Postgraduate Course: Text and Context (CLLC11091)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course responds to the growing interest in visual media, practices of looking and reading, technological mediations of language and imagery, and tensions between the visual, linguistic and the literary texts. |
| Course description |
The course aims at interrogating the materiality and visibility of texts, positioning of the visible and material language signs within the theoretical and methodological approaches to studying cultures. The course examines the opposition of word and image and the notions of reading and text as privileged conceptual tools in theories of culture and society.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | minimum 7.0 IELST or equivalent |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the key approaches to studying writing and textual forms as well as historical, political, cultural contexts of writing traditions.
- Understand the impact of technologies on writing forms and cultural practices of writing.
- Conduct analysis of the graphic forms of writing, technologies used in the production of forms of the written word.
- Develop skills in relating theory to material manifestations of textual practices and graphic and spatial dimensions of textual artefacts.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | text and image,materiality and graphic forms of writing |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ella Chmielewska
Tel: (0131 6)51 3736
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Course secretary | Miss Jennifer Watson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
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