Postgraduate Course: TPG Material Cultures (ARTX11028)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 40 |
| Home subject area | Art |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This module explores some of the important concepts and theories associated with material culture. It will develop your understanding and appreciation of the ways objects and images are negotiated in Western society through tradition, ritual and ideology. Each session is themed around a particular popular cultural practice or ideology that is investigated in relation to the theories and discourses
of Material Culture. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Weeks |
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| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Demonstrate a highly developed command of visual literacy and an imaginative critical faculty.
2. Successfully engage your peers in discussions that articulate the relationships between material cultural practices and related theories
and discourses.
3. Apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to principle theories and discourses at the forefront of material culture studies. |
Assessment Information
Workbook/Sketchbook/Journal
Seminar Participation
Essay |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
Woodward, I, Understanding Material Culture, Sage, 2007.
Attfield, J, Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life, Berg, 2000.
Baudrillard, J. The System of Objects, Verso, 2005.
Appadurai, A. The Social Life of Things, Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Buchli, V. (ed) The Material Culture Reader, Berg, 2002.
Dant, Tim, Material Culture in the Social World: Values, Activities, Lifestyles, OUP, 1999.
Atfield, Judith. Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life, Berg, 2000.
Miller, D, Material Culture and Mass Consumption, Blackwell, 1987.
Miller, D. Stuff, Polity, 2009.
Tilley, C. (ed) The Handbook of Material Culture, SAGE, 2006
Turkle, S. Evocative Objects, Things We Think With, MIT, 2007. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Material Culture Cultural Studies Sensual Turns |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Neil Mulholland
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Course secretary | Mrs Chrystin Mcderment
Tel: 0131 221 6087
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