Postgraduate Course: TPG Visual Cultures (ARTX11037)
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 | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This module investigates methods and theories involved in the academic analysis of contemporary art and visual culture. |
| Course description |
The course raises questions germane to analysis and research in Visual Culture, and draws on methodological and epistemological debates in cognate areas such as history, literary theory, social theory and anthropology. It is concerned with the analysis both of general methodological issues and also of specific texts representative of current discourses of analysis.
Aims:
- To examine the theoretical underpinnings of the practice of researching and analysing visual culture.
- To encourage critical reflection on the process of research in general and on particular research in the field of visual culture.
- To assist you in the articulation of academic discourses appropriate to your own academic aims and interests.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 3,
Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 30,
Online Activities 40,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
122 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Seminar Participation: Make a valuable and constructive contribution
to all tutorials and group seminars.
Essay: One Case Study based on the group research and bibliography of research sources.
Essay: One Case Study based on the group research and bibliography of research sources. |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Identify and justify an aspect of Visual Culture for peer group research.
- Working with your peers, become a contributing and commissioning editor of a publishing and commissioning venture.
- Write a case study applying and assessing two or more appropriate methodologies for the study of Visual Culture.
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Reading List
ELKINS, JAMES Visual Studies. A Skeptical
Introduction (London, 2004)
ELKINS, JAMES Visual Cultures, Intellect, 2010.
Visual Culture: The Reader, edited by JESSICA
EVANS and STUART HALL. London ; Thousand
Oaks : SAGE Publications in association with the
Open University, 1999.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas. 'An Introduction to Visual Culture',
Routledge, 2009.
Dikovitskaya, Margaret. 'Visual Culture: The Study of
the Visual After the Cultural Turn', MIT Press, 2006.
Dikovitskaya, Margaret. From Art History to Visual
Culture: The Study of the Visual after the Cultural
Turn, VDM Verlag, 2009.
Interpreting Visual Culture edited by IAN HEYWOOD
and BARRY SANDYWELL, London ; New York :
Routledge, 1999.
Rampley, Matthew. (ed.) Exploring Visual Culture,
Edinburgh University, 2005.
HARRIS, JONATHAN The New Art History,
Routledge, 2001.
Pink, Sarah. Doing Visual Ethnography, Sage, 2006.
Indicative Learning Resources:
MFA and Visual Culture Faculty, Moodle, Project
Space, Scottish ARI partners, Edinburgh libraries,
visitors. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Visual Culture,Aesthetics,Visual Theory,Representation,Visual Anthropology,Historiography,Lite |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr John Beagles
Tel: (0131 6)51 5909
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Jennifer Watson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
Email: |
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