS 330 – Network Cultures
2015 – MQC1 Day
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| Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Dr Craig Johnson
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MQC
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Credit points
3
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| Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
39cp
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Corequisites
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Co-badged status
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| Unit description |
Unit description
This unit explores the complex relation between technology and culture, in many forms. The impact of digital and networking technologies on contemporary cultural expression is examined with reference to social media, network culture and online media forms. The cultural and social implications of new media technologies are considered in the fields of intellectual property, notions of authorship, patterns of communication and consumption, the experience of space and time, consciousness, ethics and privacy. The representation of technology in art and science fiction is studied in detail. Broader social, political and cultural issues regarding technology are considered in the specific context of creative expression using new technologies.
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Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Understand a range of theories of technology and society
- Develop an expanded knowledge of the history of art and technology
- Appreciate and evaluate the complex relationship between digital networked technology and culture
- Assess contemporary art, media and network culture
- Relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
- Develop a range of advanced critical and creative thinking attributes
Assessment Tasks
| Name | Weighting | Due |
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| Tutorial Presentation | 20% | Weeks 5-13 |
| Class Participation | 20% | Ongoing |
| Short essay | 20% | 23rd April (week 6) |
| Major Essay | 40% | 12th June (week 13) |
Tutorial Presentation
Due: Weeks 5-13
Weighting: 20%
This is a verbal presentation, designed to test generic skills of delivery and presentation. Students may refer to notes and use props (video, projections etc.); however, the presentation is not to be read.
Topic: Choose a technology as a case study. Analyse the interaction between this technology and pertinent cultural and social factors. Include in this study an analysis of the technology’s history, its development and implementation, as well as its social/cultural effects. How do you interpret the relation between the technology and culture?
Grading Criteria: Students will be assessed on the content of the presentation, its effectiveness as communication, and responses to questions from the tutorial group.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Understand a range of theories of technology and society
- Develop an expanded knowledge of the history of art and technology
- Appreciate and evaluate the complex relationship between digital networked technology and culture
- Develop a range of advanced critical and creative thinking attributes
Class Participation
Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 20%
Grading criteria: This assessment will be graded on seminar attendance, the level of individual preparation (coming to class adequately prepared to discuss set unit readings and lecture materials), and participation in class discussion.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Understand a range of theories of technology and society
- Develop an expanded knowledge of the history of art and technology
- Appreciate and evaluate the complex relationship between digital networked technology and culture
- Assess contemporary art, media and network culture
- Relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
- Develop a range of advanced critical and creative thinking attributes
Short essay
Due: 23rd April (week 6)
Weighting: 20%
Topic: Analyse a work of art or fiction in any form or media. How is technology represented in this work? What values are attributed to technology in the work?
Grading criteria: This assessment will be graded on the following criteria: the choice of a suitable case study; the establishment of a clear argument in response to the question and the logical elaboration of that argument supported by academic research both within the set unit readings and beyond; an intelligent engagement with that academic research; a satisfactory level of written expression; use of academic referencing.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Understand a range of theories of technology and society
- Develop an expanded knowledge of the history of art and technology
- Appreciate and evaluate the complex relationship between digital networked technology and culture
- Assess contemporary art, media and network culture
- Relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
- Develop a range of advanced critical and creative thinking attributes
Major Essay
Due: 12th June (week 13)
Weighting: 40%
Choose ONE of the following:
1) Discuss the impact of networked technology on one cultural form or practice - e.g. journalism, the music industry, publishing. Can this impact best be described as a disruption?
2) Discuss the cultural and social implications of new media technologies. Effects are being felt in, for example, intellectual property, notions of authorship, patterns of communication and consumption, the experience of space and time, ethics and privacy. Analyse the cultural ramifications of internet and/or other digital technologies by focusing on one of these areas.
3) How has technology affected consciousness? Discuss the impact of communication, information or other technologies on consciousness. You may include as aspects of consciousness: cognition, perception, memory, sense of self.
4) You may submit a production work instead of an essay. This work should be concerned with the relation between technology and culture. It must be accompanied by a written rationale of 750-1000 words, outlining the conceptual base of the production. All productions must be approved in advance by your tutor.
Grading criteria: Options 1, 2 and 3 will be graded on the following criteria: the establishment of a clear argument in response to the question and the logical elaboration of that argument supported by academic research both within the set unit readings and beyond; an intelligent engagement with that academic research; a satisfactory level of written expression; use of academic referencing.
