Undergraduate Course: Building Futures (ARTX10071)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Building Futures focuses on providing you with the professional skills, tools, knowledge and vocabulary to embark on personal career development. This includes considering how you can individually and collectively contribute professionally to the visual arts sector and/or creative industries. |
| Course description |
Students graduating with arts degrees have an active role in shaping the future of their profession. Building Futures has two aims: Firstly, to provide you with an understanding of what it means to work within the arts sector after graduation. This means going beyond the singular outcome of being an artist by discussing the range of options and ways of working Fine Art graduates can pursue. The course does this by equipping you with the skills, tools, professional knowledge and vocabulary needed to explore and propose routes for future activity and employment. Secondly, through both its form and content, Building Futures is intended to also foster collective and civic consideration of how your future will be shaped by your commitments to citizenship within and beyond the creative sector.
Building Futures will initially focus on familiarising you with current debates and practices within the creative and culture sector through lectures, seminars and research activities. Delivered across semester one, these sessions will orientate you in the field of professional practice and enable you to develop individual reflections and plans about how to approach issues raised on the course. In semester two, you will continue to have an applied engagement with these professional concerns, working collectively with peers to establish responses to these issues. On Building Futures, you will engage with fortnightly hour-long lectures and two-hour long seminars across the two semesters. This will include lectures from staff within the School of Art and visiting speakers representing different areas and bodies within the creative and cultural sector. Alongside this, you will be provided assigned resources to study in advance of seminars sessions in which you will engage group discussion and debate on key literature and perspectives impacting the sector. You will also receive periodic workshops with the course organiser and visiting professionals intended to prepare you for the summative components of assessment which will familiarise you with professional practices and expectations that current arts professionals navigate.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Apply their understanding of course resources to describe how they could practise within, or across, one or multiple professional contexts related to the arts sector or creative industries
- Evaluate their current capacities and future needs as a creative practitioner in relation to building a future for themselves and with others
- Work with others to manage complex ethical and professional issues to bring about change, development, or new thinking related to the future possibilities of their profession
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Reading List
Abbing, Hans. (2019) The Changing Social Economy of Art: Are the Arts Becoming Less Exclusive? Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Brook, Orion. et al. (2020) Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative industries. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Gerber, Alison. (2017) The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers. 1st edition. Redwood City: Stanford University Press.
Mathieu, Chris. (2012) Careers in Creative Industries. New York: Routledge.
Wohl, Hannah. (2021) Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Research and enquiry
You will investigate the broad critical and contextual dimensions of professional practices within the visual arts sector and more broadly creative industries to enhance your capacity to respond to current and emergent professional concerns and practices needed to be a creative practitioner.
Personal and intellectual autonomy
You will develop an awareness of how other students, alumni, professional artists, creative practitioners and organisations operate within the visual arts sector and creative industries and situate yourself in relation to these approaches and what you need to learn or develop to participate meaningfully in the field.
Personal effectiveness
You will work on your planning, organising and time management skills to aid you in the development of ideas through to proposed outcomes which will confirm your ability to select, use, or create relevant resources, structures and methods for professional practice beyond graduation.
Communication
You will be encouraged to communicate ideas and information in visual, oral and written forms about current ideas and debates related to professional practice within contemporary visual arts and the broader creative industries. |
| Keywords | Futuring,Professional Practice,Arts Sector,Creative Industries,Artist-Run,Career Development |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Jake Watts
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Course secretary | Mx Hannah Pennie Morrison
Tel: (0131 6)51 5763
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