Postgraduate
Communications & Arts
Our Communications & Arts teaching and research programs are connected to local and global communities through a range of industry projects, exhibitions, performances and creative collaborations.
This unique interaction has enabled us to establish professional affiliations with a number of partners, allowing students the opportunity to engage with industry across a range of disciplines and professions.
I've had to challenge my own perceptions and it's made me grow as a person.
This course offered me freedom. I was able to choose units that reflected my interests, strengths and background, so it felt like my course.
Being at a university where so many different schools of knowledge exist and so many activities take place, means that you can enjoy a richer uni life. And being involved with other projects has allowed me to gain more skills that are otherwise outside the scope of my degree, but make me a much more able person.
Now I'm ready to take on almost anything!
Master of Innovative Technology student, Marziya Mohammedali.
Spectrum Project Space
Spectrum Project Space (SPS), situated in Northbridge, is our contemporary art space - a gallery in which ideas are explored and creative outputs celebrated.
Spectrum holds a regular exhibition program with students and staff contributing to Perth's vibrant art scene, allowing students critical dialogue with the arts profession. For more information refer to the SPS website.
Specialist facilities & services
Our Communications and Arts students have access to a state of the art education environment.
There's 24x7 access to our artists' studios', edit suites, computer labs with printing facilities and latest software.
The very best digital and analogue professional video, audio and photographic equipment is also available for loan from our on-campus Media Store.
Students experience photojournalism in action
16 students completing studies in Photomedia participated in the inaugural Summer School program in Bangladesh in January 2008. The students worked in collaboration with students from Pathshala, an institution which trains local Bangladeshi students in photojournalism.
Each ECU student completed a photojournalist project which explored the impact of climate change in Bangladesh, a country which is particularly vulnerable to the effects of global warming and climate change.
Students travelled to locations throughout Bangladesh to compile a comprehensive, yet intimate vision of people living with the realities of global warming.
The students work was exhibited at Spectrum Project Space (SPS). SPS is a continuing initiative of the School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University.
ECU Lecturer shortlisted for Commonwealth Writer's Prize
The regional shortlists for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award and Best First Book Award have been announced, with ECU lecturer Dr Marcella Polain's novel, The Edge of the World, shortlisted for the Best First Book award.
Four international judging panels in each Commonwealth region; Africa; Canada and the Caribbean, Europe and South Asia; and South East Asia and South Pacific selected nominees from an impressive list of 320 entries.
Dr Polain, a course coordinator for the Writing & Editing disciplines, is among six writers short listed in the South East Asia and South Pacific region.
Published in 2007 by Fremantle Press, Dr Polain's novel is a powerful story about family, genocide, emigration and exile. Order The Edge of the World from ECU Bookshop >>
ECU alumni and ECU lecturers featured in 2008 FotoFreo Festival
FotoFreo is a biennial international festival of photography. It showcases the work of photographers to generate an awareness of and a discussion about their work. Photographic works by several ECU alumni and ECU staff were featured in the 2008 exhibition, including:
- I Like Roses - a tribute to the life and work of ECU alumnus, Allan Radich
- Hijacked - curated by ECU Alumnus, Mark McPherson
- Landlines - features work by School of Communication and Arts Photomedia lecturers Kevin Ballantine, Duncan Barnes, Max Pam and Norm Leslie
See our students' work
See Communication & Arts students' work in our online galleries: