SRA743 - Critical Futures
Unit details
| Year: | 2022 unit information |
|---|---|
| Important Update: | Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Last updated: 4 March 2022 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Waterfront (Geelong) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Mirjana Lozanovska |
| Prerequisite: | SRR723 students commencing prior to 2022 NIL |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 1 x 2 hour class per week, 1 x 1 hour seminar per week |
Content
The unit examines the critical role of architecture in the 21st century with the aim to gain understanding of the history and theory of architecture, learning about the past in order to understand architecture’s futures. The unit structure is a set of themes of critical contemporary concern including - accelerated urbanism, a global history of architecture (western and non-western), traditional/reconstructed place, histories of environments and ecologies, and image. Each theme examines historical trajectories in the 20th Century as foundation, developing informed perspectives on the profound changing conditions of society.
Core to the unit is how architecture participates in contemporary societal challenges informed by understanding its historical trajectories. The unit engages with advanced research methodologies in the application of ‘critical tools’ – reading, writing and analysis – in order to develop intellectually complex and ethical positions in relation to the production of architecture and environments in a global world.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Identify an appropriate framework and method for the analysis of critical issues in architecture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Locate, evaluate and synthesise relevant information from current and scholarly literature sources. | GLO2: Communication |
| ULO3 | Collaborate with others to communicate perspectives about current literature, and architectural and urban projects to an audience of their peers. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO4 | Justify an ethical position based upon the research of global and diverse contemporary architectural projects. | GLO6: Self-management |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment Task 1: Exercises and structured bibliography | Weekly collaborative summary report | 40% | Weekly |
| Assessment Task 2: Critical essay | 3,500-4,000 word essay | 60% | Week 12 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SRA743 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
Unit Fee Information
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