Postgraduate Course: MFA Exhibition and Portfolio (Drawing and Painting) (ARTX12005)
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 12 (n/a) | 
Credits | 40 | 
 
| Home subject area | Art | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
| Course website | 
None | 
Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | Indicative course content 
The culmination of the MFA level of the programme. Planning, preparation and presentation of work in an exhibition. 
 
Aims of course 
1 To enhance an ability to effectively present a body of work in a professional manner to a wide audience. 
2 To critically review and consolidate organisational and exhibition strategies 
3 To present an autonomous position for a critical art practice. 
 
Mode of delivery 
Studio Based, Exhibition, Installation, Q digital, Library, | 
 
 
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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Co-requisites |  | 
 
| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  Pre-requisites  
Summer Study, Research-Led Practice, Critical Study 
 
Co-requisites  
Summer Study, Research-Led Practice, Critical Study 
 
Prohibited combinations  
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| Additional Costs |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |   
Learning Outcomes 
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:  
1. Demonstrate a significant ability to integrate appropriate exhibition/installation strategies in relation to a nominated audience/s  
2. Demonstrate a consolidated position for the research focus within exhibited work 
3. Employ a range of methods to synthesise individual positions which extends contemporary practice  | 
 
 
Assessment Information 
Assessment plan 
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Special Arrangements 
| None |   
 
Additional Information 
| Academic description | 
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| Syllabus | 
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| Transferable skills | 
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| Reading list | 
Indicative Bibliography  
Contemporary art : from studio to situation / edited by Claire Doherty. Published:  London : Black Dog Pub., c2004.  From margin to center : the spaces of installation art. Published:  Cambridge [Mass] : MIT Press, 2000.  Conceptual art and the politics of publicity / Alexander Alberro. Published:  Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003. | 
 
| Study Abroad | 
Not entered | 
 
| Study Pattern | 
Contact hours 15 hours 
Directed study 120 hours 
Self-directed study 265 hours 
Total 400 hours | 
 
| Keywords | EXHIBITION, DOCUMENTATION, ART PRACTICE | 
 
 
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