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Undergraduate Course: Visual Research 4 (20 credit) (ARTX10035)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
Summary

This course will consolidate an enhanced understanding of critical reflection in relation to methods of information gathering and editing of resources appropriate to your specialism.


Course description

Drawing on a focused body of resources and visual material you will define a personal perspective in relation to your work.

Aims
1. To engage critically in specialist visual research in relation to art practice.
2. To build on and enhance an understanding of research that underpins a self-motivated approach to studio practice.
3. To identify appropriate materials, methods and processes of research within the context of your own work and current practice.


Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Artistic Research - Themes and Methods (ARTX10048) AND Contemporary Artistic Research (ARTX10051)
Co-requisites Students MUST also take: Art Practice 4 (ARTX10038) AND Presentation: Methods & Context 4 (ARTX10037) AND Visual Culture Research Project (40 credit) (ARTX10040)
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements This course is only available to students on a Degree Programme in the School of Art.
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Full Year
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 2, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 10, Formative Assessment Hours 3, Summative Assessment Hours 3, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 178 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Assessment is formative at end of Semester 1 and summative at end of Semester 2.
Research report- This report should detail at least two bodies of work.  It should articulate how an artwork has been arrived at. How did you start? What did you look at? What processes did you use?  What context are you working in? What are your methods? The report is therefore a synthesis of what you looked at. It could include sections from notebooks, your own writing (descriptive and reflective) It is not everything that you looked at during a semester but what you looked at in relation to a work you completed. It is the narrative (both visual and textual) of a body of work. You will need 1 of these reports and the word count is 500 words. Useful formats for the presentation of these reports could be illustrator (its great for combining word and image, or VUE (downloadable from Tufts University) which is particularly good for integrating digital resources. Equally this report could be paper collage and hand written text. The format should be chosen to reflect your working processes.
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Investigate: Present evidence of a critical understanding of key practices and methods that underpin a substantial project(s).
  2. Reflect: Demonstrate an ability to reflect on the impact of visual research on a considered body of work.
  3. Apply: Demonstrate a professional ability to apply a sophisticated clearly defined body of research in the support of studio practice.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Self Directed Study, Collaboration, Negotiation, Technical methods, Critical evaluation.
KeywordsResearch,Historic and current art practice,visual documentation,critical evaluation,proposals
Contacts
Course organiserMr Stuart Bennett
Tel: (0131 6)51 5875
Email:
Course secretaryMiss Catriona Morley
Tel: (0131 6)51 5763
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