Undergraduate Course: History of Art Critical Portfolio (HIAR10025)
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 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 40 |
| Home subject area | History of Art |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/fineart |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course invites penultimate-year students to adopt the role of art critic. During the first semester, students are expected to review four temporary exhibitions of their choice, preferably taking place in public venues in Scotland. The reviews should each be 750 words (total 3,000 words). In the second semester, they produce a retrospective essay of 3-4,000 words documenting their experience as an art critic. The essay will explain what their criteria were for reviewing exhibitions and how they devised them; what the problems were in this type of exercise and their long-term benefits. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
History of Art 2 (HIAR08008)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Full Year, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
15/09/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
390 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| This course gets students out of the seminar room and into the public exhibition gallery. It challenges them to think and write about art historical issues from a different perspective to that of the art historian. It enables them to dispense with some of the traditional baggage of art historical writing (such as essays, references and bibliography) and to find their own critical voice. The essay requires them to articulate the challenges they face in taking-on the Critical Portfolio. The critic's task is nowhere usefully defined, so one of the key outcomes of the project is for students to decide what it involves. In part, this will be based on their practical experience. But they will also engage with the literature about and around the critical tradition: from Diderot in the Salon to Sewell in the Standard. The critical faculties and journalistic writing this course requires gives students a fresh perspective on art history and its writings. |
Assessment Information
In first semester: four reviews of 750 words
In second semester: essay of 3-4,000 words |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Dominic Paterson
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Course secretary | Mrs Sue Cavanagh
Tel: (0131 6)51 1460
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