KYD110 Art, Text and Context
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| Unit code: | KYD110 |
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| Equivalent(s): | KYB110 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,704 |
| International unit fee | $4,944 |
Unit Outline: College 1 2026, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KYD110 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KYB110 |
| Coordinator: | Genine Larin | g.larin@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit introduces you to the critical contexts of creative works and practices including:
- how they make meaning,
- their varying contexts,
- how they circulate, and
- how these might change over time
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an introductory knowledge of applied analytical methods used in the critical analysis of creative texts, contexts, and practices.
- Compare and communicate an understanding of the key aesthetic, conceptual and technical ideas that underpin a range of creative practices.
- Identify and discuss the importance of diverse approaches to and contexts of creative practice, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
- Develop an applied understanding of evidence-based research and communication skills in the conventions of academic writing.
Content
Ideas explored in this unit include:
- some of the key aesthetic, conceptual and technical ideas that underpin a range of creative practice disciplines;
- the descriptive and analytical vocabulary for your creative practice discipline;
- various approaches to the critical analysis of creative works and practices;
- what it means to be a critical viewer/reader/listener/artist;
- different and diverse perspectives of various creative forms and practices, including the contribution that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and thinkers have made across a range of disciplines.
- introduction to the concept of art as a reflection of and impetus for personal, social, cultural and environmental change
Learning Approaches
This unit takes a flipped approach to learning and teaching. You will be provided with eContent and weekly scheduled classes. eContent will be provided on your Canvas site for you to self-directedly engage with before your classes. It could include videos, readings, self-reflection and/or peer activities designed to enhance your learning experience. During your weekly classes you will further explore the key concepts in a collaborative environment where your voice is valued. After your weekly classes, you should continue to engage with unit resources to ensure you consolidate your understanding of unit content.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback on your progress in this unit will be provided in various ways, including:
- general comments provided verbally in class
- feedback from peers in your tutorials
- general comments provided via the unit's Canvas website
- comments about individual progress included on criteria sheets for summative assessment
Assessment
Overview
There are three assessments for this unit: a professional artistic manifesto early in your semester, a critical analysis, and an essay. Assessments 2 and 3 require you to analyse and draw conclusions with evidence drawn from research.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Professional Manifesto
You will develop a professional manifesto that informs your artistic engagement by utilising some of the key concepts and methods underpinning the critical analysis of creative texts, contexts, and practices.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Critical Analysis
This assessment item requires you to work with a small group to present a critical analysis and contextualisation of a particular creative work. There is an individual and group component. This assessment is authentic because the ability to critically analyse creative works drawing from diverse cultural contexts is a core component of working as creative and cultural producers, commentators and critics.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Essay
This assessment item requires you to draw on the ideas attained across the semester and apply in a formal piece of academic writing. Your essay will be structured around key focus questions that will be provided and will be anchored in the work of a selected practitioner, company or collective that will be introduced in lectures and tutorials.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Other
Resource materials for this unit will be supplied on Canvas and via Readings.
Risk Assessment Statement
Please be advised that this unit may include the presentation and scholarly analysis of material and subject matters that may be considered confronting, such as certain representations of race, class, gender and violence. QUT counselling support is available should you feel the need to avail yourself of these services.
Unit Outline: College 2 2026, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KYD110 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KYB110 |
Overview
This unit introduces you to the critical contexts of creative works and practices including:
- how they make meaning,
- their varying contexts,
- how they circulate, and
- how these might change over time
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an introductory knowledge of applied analytical methods used in the critical analysis of creative texts, contexts, and practices.
- Compare and communicate an understanding of the key aesthetic, conceptual and technical ideas that underpin a range of creative practices.
- Identify and discuss the importance of diverse approaches to and contexts of creative practice, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
- Develop an applied understanding of evidence-based research and communication skills in the conventions of academic writing.
Content
Ideas explored in this unit include:
- some of the key aesthetic, conceptual and technical ideas that underpin a range of creative practice disciplines;
- the descriptive and analytical vocabulary for your creative practice discipline;
- various approaches to the critical analysis of creative works and practices;
- what it means to be a critical viewer/reader/listener/artist;
- different and diverse perspectives of various creative forms and practices, including the contribution that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and thinkers have made across a range of disciplines.
