Undergraduate Course: Painting: landscape (LLLA07052)

Course Outline
School	Edinburgh College of Art	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	THIS IS A FOR-CREDIT ONLY COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED. Landscape as inspiration and source material is the focus for this course, enabling students to make mixed media studies and resolved paintings using the local rural environment and from personal drawn and photographic references. Exploiting the potential uses of inks, graphite, collage, acrylics and oils, students will explore a range of mark making techniques to develop their own expressive vocabulary to reveal a sense of place, mood and characteristics of rural environments using a range of compositional devices and techniques.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: 14
Course Start	Lifelong Learning - Session 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 27, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 71 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	This course will be assessed by the submission of a portfolio of visual art works within the discipline studied. This will include a selection of resolved art works, preparatory studies, visual research and evidence of a contextual awareness through a completed sketchbook and/or visual journal. The work must be presented in a clear and professional manner appropriate to the discipline. The submission should include work undertaken within the class as well as directed and independent study out with the class. Typically, this will comprise: - Class Contact hours: 27.5 (work undertaken during the class) - Directed hours: 27.5 (work the tutor has set students to each week in their own time) - Independent Study Hours: 45 (work students set themselves to do, relevant to the discipline studied) The combined submission will be assessed against the three learning outcomes for this course. These are equally weighted and each will be given a percentage grade. To pass, students must achieve a minimum of 30% in each learning outcome and an overall combined mark of 40% minimum.
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, through attending classes and engaging in directed and independent study, students should be able to: RESEARCH - achieve a confident and practiced approach to rural location drawing and research techniques PRACTICE - produce a number of studies and resolved paintings from sketches from landscape sources PRESENT - develop a personal visual language by experimenting with composition, colour and scale.