Postgraduate Course: Exposition Theories and Contexts (DESI11019)

Course Outline
School	Edinburgh College of Art	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	This course is only available to students in the School of Design. Indicative course content This course is designed to help you to critically examine the documentation, display, distribution and consumption of contemporary design in relation to your final masters work. Aims of course 1 To enable you to professionally document the salient conceptual, material and technical values of your own practice to a broad and varied public audience. 2 To bring to a professional standard your understanding of how audio, visual and object-based practices are experienced by discipline specific and general audiences within various public contexts. 3 To enable you to develop the necessary communication and distribution skills required to reach your intended audiences and contexts. Mode of delivery tutorial supervision
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	Pre-requisites Appropriate SCQF Level 10 Qualification or equivalent. Co-requisites MA - DESI11012, DESI11013, DESI11015, DESI11016, DESI11018, MFA - DESI11012, DESI11013, DESI11014, DESI11015, DESI11016, DESI11017, DESI11018
Additional Costs	course materials and study trips

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Feedback/Feedforward Hours 10, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 88 )
Additional Information (Learning and Teaching)	Summative assessment is by portfolio submission
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Assessment plan Not entered
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10, Other Study Hours 88, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 0 )
Additional Information (Learning and Teaching)	Self directed study
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Assessment plan Not entered
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: 150
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Feedback/Feedforward Hours 10, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 88 )
Additional Information (Learning and Teaching)	Summative assessment is by portfolio submission
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Assessment plan Not entered
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: RESEARCH: Demonstrate a critical engagement with contemporary theories of display, distribution and consumption. ANALYSE: Critically evaluate key strategies you have selected to document, display and distribute your own practice. SNYTHESISE & COMMUNICATE: Demonstrate to a professional standard your ability to creatively manage, structure, resolve and communicate these strategies through spoken, written and visual communication methods.