Undergraduate Course: Visual Languages: Form, Function, Meaning (ARTX08010)
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 |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Indicative course content
This module aims to introduce students to a way of considering art objects in a broad visual context where great emphasis will be placed on the ability to draw comparisons, and arrive at personally determined choices and judgements.
Aims of course
1 To develop students understanding of the disparate nature of visual languages, and how these are affected by external agencies of time, space, location, culture etc.
2 To enhance students' confidence in applying a personally framed critique to objects which may be drawn from a wide range of cultural sources
3 To develop students' ability to draw comparisons in an interdisciplinary way so as to understand a cultural object in its contextual framework
Mode of delivery
Gallery based study day consisting of lecture, discussion, visit and supporting materials.
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.
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| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Full Year, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: 150 |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
16/09/2013 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Show a clear understanding of and an ability to analyse the ways in which art works are produced within a socially, culturally and historically determined framework
2. Demonstrate an ability to describe and analyse using a critical vocabulary informed by an understanding of art theory
3. Demonstrate confidence and fluency in written critical discussion, with confident use of references and quotations |
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
Core bibliography available on eportal. Subject specific bibliography attached to project brief for this module. Chris Murray (ed) Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (2002) Jonathan Harris Writing Back to Modern Art (2005) |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 30 hours
Directed study 30 hours
Self-directed study 40 hours
Total 100 hours |
| Keywords | VISUAL CONTEXT, COMPARISONS, WESTERN/NON WESTERN |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Joan Smith
Tel: (0131 6)51 5917
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Course secretary | Miss Annabelle Evans
Tel: (0131 6)51 5763
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