I achieved 72% overall with scores as follows in the individual criteria:
Demonstration of Subject Based Knowledge and Understanding: 18
Excellent knowledge and understanding of subject and context
Demonstration of Research Skills 19
Excellent range of research from a wide range of
sources, excellent design and implementation of
research project where appropriate
Demonstration of Critical & Evaluation Skills 18
Excellent critical skills, demonstrating a well
developed intellectual understanding and analytical
ability.
Communication 17
Very good communication of ideas and knowledge
Overall Comments
You
have produced a very interesting body of essays and research that demonstrates
your excellent understanding of key ideas developed alongside your choice of
topics. Your communication of an argument around
the deconstruction of an image was very good, moving forward consider expanding
the core of your subject so as to maintain your focus on the key aspect of your
essay, this was evident in your very interesting consideration of your
'manipulated' digital photography in assignment 5. Your learning log contained
an excellent range of research, continue to explore wide aspects of visual
culture as you have done throughout the course.
A good
result - I share on the blog so hopefully others may get a feel for the
assessment standards. It is not intended as a self-congratulatory exercise,
though am very pleased with the result, the best of the three modules studied
in Part 1.
This
has given me confidence to continue with the course, especially as the new
Level 2 Landscape course is much more about reading and understanding
the history of landscape photography. This is an approach that I prefer, rather
than simply taking 'great pictures'. It provides more intellectual stimulation.
UVC will be an excellent base, both because of the reduced emphasis on the
practicalities of photography and the corresponding increase in the
intellectual understanding, and because some of the course is very relevant to
the new Landscape course. A good example of this is the second exercise
in Chapter 1 of Landscape: read an essay by Rosalind Krauss on Pohotogrpahy's Discursive Spaces that happens
to be included in Visual Culture: the reader, one of the standard texts
for UVC.
