Postgraduate Course: Media and Culture (Online Distance Learning) (ARCH11080)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This is an introduction to the issues that surround the emergence of digital design today. Online lectures and discussions cover topics that enable students to discuss the impact of digital technology from its immediate practical application to the long term redefinition of the design professions. The development of a broad social and psychological understanding of the nature and role of information, metaphor and interface will also form an important component of the course. Key texts by thinkers who have contributed new ideas and generated fresh debate about living and working in the digital age will be studied, which will provide the basis for focused discussions about how digital design is developing or could develop. Sessions will therefore be devoted to the major concepts and theoretical approaches which have a bearing on the practice of digital design, canvassing issues such as technological determinism, utopianism, technoromanticism, concepts of language, typology, space and the body informed by digital technology. The course will also incorporate lectures on the practical social, legal and cultural ramifications of digital media: usability, intellectual property and the popular media. |
| Course description |
Classes will be delivered in conjunction with a cohort of students resident in Edinburgh. Lecture content will be delivered via online media. Seminars and tutorials will be delivered via live video links to classes as available, and via recordings of class meetings. Students will also have access to selected meetings amongst the distance cohort, and at times to be agreed.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
| Course Start Date |
21/09/2015 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 11,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Revision Session Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
171 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
3500 word essay on a theme drawn from the course. Topic to be discussed with teachers and decided by week 3. Abstract (1-2 pages) submitted week 5 (20% of marks). Final essay submitted week 14 (70% of marks). A weekly online quiz designed to test comprehension of the lecture content that will carry 1 mark per week if passed (10%) |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Contextualise developments in digital media, technologies and devices in terms of critical theoretical and philosophical debate
- Formulate and communicate coherent opinion and insight on key aspects of digital media and culture
- Apply digital social media in its various forms to present and respond to discussion and debate about digital media
- Write to a suitable standard, deploying the conventions of academic scholarship, including the appropriate use of evidence, sources and references
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
This course will be taught entirely by distance learning. Lectures will be available online (as streamed audio or video, possibly live, but also recorded). Handbooks, notes and other materials originated by the teaching team will be available online. Online discussions using various technologies will be facilitated. Assessment will be via written submissions, submitted electronically. |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
This course will be taught entirely by distance learning. Lectures will be available online (as streamed audio or video, possibly live, but also recorded). There will be no set hours for required attendance at class sessions. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Richard Coyne
Tel: (0131 6)50 2332
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Emma Binks
Tel: (0131 6)51 5740
Email: |
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