- introduction to the concept of art as a reflection of and impetus for personal, social, cultural and environmental change
Learning Approaches
This unit takes a flipped approach to learning and teaching. You will be provided with eContent and weekly scheduled classes. eContent will be provided on your Canvas site for you to self-directedly engage with before your classes. It could include videos, readings, self-reflection and/or peer activities designed to enhance your learning experience. During your weekly classes you will further explore the key concepts in a collaborative environment where your voice is valued. After your weekly classes, you should continue to engage with unit resources to ensure you consolidate your understanding of unit content.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback on your progress in this unit will be provided in various ways, including:
- general comments provided verbally in class
- feedback from peers in your tutorials
- general comments provided via the unit's Canvas website
- comments about individual progress included on criteria sheets for summative assessment
Assessment
Overview
There are three assessments for this unit: a professional artistic manifesto early in your semester, a critical analysis, and an essay. Assessments 2 and 3 require you to analyse and draw conclusions with evidence drawn from research.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Professional Manifesto
You will develop a professional manifesto that informs your artistic engagement by utilising some of the key concepts and methods underpinning the critical analysis of creative texts, contexts, and practices.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Critical Analysis
This assessment item requires you to work with a small group to present a critical analysis and contextualisation of a particular creative work. There is an individual and group component. This assessment is authentic because the ability to critically analyse creative works drawing from diverse cultural contexts is a core component of working as creative and cultural producers, commentators and critics.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Essay
This assessment item requires you to draw on the ideas attained across the semester and apply in a formal piece of academic writing. Your essay will be structured around key focus questions that will be provided and will be anchored in the work of a selected practitioner, company or collective that will be introduced in lectures and tutorials.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Other
Resource materials for this unit will be supplied on Canvas and via Readings.
Risk Assessment Statement
Please be advised that this unit may include the presentation and scholarly analysis of material and subject matters that may be considered confronting, such as certain representations of race, class, gender and violence. QUT counselling support is available should you feel the need to avail yourself of these services.
Unit Outline: College Summer 2026, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KYD110 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KYB110 |
Overview
This unit introduces you to the critical contexts of creative works and practices including:
- how they make meaning,
- their varying contexts,
- how they circulate, and
- how these might change over time
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an introductory knowledge of applied analytical methods used in the critical analysis of creative texts, contexts, and practices.
- Compare and communicate an understanding of the key aesthetic, conceptual and technical ideas that underpin a range of creative practices.
- Identify and discuss the importance of diverse approaches to and contexts of creative practice, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
- Develop an applied understanding of evidence-based research and communication skills in the conventions of academic writing.
Content
Ideas explored in this unit include:
- some of the key aesthetic, conceptual and technical ideas that underpin a range of creative practice disciplines;
- the descriptive and analytical vocabulary for your creative practice discipline;
- various approaches to the critical analysis of creative works and practices;
- what it means to be a critical viewer/reader/listener/artist;
- different and diverse perspectives of various creative forms and practices, including the contribution that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and thinkers have made across a range of disciplines.
- introduction to the concept of art as a reflection of and impetus for personal, social, cultural and environmental change
Learning Approaches
This unit takes a flipped approach to learning and teaching. You will be provided with eContent and weekly scheduled classes. eContent will be provided on your Canvas site for you to self-directedly engage with before your classes. It could include videos, readings, self-reflection and/or peer activities designed to enhance your learning experience. During your weekly classes you will further explore the key concepts in a collaborative environment where your voice is valued. After your weekly classes, you should continue to engage with unit resources to ensure you consolidate your understanding of unit content.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback on your progress in this unit will be provided in various ways, including:
- general comments provided verbally in class
- feedback from peers in your tutorials
- general comments provided via the unit's Canvas website
- comments about individual progress included on criteria sheets for summative assessment
Assessment
Overview
There are three assessments for this unit: a professional artistic manifesto early in your semester, a critical analysis, and an essay. Assessments 2 and 3 require you to analyse and draw conclusions with evidence drawn from research.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Professional Manifesto
You will develop a professional manifesto that informs your artistic engagement by utilising some of the key concepts and methods underpinning the critical analysis of creative texts, contexts, and practices.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Critical Analysis
This assessment item requires you to work with a small group to present a critical analysis and contextualisation of a particular creative work. There is both an individual and group component. This assessment is authentic because the ability to critically analyse creative works drawing from diverse cultural contexts is a core component of working as creative and cultural producers, commentators and critics.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Essay
This critical essay assessment item requires you to draw on the ideas attained across the semester and apply in a formal piece of academic writing. Your essay will be structured around key focus questions that will be provided, and will be anchored in the work of a selected practitioner, company or collective that will be introduced in lectures and tutorials.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Other
Resource materials for this unit will be supplied on Canvas and via Readings.
Risk Assessment Statement
Please be advised that this unit may include the presentation and scholarly analysis of material and subject matters that may be considered confronting, such as certain representations of race, class, gender and violence. QUT counselling support is available should you feel the need to avail yourself of these services.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.IF06 Diploma in Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad, coherent theoretical knowledge for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations in the Creative Industries sector
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, Professional Manifesto, Essay - Apply critical and creative thinking, digital literacy and problem solving skills to identify, analyse and evaluate a range of authentic creative enterprise issues
Relates to: Critical Analysis, Essay - Communicate effectively using a range of forms across different professional settings and diverse audiences.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO4 - Apply leadership and teamwork skills to work productively with others in addressing real-world challenges
Relates to: Critical Analysis