Undergraduate Course: Art and Environment (LLLA07035)
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 |
| Course website |
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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.
Environmental art stems from a historical engagement with the landscape through painting and also encompasses the scope of the urban landscape. This course will enable students to consider, through a range of art practices, how the growth of public art has stimulated artists to engage with a wider audience.
Initially students will explore, through project work, key areas such as human/animal relations, climate change and ecology, the city and globalization and the imagery of nature. Through a combination of research and studio practices using drawing, painting, mixed media and photography, students will directly engage with these issues as an entry point of study before developing their own position and ideas into a range of related artworks.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
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
develop the capacity for self-directed research and extend this into practical projects which consider the environmental and public artworks
PRACTICE
develop a range of research into their own practical projects, which is expressed through a contemporary drawing and painting language
PRESENT
produce a coherent body of practical work that synergises students¿ personal research of environmental themes into studio practices with a consideration of public art
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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 hours: 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 |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
Ability to make effective use of drawing and painting skills
Developing personal research skills in and out of studio
Ability to undertake research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of environmental art within visual culture
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| Reading list |
Recommended
KASTNER, J., WALLIS, B, 1998 Land and Environmental Art, London: Phaidon Press
ANDREWS, M., 1999, Landscape and Western Art Oxford: Oxford University Press
BAKER, B., 2000, The Postmodern Animal, Reading: Reaktion
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| 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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