Option 4: the production work must demonstrate a sophisticated application of its medium's practices. The rationale must justify the work's relevant to the relationship between technology and culture.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Understand a range of theories of technology and society
- Develop an expanded knowledge of the history of art and technology
- Appreciate and evaluate the complex relationship between digital networked technology and culture
- Assess contemporary art, media and network culture
- Relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
- Develop a range of advanced critical and creative thinking attributes
Delivery and Resources
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED TEXTS AND/OR MATERIALS
A book of MAS330 Unit Readings is available from the MQC reception. The weekly readings as listed in the Unit Schedule include additional recommended readings: these are available in books held in the Library, or may be requested from the convenor. A list of websites and journals pertaining to major topics is included below after the References.
TECHNOLOGY USED AND REQUIRED
The unit uses the following technology: iLearn.
REFERENCES
The following are held in the Library
RESERVE
Copies of Murphie and Potts, Culture and Technology are held in Reserve.
Amerika, Mark remixthebook Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2011
Ascott, Roy (ed) Art, Technology, Consciousness: mind@large Bristol: Intellect 2000
Barglow, R. The Crisis of the Self in the Age of Information London: Routledge 1994
Baudrillard, Jean The Gulf War Did Not Take Place Sydney: Power 1996
- Simulations New York: Semiotext(e) 1984
Bell, David An Introduction to Cybercultures London: Routledge 2001
Bender & Druckrey, eds Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology Seattle: Bay Press 1995
Benjamin, Walter Illuminations London: Fontana 1970
Bettig, Ronald V. Copyrighting Culture: the Political Economy of Intellectual Property Boulder: Westview Press 1996
Brockman, John (ed) Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? New York: Harper 2011
Bukatman, Scott Blade Runner London: BFI 1997
- Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction Duke University Press 1993
Burnett, Robert and Marshall, David (eds) Web Theory: An Introduction London: Routledge 2003
Carr, Nicholas, The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember London: Atlantic 2010
Castells, Manuel The Rise of the Network Society London: Blackwell 1996
Clover, Joshua The Matrix London: BFI 2004
Cubitt, Sean Digital Aesthetics London: Sage 1998
Davis, Erik TechGnosis London: Serpent’s Tail 1999
Demers, Joanna Steal This Music: How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity Athens: University of Georgia Press 2006
Doctorow, Cory Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future San Francisco: Tachyon Press 2008
Druckrey, Tim Electronic Culture: Technology and the Visual New York: Aperture 1996
Ede, Sian, Art & Science London: I. B. Tauris 2005
Edwards, David Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2008
Eisenstein, Elizabeth The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe New York: Cambridge University Press 1979
Ezrahi et al (eds) Technology, Pessimism and Postmodernism University of Massachusetts Press 1995
Feather, John The Information Society: A Study of Continuity and Change Fifth Edition London: Facet Publishing 2008
Featherstone & Burrows (eds) Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk London: Sage 1995
Flew, Terry New Media: An Introduction Melbourne: Oxford University Press 2005
Fuller, Gillian and Harley, Ross Aviopolis: A Book About Airports London: Black Dog Publishing 2005
Garfield, Simon On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does London: Profile Books 2012
Garfinkel, Simson Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century Cambridge: O’Reilly 2000
Gere, Charlie, Digital Culture London: Reaktion 2008
Gergen, K. J. The Saturated Self Basic Books 1991
Goggin, Gerard Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life Oxon: Routledge, 2006
Gorman, Lyn and McLean, David Media and Society into the 21st Century Second Edition Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Green, Leila Technoculture: From Alphabet to Cybersex Sydney: Allen & Unwin 2002
Green & Guinery (eds) Framing Technology Sydney: Allen & Unwin 1994
Greene, Rachel Internet Art London: Thames & Hudson 2004
