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DRPS : Course Catalogue : Edinburgh College of Art : Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Postgraduate Course: Everyday Cultures (ELCC11001)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course examines the concepts of the everyday as it figures in a range of theoretical texts and as it has been developed in recent work in cultural studies, sociology, geography and other fields.
Course description Students will be introduced to some of the philosophical traditions within which the concept has been articulated, and will gain some understanding of the anthropological and sociological traditions in which it has been deployed as an analytic tool.

Similarly, the concept of culture will be subjected to critical analysis and we will seek to understand something of the wide range of contexts across which it acquires its meanings, with particular emphasis on spatial consequences.

These theoretical reflections will culminate in an essay in which students will seek to undertake a critical and theoretically informed analysis of an area of everyday culture with which they are familiar; each student will be given individual guidance with their project.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Essential course texts
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22, Formative Assessment Hours 4, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 170 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Assignment A (30%)
Mid-semester Assignment - 4000 word essay (70%)
[This assignment can vary each year according to course needs, course diaries, topic synopsis, small-scale project etc.)


Feedback In addition to tutorials to support assignments, course organiser/tutor will provide:

1. Feedback during semester time (typically around week 8) in response to mid-semester Assignment A.
2. Summative feedback to the completed essay.
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the principle theories used to analyse and interpret the city and everyday culture.
  2. Critically review, consolidate and extend knowledge, skills, practices, and thinking in analysing the city and its everyday life.
  3. Apply a range of standard and specialised research and/or visualisation and other media instruments and techniques of enquiry and communication.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Tahl Kaminer
Tel: (0131 6)50 2319
Email:
Course secretaryMrs Lyndsay Hagon
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
Email:
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