Postgraduate Course: Culture and the Arts in Post-war Scotland (PGHC11425)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Since the Second World War, culture and the arts have occupied increasingly visible and important roles in Scottish society. The introduction of state funding for the arts through the Arts Council of Great Britain, increased leisure time arising from a range of wider social and economic changes, and effects of the upheavals and challenges of the 1960s resulted in culture becoming a significant part of local and Scottish-national government policy. |
| Course description |
Since the Second World War, culture and the arts have occupied increasingly visible and important roles in Scottish society. The introduction of state funding for the arts through the Arts Council of Great Britain, increased leisure time arising from a range of wider social and economic changes, and effects of the upheavals and challenges of the 1960s resulted in culture becoming a significant part of local and Scottish-national government policy. During the same period, the arts became a crucial space in which to test out, express and challenge ideas about and representations of Scots and Scotland. This class explores culture and the arts in relation to changing practices of the arts and ideas about the role of culture in society, broader social change, and debates around Scottish national identity. It covers key concepts, themes and developments in culture and the arts in the period c. 1945-1997, including the creation and development of cultural policy, the challenges and upheavals of the 1960s, and the growing use of culture in urban regeneration and city branding. Students will have the opportunity to examine a range of dramatic performances, theatres, visual arts, films and television programmes, and arts festivals. By exploring these interactions between the arts and society, students will develop new perspectives on the history of post-war Scotland.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate a detailed and critical command of the body of knowledge concerning culture and the arts in post-war Scotland, including policy developments and debates, changing practices in the arts, and the relationships between the arts and society;
- Demonstrate in seminars an ability to analyse and reflect critically upon relevant scholarship concerning developments in culture and the arts in post-war Scotland, primary source materials relating to policy, practice and debate on the arts, and conceptual discussions about the meanings and roles of culture in society;
- Demonstrate the ability to develop and sustain original scholarly arguments in oral and written form in seminar discussions and presentations by independently formulating appropriate questions and utilising relevant evidence considered in the course;
- Demonstrate in seminar discussions, presentations, and assessment originality and independence of mind and initiative; intellectual integrity and maturity; an ability to evaluate the work of others, including peers; and a considerable degree of autonomy.
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Reading List
Bartie, A., The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013)
Bartie, A. & E. Bell, The International Writers' Conference Revisited: Edinburgh, 1962. Glasgow: Cargo Publishing, 2012
Bell, E. & L. Gunn (eds.), The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? (Rodopi: Amsterdam, 2013)
Cowan, E. J. (ed.), The People's Past: Scottish Folk. Scottish History (Edinburgh: E.U.S.P.B., 1980)
Galloway, S. and H.D. Jones, 'The Scottish dimension of British arts government: a historical perspective', Cultural Trends, 19:1 (2010), 27-40
Hewison, R., Too Much: Art and Society in the Sixties, 1960-75 (London: Methuen, 1986)
Hutchinson, D., The Modern Scottish Theatre (Glasgow: The Molendinar Press, 1977)
McArthur, E., Scotland, CEMA and the Arts Council, 1919-1967: Background, Politics and Visual Art Policy (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2012)
Maley, W., 'Representing Scotland in the 1970s', in B. Moore-Gilbert (ed.), The Arts in the 1970s: Cultural Closure (London: Routledge, 1994), 78-98 |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Culture,Arts,Post-war,Scotland |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Angela Bartie
Tel: 0131 650 3768
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Course secretary | Mrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
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