ARTHIST 730A/B : Exploring Pacific Art

Arts

2020 Semester One (1203) / Semester Two (1205) (30 POINTS)

Course Prescription

Focuses on a range of Māori and Pacific art forms. Themes dealt with include indigenous and migrant voices, memory and notions of belonging, popular culture and its interface with gallery practices, and stereotypes and representation. These topics will be discussed alongside relevant Māori and Pacific writers and theorists, including Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Albert Wendt and Epeli Hau’ofa.

Course Overview

This course highlights the intersections, relationships and connections between a wide and diverse range of Māori and Pacific art forms, including performance, tapa cloth, body adornment and contemporary gallery based art practices, and cultural concepts like talanoa (open ended dialogue), ta (temporal), va (spatial), kastom (customary practices) and turangawaewae ("a place to stand", a sense of belonging or association grounded in one’s genealogy and tied to a particular place).
It firmly positions Māori and Pacific artists, key exhibitions and art writers within an intersectional art historical framework, indigenous knowledge systems and the contemporary, global world.
Themes explored include indigenous and migrant voices, memory and notions of belonging, popular culture and its interface with gallery practices, and stereotypes and representation. Themes and issues are discussed alongside relevant Pacific writers and theorists, including Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Albert Wendt and Epeli Hau’ofa.

Course Requirements

Restriction: ARTHIST 732, 736 To complete this course students must enrol in ARTHIST 730 A and B, or ARTHIST 730

Capabilities Developed in this Course

Capability 1: Disciplinary Knowledge and Practice
Capability 2: Critical Thinking
Capability 4: Communication and Engagement
Capability 6: Social and Environmental Responsibilities

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
  1. Develop student's critical visual literacy. (Capability 1.1)
  2. Understand and appreciate the complexity of a range of cultural contexts and how they are demonstrated in art and visual culture. (Capability 2.2)
  3. Develop advanced knowledge and understanding of how Maori and Pacific artists explore and translate indigenous knowledge systems and urban experiences into a range of art forms such as tatau, tapa cloth, painting and photography, as well as performance and digital art practices. (Capability 6.2)
  4. Understand the ways that Maori artists incorporate indigenous values and concepts into their customary and contemporary art practices. (Capability 6.1)
  5. Research, analyse, and communicate a range of cultural perspectives clearly and persuasively. (Capability 4.2)

Assessments

Assessment Type Percentage Classification
Essay 35% Individual Coursework
Coursework 25% Individual Coursework
Case Studies 25% Individual Coursework
Coursework 15% Individual Coursework

Next offered

2020

Workload Expectations

This course is a standard 30 point course taught across two semesters and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in each two-semester 30 point course that they are enrolled in.

Classes revolve around readings which are discussed and related to a range of art works and practices. You are expected to have read and engaged with the relevant resources in preparation for class discussion each week.  

For this course, you can expect 36 hours of taught two hour discussion based classes, exhibition and gallery visits, and seminars, and 8 hours weekly of reading and thinking about the content and working on assignments.

Digital Resources

Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).

Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.

Academic Integrity

The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. This requirement also applies to sources on the internet. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against online source material using computerised detection mechanisms.

Inclusive Learning

All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.

Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website at http://disability.auckland.ac.nz

Well-being always comes first
We all go through tough times during the semester, or see our friends struggling. There is lots of help out there - for more information, look at this Canvas page (https://canvas.auckland.ac.nz/courses/33894), which has links to various support services in the University and the wider community.

Special Circumstances

If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.

If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.

This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.

Student Feedback

At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.

Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.

Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.

Student Charter and Responsibilities

The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter (https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html).

Disclaimer

Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.

In this course you may be asked to submit your coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. The final decision on the completion mode for a test or examination, and remote invigilation arrangements where applicable, will be advised to students at least 10 days prior to the scheduled date of the assessment, or in the case of an examination when the examination timetable is published.

Published on 19/12/2019 12:03 p.m.