92910 POST COLONIAL STUDIES

Year	No.	Offer	Mode	Description			Cred. Pts
00	92910 	S1  	D 	POST COLONIAL STUDIES     	2.00

Contents

• Staffing
• Rationale
• Synopsis
• Objectives
• Topics
• Recommended References
• Student Workload
• Assessment Details
• Other Requirements

STAFFING:

RATIONALE:

It is important that at a Masters level students have a high degree of
awareness of contemporary cross-cultural issues in Visual Arts  theory
and  practice in the Asia-Pacific region and are able to locate  their
work within a post-colonial Australian context.

SYNOPSIS:

This  study is related to contemporary visual arts practice  in  Post-
Colonial Australia with specific reference to its Indigenous and Asia-
Pacific  contexts.  This  includes the investigation  and  interaction
between   cultural  production,  cultural  difference   and   multiple
traditions which form and increasingly inform contemporary visual arts
praxis.

OBJECTIVES:

On successful completion of this unit students will be able
to:

1. demonstrate an empirical understanding of cross-cultural
   issues as they relate to visual arts and crafts practices;
   
2. demonstrate a high degree of understanding of visual
   aesthetics particularly in Australia and the Asia-Pacific
   region;
   
3. contextualise contemporary Colonial and Post-Colonial theories
   as they relate to their chosen field of practice;
   
4. demonstrate advanced skills in conceptualising, planning and
   researching contemporary theoretical issues as they relate to
   their studio-based work and to underpin ultimately a public
   exhibition, performance or publication.
   

TOPICS:

 Description                                                    Weighting(%)

Theorizing Post-Colonialism:  discourse and identity

Theorizing gender

Theorizing the West

Theorizing colonized culture and anti-colonial
transgressions

Crossing Borders:  visual hybridities

Asia-Pacific Triennial:  curatorial paradigms

Imperalist slippages

RECOMMENDED REFERENCE MATERIALS:

To be advised.

STUDENT WORKLOAD REQUIREMENTS:

	ACTIVITY				HOURS
Tutorials/Workshops                           	28
Private Study                                 	292

ASSESSMENT DETAILS:

No  *F/S Marks     Due        Description                              Wtg(%)    LBL WWW
1   S              END SEM   SEE OTHER REQUIREMENTS                    100.00    N   N

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

1    Students will be graded on a `Pass', `Incomplete', `Fail' basis.
2    ASSESSMENT   DETAILS:   Description:  Draft   Literature   Review
     contextualizing Post-Colonial discourses.