Greenfield, Susan ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century London: Sceptre 2008
- Tomorrow’s People: How 21st Century Technology is Changing the Way We Think and Feel London: Sceptre 2004
Grodin, Debra and Lindlof, Thomas (eds) Constructing the Self in a Mediated World London: Sage 1996
Haraway, Donna Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Re-invention of Nature New York: Routledge 1991
Harries, Dan (ed) The New Media Book London: BFI 2002
Hayles, N. Katherine How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1999
Heim, Michael Virtual Realism University of Oxford Press 1998
Hill, Stephen The Tragedy of Technology Sydney: Pluto 1989
Holmes, Thom Electronic and Experimental Music 2nd edition London: Routledge 2002
Horgan, John The Undiscovered Mind London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999
Jenkins, Henry Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide New York: New York University Press, 2006
Jones, Barry Sleepers, Wake! Melbourne: Oxford University Press 1988
Kalantzis-Cope, Phillip and Gherab-Martin, Karim (eds) Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
Keen, Andrew The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture New York: Currency, 2006
Kelly, Caleb Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction Cambridge: MIT Press 2009
Kuhn, Annette ed. Alien Zone London: Verso 1990
Alien Zone 11 London: Verso 1999
Kusek, David and Leonhard, Gerd The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution Boston: Berklee Press, 2005
Latour, Bruno Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005
Lefebvre, Henri, Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life London: Continuum 2004
The Production of Space Oxford: Blackwell 1991
Lessig, Lawrence Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and The Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity Penguin 2004
- Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace New York: Basic Books 1999
Levin, Frohne and Weibel (eds) CTRL Space: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother Karlsruhe: ZKM 2002
Levinson, Paul Digital McLuhan London: Routledge 1999
Levy, Pierre Becoming Virtual: Reality in the Digital Age New York: Plenum Trade 1998
- Collective Intelligence New York: Plenum Trade 1997
Lewontin, Richard The Doctrine of DNA: Biology as Ideology London: Penguin 1993
Lonik, Geert Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture Cambridge: MIT Press 2002
Mackenzie & Wajcman eds The Social Shaping of Technology Oxford University Press 1999
McGrath, John E. Loving Big Brother: Performance, Privacy and Surveillance Space London: Routledge 2004
McLuhan, Marshall Understanding Media London: Abacus 1974
The Medium is the Massage Penguin 1967
McQuire, Scott Visions of Modernity London: Sage 1996
Mandiberg, Michael (ed) The Social Media Reader New York: New York University Press 2012
Manovich, Lev The Language of New Media Cambridge: MIT Press 2001
Marshall, P. David New Media Cultures London: Arnold 2004
Meikle, Graham and Young, Sherman Media Convergence Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2012
Meikle, Graham Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet New York: Routledge 2002
Meyrowitz, Joshua No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behaviour Oxford: Oxford University Press 1985
Moravec, Hans Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1988
Murphie, Andrew and Potts, John Culture and Technology Basingstoke: Palgrave 2003
Olalquiaga, Celeste Megalopolis: Contemporary Cultural Sensibilities University of Minnesota Press 1992
Ong, W. J. Orality and Literacy London: Routledge 1982
Paul, Christiane Digital Art London: Thames & Hudson 2003
Pinker, Steven How The Mind Works New York: WW Norton 1997
Potts, John (ed) The Future of Writing Basingstoke: Palgrave Pivot 2014
Plant, Sadie Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture London: Fourth Estate 1997
Postman, Neil Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology Harvard University Press 1993
Rodzvilla, John (ed) We’ve Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture Cambridge, MA.: Perseus Books, 2002
Rose, Steven The Making of Memory London: Bantamm Press 1992
Rosenberg, Daniel and Harding, Susan (eds) Histories of the Future Durham: Duke University Press 2005
Ross, Andrew Strange Weather: Culture, Science and Technology in the Age of Limits London: Verso 1991
Rush, Michael New Media in Art London: Thames & Hudson 2005
