Postgraduate Course: Media and Culture (ARCH11002)
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 is an introduction to the intellectual context in which digital design and innovation takes place. The course provides an opportunity to immerse yourself in the dynamic and ever-changing, highly reflective world of digital media, and contribute with your own discoveries and insights. We encourage you to use blogs, videos and online social media to develop your thinking during the course.
Lecture sessions and discussion forums cover topics that will enable you to discuss the impact of digital technology ranging from its immediate practical application to the long term redefinition of the creative professions. The development of a broad cultural, social, psychological and philosophical understanding of the nature and role of information, metaphor and interaction 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 with digital media will be studied, which will provide the basis for focused discussions about how creative digital practice is developing or could develop. Sessions will therefore canvas issues such as creativity, the role of play, technoromanticism, concepts of language, typology, space, the body, the interactions between the senses, and emerging ideas about crowd sourcing, citizen journalism and digital activism. The course will also incorporate material on the practical, social, and cultural ramifications of digital media, and integrate the concerns of visual and aural cultures.
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| Course description |
The course delivers a programme of one-hour weekly content mostly provided online with a supporting programme of weekly two-hour group and class discussions for which some preparation is required in the form of advanced reading and reflection using online media.
This course is available via attendance at the university and by distance. Weekly tasks will mainly involving commenting on blog posts supplied by the course organiser and engaging in online discussions.
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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 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1)
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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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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) |
300-500 word abstract of the proposed essay to be submitted in week 5 for feedback (20% LO1 LO2 LO4); 3500 word essay on a theme drawn from the course. The essay includes a short creative reflection using digital media and is submitted by week 14 (80% of marks LO1 LO2 LO4). There will also be a weekly online task to assist in progress towards the essay (unmarked LO2 LO3). |
| Feedback |
Formative written feedback will be provided on the 300-500 word abstract within 15 days of submission. Feedback will include comment on how well the abstract demonstrates progress towards LO1, LO2 and LO4. Feedback on LO3 will be addressed throughout the semester in the context of the weekly online task, peer comment and intermittent tutor feedback. |
| 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 |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
1 hour tutorial |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Richard Coyne
Tel: (0131 6)50 2332
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Course secretary | Mr Ryan Farrell
Tel: (0131 6)51 7400
Email: |
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