Undergraduate Course: Evolving Contemporary Art Practices (LLLA07015)
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 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Lifelong Learning (ECA) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | THIS IS A FOR-CREDIT COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED.
This course will enable students, both individually and in collaboration, to consider and explore the relationship between critical thinking, visual research and studio practices to evolve their own contemporary art works. It will actively encourage and enable students to undergo their own ¿paradigm shift¿ and interrogate personal values and expectation of what constitutes art practices. Students will consider how contemporary artists are continually challenging the boundaries of art practice and its role and function within the society it operates and the ways it can be experienced. The course will introduce to students to the process by which artists acquire the appropriate skills to begin to articulate and express verbal ideas into engaging new visual forms or experiences.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, through attending classes and engaging in directed and independent study, students should be able to:
RESEARCH
Demonstrate critical thinking and research skills which show confidence and competence in understanding the professional requirements of successful art practice.
PRACTICE
Show a confident and articulate ability to understand, evaluate, record and analyse individual creative practice in context.
PRESENT
Demonstrate an ability to work with a peer group to advance ideas and develop individual projects/agendas.
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Assessment Information
This course will be assessed by the submission of a portfolio of visual art works within the discipline studied. This will include a selection of resolved art works, preparatory studies, visual research and evidence of a contextual awareness through a completed sketchbook and/or visual journal. The work must be presented in a clear and professional manner appropriate to the discipline. The submission should include work undertaken within the class as well as directed and independent study out with the class. Typically, this will comprise:
Class Contact hou
rs: 27.5 (work undertaken during the class)
Directed hours: 27.5 (work the tutor has set students to each week in their own time)
Independent Study Hours: 45 (work students set themselves to do, relevant to the discipline studied)
The combined submission will be assessed against the three learning outcomes for this course. These are equally weighted and each will be given a percentage grade. To pass, students must achieve a minimum of 30% in each learning outcome and an overall combined mark of 40% minimum.
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
Ability to demonstrate an understanding of how to employ critical thinking to explore a subject or idea
Ability to formulate personal research approaches
Ability to deploy ideas and methods to developing creative ideas
Ability to undertake research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of contemporary art practice within visual culture
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| Reading list |
Recommended
Sullivan, G., 2010, Art Practice as research : Inquiry in the visual arts, Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications
MCNIFF, S., 1998, Art-based Research, London: Jessica Kingsley
GRAY, C., 2004, Visualizing research : a guide to the research process in art and design, Farnham: Ashgate
COLEY, N., 1997, Urban Sanctuary a public art work, Edinburgh: Stills Gallery
(VIDEO) 2004, John Virtue London Paintings (video recording)
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
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Course secretary | Ms Sherrey Landles
Tel: (0131 6)50 3003
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