Undergraduate Course: Form and Space 2 (ARTX08003)
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 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Art |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Indicative course content
Students will further explore the creative potential of three dimensional form, considering issues such as installation and site, the use of appropriate materials and scale. Students may make maquettes as part of the process of visualisation and research.
Aims of course
1 To help students understand the interrelationship between the finished work and the critical thinking and research undertaken as part of its development.
2 To develop increased understanding of the technical and theoretical approaches to form and space and to foster sensitivity to the properties of materials in a given context.
3 To undertake a more considered approach to the ways in which the particular body of work covered in this module could be presented.
Mode of delivery
Studio-Based, Demonstration, Email Assistance, Group Crit, Individual Mentoring, Review, Tutorial
This course is only available to students on BA Combined Studies (School of Art). |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | This course is only available to ECA students on degree programmes belonging to the School of Art. |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Display a considered approach to research and the development of an individual and original body of work.
2. Demonstrate a competent level of skills in the handling of a range of mixed media materials to further consider responses to surface, scale and geometry
3. Show competence and a considered approach to the selection and presentation of work for assessment at this level. |
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
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Special Arrangements
| This course is only available to students on BA Combined Studies (School of Art). |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
Indicative Bibliography
Ben Tufnell Land Art 2006 Richard Bright James Turrell - Eclipse 1999 Mark Rosenthal Understanding Installation Art : From Duchamp to Holzer London : Prestel, 2003. FOWLE, KATE To Be Continued>: Contemporary Art Practice in Public Places, B.T. Batsford Ltd, 2003. text by Alberto Fiz Anthony Gormley published by Electa Milan 2007 Athena T Spear Brancusi's Birds published by NY University Press 1969. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 60 hours
Directed study 10 hours
Self-directed study 30 hours
Total 100 hours |
| Keywords | THREE DIMENSIONAL FORM, INSTALLATION, MAQUETTE |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Joan Smith
Tel: (0131 6)51 5917
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Course secretary | Ms Claire Davies
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