Schroeder, Ralph Rethinking Science, Technology and Social Change Stanford: Stanford University Press 2007
Solove, Daniel J. The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet New Haven: Yale University Press 2007
Suzuki & Knudston Genethics: The Ethics of Engineering Life Sydney: Allen & Unwin 1989
Tapscott, Don and Williams, Anthony, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything London: Atlantic 2007
Taylor, Timothy D. Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture New York: Routledge 2001
Theberge, Paul Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology Hanover: Wesleyan University Press 1997
Tofts, Darren Interzone: Media Arts In Australia Melbourne: Craftsmans House 2005
- Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberspace Melbourne: 21C 1998
Tofts, Jonson & Cavallaro (eds) Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press 2002
Turkle, Sherry Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other New York: Basic Books, 2011
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet New York: Simon & Shuster 1995
The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit New York: Simon & Shuster 1984
Varnelis, Kazys (ed) Networked Publics Cambridge: MIT Press 2008
Virilio, Paul The Aesthetics of Disappearance New York: Semiotext(e) 1991
War and Cinema London: Verso 1989
Wajcman, Judy Feminism Confronts Technology Sydney: Allen & Unwin 1991
Warrick, Patricia The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction MIT Press 1980
Wark, McKenzie Gamer Theory Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2007
Williams, Raymond Television: Technology and Cultural Form New York: Schocken Books 1975
Winner, Langdon The Whale and the Reactor University of Chicago Press 1986
Winston, Brian Media Technology and Society London: Routledge 1998
Woodmansee, Martha and Jaszi, Peter (eds) The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature Durham: Duke University Press 1994
JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES
Convergence
Media Culture and Society
Media International Australia
New Formations
Continuum
Wired
Real Time
ON-LINE JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES
SCAN: Journal of Media Arts and Culture: http:://scan.net.au
FIBRECULTURE http://journal.fibreculture.org
SENSES OF CINEMA http://sensesofcinema.com
M/C – A Journal of Media & Culture: http://media-culture.org.au
fibreculture: http://www.fibreculture.org/
SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES http://www.depauw.edu/sfs
COUNTERBLAST: The E-Journal of Culture and Communication - http://www.nyu.edu/pubs/counterblast
CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA http://ctheory.concordia.ca
FRAME: Online Journal of Culture and Technology http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/frame
CYBERSOCIOLOGY magazine http://www.cybersociology.com
GAME STUDIES: International Journal of Computer Game Research - www.gamestudies.org
DOTLIT The Online Journal of Creative Writing www.dotlit.qut.edu.au
MESH http://www.experimenta.org/mesh/mesh.html
REAL TIME + ON SCREEN http://www.realtimearts.net
RECOMMENDED WEBSITES
MEDIA ARTS
AUSTRALIAN NETWORK FOR ART AND TECHNOLOGY http://www.anat.org.au
DIGITAL INTERACTIVE ARTISTS’ NETWORK http://dian-network.com
SYNAPSE – Art and Science http://www.synapse.net.au
ARS ELECTRONICA http://www.aec.at
trAce Online Writing Centre: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk
Electronic Music Foundation: http://www.emf.org
SONUS music project: http://www.sonus.ca
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Free Software Foundation: http://www.gnu.org
Open Source Initiative: http://www.opensource.org
Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org
Copyleft: http://www.gnu.org.copyleft/copyleft.html
Musicians Against Copyrighting of Samples : http://www.icomm.ca/macos
CONSCIOUSNESS
Center for Consciousness Studies: http://consciousness.arizona.edu
The Brain Project: www.culture.com.au/brain_proj/index.htm
*spark-online-exploring electronic consciousness: http://www.spark-online.com
PSYCHE – an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness: http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au
Science and Consciousness Review: http://www.sci-con.org
Unit Schedule
Note on Readings: Included in the weekly readings are several chapters from Culture and Technology by Murphie and Potts. These chapters indicate further important readings relevant to each week. Additional Readings are located in books held in the Library.
WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION (19th March)
Required Reading:
Murphie & Potts (2003) “Introduction”
Langdon Winner, “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” in Winner (1986)
WEEK 2: PROGRESS, INNOVATION, DISRUPTION: THEORIES OF TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE
Murphie & Potts: Chapter 1 pp. 11-28
Adam Thierer, “The Case for Internet Optimism, Part 1: Saving the Net from its Detractors” in Berin Szoka (ed) The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet TechFreedom 2011. [free download: http://nextdigitaldecade.com/read-book-now]
Jill Lepore, “The Disruption Machine”, The New Yorker 23 June 2014, pp. 30 - 36
WEEK 3: NETWORK CULTURE, SPACE AND TIME
Kazys Varnelis and Anne Friedberg, “Place: The Networking of Public Space” in Varnelis (ed) Networked Publics (2008)
Sherry Turkle, “Always On” from Alone Together (2011)
Graham Meikle and Sherman Young, 'Time, Space and Convergent Media' from Media Convergence (2012)
WEEK 4: TECHNOLOGY, ART & CULTURE
Murphie & Potts, Chapter 2 pp. 39-62
F.T. Marinetti, “Futurist Manifestoes” in J. C. Taylor, Futurism New York: Museum of Modern Art (1961)
Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” in Benjamin (1970)
WEEK 5: DIGITAL AESTHETICS: CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE
Murphie & Potts: Chapter 3 pp. 73-94, Chapter 2 pp. 63-65
Caleb Kelly, “Introduction: Cracked Media” in Cracked Media (2009)
Charlie Gere, “Digital Resistances” from Digital Culture (2008)
WEEK 6: SCIENCE FICTION 1
Murphie & Potts: Chapter 4 pp. 95-109
WEEK 7: SCIENCE FICTION 2 (16 September)
Murphie & Potts Chapter 4 pp. 109-114
Stuart Bender, "'There is Nothing to Carry Sound': Defamiliarisation and Reported Realism in Gravity", Senses of Cinema 71, July 2014
Joseph Natoli, "#Hashtag: Hunger Games Catches Fire, Audience Entertained", Senses of Cinema 71, July 2014
WEEK 8: WRITING DISRUPTED: JOURNALISM AND PUBLISHING
John Potts, "Introduction", The Future of Writing Basingstoke: Palgrave Pivot 2014
Richard Nash, "Culture is the Algorithm" in Potts (ed) The Future of Writing 2014
Jennifer Beckett & Catharine Lumby, "Reading and Writing the News in the Fifth Estate" in The Future of Writing 2014
WEEK 9: CASE STUDY: THE E-READER AND THE BOOK
John Potts, “Book Doomsday: The March of Progress and the Fate of the Book”, in Potts (2014)
Sherman Young, "It's Not the Reader", Meanjin Vol 69 No 2 (2010)
Nicholas Carr, "The Bookless Library" in John Brockman (ed) Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? (New York: Harper 2011)
WEEK 10: AUTHORSHIP AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Murphie & Potts Chapter 3 pp. 66-73
Cory Doctorow, “Giving it Away” and “How Copyright Broke” in Content: Selected Essays San Francisco: Tachyon (2008)
Steve Collins, “Kookaburra v. Down Under: It’s Just Overkill” in Scan Online Journal of Media Arts Culture Vol 7 No 1 2010
Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, "Whose Property? Mapping Intellectual Property Rights, Contextualising Digital Technology and Framing Social Justice" in Kalantzis-Cope & Gherab-Martin (eds) Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2011)
WEEK 11: PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY
Michael Zimmer, “Privacy Protection in the Next Digital Decade: ‘Trading Up’ or a ‘Race to the Bottom’?” in Szoka (ed) The Next Digital Decade (2011)
Daniel Solove, “Privacy in an Overexposed World” in The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumour and Privacy on the Internet New Haven: Yale University Press (2007)
David Lyon, "Surveillance, Power and Everyday Life" in Kalantzis-Cope & Gherab-Martin (eds) (2011)
WEEK 12: TECHNOLOGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Murphie & Potts Chapter 6 pp. 142-162
Nicholas Carr, “The Juggler’s Brain” from The Shallows London: Atlantic (2010)
Douglas Rushkoff, "The Internet Makes Me Think in the Present Tense" in John Brockman (ed) Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?
