Postgraduate Course: Visual & Cultural Research Methods (ARTX11015)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (n/a) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Art |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Indicative course content
This module will introduce the rigours and possibilities of postgraduate research in visual culture. A variety of research methodologies and approaches will be discussed, along with the possible aims and outcomes different approaches may lead to. The broad themes of the course are designed to encourage you to critically re-examine the production, distribution and consumption of your research and present your ideas in a conference organised by you and your peers.
Aims of course
1 To introduce you to a variety of research methods appropriate to the visual and cultural studies at doctoral level and generate an awareness of the links between contexts, theory, practice and creative graduate research in a wider sense.
2 To encourage interdisciplinary approaches and an enthusiasm for theoretical and practical experimentation based on rigorous research skills.
3 To enable you to learn from cross-disciplinary communication both systematically and creatively, and familiarise you with a range of practical and theoretical research methods applicable to researchers in the field of visual and cultural studies.
Mode of delivery
Lectures, Seminars, Workshops, Student-led conference |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Show a critical understanding of, make use of two or more innovative research methodologies that you reason are appropriate to your own research.
2. Demonstrate, in the form of a Research Proposal, how you will review, restructure and develop your work in ways that are informed by original and creative research.
3. Display imagination, resourcefulness and substantial initiative in communicating your planned research with colleagues working in your own and in other disciplines. |
Assessment Information
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| Reading list |
Indicative Bibliography
Blaxter, L. et al, How to Research, Buckingham: OUP, 2001. Burns, R. B. Introduction to Research Methods London: SAGE, 2000. Gray, C. Vizualizing Research: A Guide to the research process in Art and Design, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Schon, D. The Reflective Practitioner, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1983. Sullivan, G. Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts, London: SAGE, 2005. NcNiff, Shaun. Art-based Research London : Jessica Kingsley, 1998. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 16 hours
Directed study 0 hours
Self-directed study 184 hours
Total 200 hours |
| Keywords | MFA VISUAL CULTURE AND MPHIL VISUAL & CULTURAL RESEARCH |
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