Undergraduate Course: 3d Research and Practice: Exploration and Innovation (ARTX09054)
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 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) | 
Credits | 20 | 
 
| Home subject area | Art | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
| Course website | 
None | 
Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | Indicative course content 
Using a range of self generated sources students will further explore personal and innovative responses in the creation of a substantial body of three-dimensional work supported by thorough research. 
 
Aims of course 
1    To foster a fully developed understanding of the interrelationship between the finished work and the critical thinking and research undertaken as part of its development.     
2 To engage in further development of self initiated work consolidating interdisciplinary skills in three-dimensions. 
3 To foster professional and well considered approaches in the presentation of work created in this module.   
 
Mode of delivery 
Studio-Based, Demonstration, Email Assistance, Group Crit, Individual Mentoring, Review, Tutorial | 
 
 
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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Co-requisites |  | 
 
| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  This course is only available to ECA students on degree programmes belonging to the School of Art. | 
 
| Additional Costs |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13  Full Year, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 
  
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Learn enabled:  No | 
Quota:  150 | 
 
	
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| No Classes have been defined for this Course |  
| First Class | 
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Learning Outcomes 
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:  
1. Show evidence of a high level of originality and a distinct personal language in finished work and the research which supports it.  
2. Demonstrate a highly developed command of skills, processes and techniques used in working with, and synthesising, a range of materials 
3. Show professionalism, good judgement and a highly considered approach to the selection and presentation of a resolved body of work for assessment.  | 
 
 
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  
Ben Tufnell Land Art  2006  Richard Bright James Turrell $ú Eclipse  1999;  text by Alberto Fiz Anthony Gormley published by Electa Milan 2007  Sol leWitt Structures 1962-1993  Museum of Modern Art Oxford 1993 ISBN 0 9058 36 782  Hal Foster & Dick Reinartz Richard Serra: Torqued Spirals, Toruses and Spheres 2002;  Peter Randall-Page : sculpture and drawings 1977-1992 essays by James Hamilton Marina Warner; catalogue raisonne compiled by Clive Adams. Published by Henry Moore Centre | 
 
| Study Abroad | 
Not entered | 
 
| Study Pattern | 
Contact hours 80 hours 
Directed study 40 hours 
Self-directed study 80 hours 
Total 200 hours | 
 
| Keywords | THREE DIMENSIONAL, TECHNICAL AND CONCEPTUAL SKILLS | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Ms Joan Smith 
Tel: 0131 221 6031 
Email: joan.smith@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Ms Claire Davies 
Tel:  
Email: claire.davies@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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