WEEK 13: TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE
Daniel Rosenberg and Susan Harding, “Introduction: Histories of the Future” in Rosenberg and Harding (eds) (2005)
Cory Doctorow, “The Progressive Apocalypse and Other Futuristic Delights” from Content (2008)
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Graduate Capabilities
Creative and Innovative
Our graduates will also be capable of creative thinking and of creating knowledge. They will be imaginative and open to experience and capable of innovation at work and in the community. We want them to be engaged in applying their critical, creative thinking.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Develop an expanded knowledge of the history of art and technology
- Appreciate and evaluate the complex relationship between digital networked technology and culture
- Assess contemporary art, media and network culture
- Relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
- Develop a range of advanced critical and creative thinking attributes
Assessment tasks
- Tutorial Presentation
- Major Essay
Capable of Professional and Personal Judgement and Initiative
We want our graduates to have emotional intelligence and sound interpersonal skills and to demonstrate discernment and common sense in their professional and personal judgement. They will exercise initiative as needed. They will be capable of risk assessment, and be able to handle ambiguity and complexity, enabling them to be adaptable in diverse and changing environments.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Assess contemporary art, media and network culture
- Develop a range of advanced critical and creative thinking attributes
Assessment tasks
- Tutorial Presentation
- Class Participation
Commitment to Continuous Learning
Our graduates will have enquiring minds and a literate curiosity which will lead them to pursue knowledge for its own sake. They will continue to pursue learning in their careers and as they participate in the world. They will be capable of reflecting on their experiences and relationships with others and the environment, learning from them, and growing - personally, professionally and socially.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Understand a range of theories of technology and society
- Appreciate and evaluate the complex relationship between digital networked technology and culture
- Assess contemporary art, media and network culture
- Relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
- Develop a range of advanced critical and creative thinking attributes
Assessment tasks
- Tutorial Presentation
- Class Participation
Discipline Specific Knowledge and Skills
Our graduates will take with them the intellectual development, depth and breadth of knowledge, scholarly understanding, and specific subject content in their chosen fields to make them competent and confident in their subject or profession. They will be able to demonstrate, where relevant, professional technical competence and meet professional standards. They will be able to articulate the structure of knowledge of their discipline, be able to adapt discipline-specific knowledge to novel situations, and be able to contribute from their discipline to inter-disciplinary solutions to problems.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Understand a range of theories of technology and society
- Develop an expanded knowledge of the history of art and technology
- Appreciate and evaluate the complex relationship between digital networked technology and culture
- Assess contemporary art, media and network culture
- Relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
Assessment tasks
- Tutorial Presentation
- Class Participation
- Short essay
- Major Essay
Critical, Analytical and Integrative Thinking
We want our graduates to be capable of reasoning, questioning and analysing, and to integrate and synthesise learning and knowledge from a range of sources and environments; to be able to critique constraints, assumptions and limitations; to be able to think independently and systemically in relation to scholarly activity, in the workplace, and in the world. We want them to have a level of scientific and information technology literacy.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Understand a range of theories of technology and society
- Develop an expanded knowledge of the history of art and technology
- Appreciate and evaluate the complex relationship between digital networked technology and culture
- Assess contemporary art, media and network culture
- Relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
- Develop a range of advanced critical and creative thinking attributes
Assessment tasks
- Tutorial Presentation
- Class Participation
- Short essay
- Major Essay
Problem Solving and Research Capability
Our graduates should be capable of researching; of analysing, and interpreting and assessing data and information in various forms; of drawing connections across fields of knowledge; and they should be able to relate their knowledge to complex situations at work or in the world, in order to diagnose and solve problems. We want them to have the confidence to take the initiative in doing so, within an awareness of their own limitations.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Understand a range of theories of technology and society
- Develop an expanded knowledge of the history of art and technology
- Appreciate and evaluate the complex relationship between digital networked technology and culture
- Relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
- Develop a range of advanced critical and creative thinking attributes
Assessment tasks
- Short essay
- Major Essay
Effective Communication
We want to develop in our students the ability to communicate and convey their views in forms effective with different audiences. We want our graduates to take with them the capability to read, listen, question, gather and evaluate information resources in a variety of formats, assess, write clearly, speak effectively, and to use visual communication and communication technologies as appropriate.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Develop an expanded knowledge of the history of art and technology
- Appreciate and evaluate the complex relationship between digital networked technology and culture
- Assess contemporary art, media and network culture
- Relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
- Develop a range of advanced critical and creative thinking attributes
Assessment tasks
- Tutorial Presentation
- Class Participation
Engaged and Ethical Local and Global citizens
As local citizens our graduates will be aware of indigenous perspectives and of the nation's historical context. They will be engaged with the challenges of contemporary society and with knowledge and ideas. We want our graduates to have respect for diversity, to be open-minded, sensitive to others and inclusive, and to be open to other cultures and perspectives: they should have a level of cultural literacy. Our graduates should be aware of disadvantage and social justice, and be willing to participate to help create a wiser and better society.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcome
- Develop a range of advanced critical and creative thinking attributes
Assessment task
- Class Participation
Socially and Environmentally Active and Responsible
We want our graduates to be aware of and have respect for self and others; to be able to work with others as a leader and a team player; to have a sense of connectedness with others and country; and to have a sense of mutual obligation. Our graduates should be informed and active participants in moving society towards sustainability.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Assessment tasks
- Class Participation
- Major Essay