Postgraduate Course: TPG Practices (ARTX11027)
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 (Postgraduate) | 
Credits | 40 | 
 
| Home subject area | Art | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
| Course website | 
None | 
Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | This module enables you to reconsider your contribution to the field of contemporary art. Each year, three themes in contemporary theory and practice are identified for group research. The themes focus your consideration of contemporary art's increasingly diverse subject-matter, geographies,ecologies and processes. Crits and tutorials help you to critically re-assess your working methods and practices and to re-conceptualise and present your work in relation to this rapidly expanding field. | 
 
 
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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Co-requisites |  | 
 
| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  None | 
 
| 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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Learn enabled:  No | 
Quota:  None | 
 
	
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		Weeks | 
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		Wednesday | 
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| No Classes have been defined for this Course |  
| First Class | 
First class information not currently available |  
| No Exam Information | 
 
Learning Outcomes 
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:  
1. Prepare for and make constructive contributions to tutorials, crits and seminars focusing on the field of contemporary art. 
 
  
2. Critically re-assess, develop and re-structure your working methods, theories and practices. 
 
 
3. Regularly present the results of your research for the scrutiny of your tutors and peers.  | 
 
 
Assessment Information 
Seminar Participation 
Portfolio 
Research 
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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 | 
ELKINS, James ' Why Art Cannot Be Taught',University of Illinois Press, 2001. 
MADOFF, Steven Henry, Art School: (Propositions for the 21st Century), MIT Press, 2009. 
KOCUR, ZOYA. and LEUNG, SIMON. Theory in Contemporary Art: From 1985 to the Present, Blackwell Publishing, 2004. 
THORNTON, Sarah, Seven Days in Art World, Granta, 2008. 
TAYLOR, BRANDON. Art Today, Laurence King Publishing, 2004. 
FOWLE, KATE To Be Continued>: Contemporary Art Practice in Public Places, B.T. Batsford Ltd, 2003. 
RANCIERE, Jacques, The Future of the Image, Verso, 2009. 
VIRILLIO, Paul, 'Art and Fear', Continuum, 2003. 
JULIAN. Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art, Oxford University Press, 2004. 
DOHERTY, CLAIRE. Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation, London: Black Dog, 2004. | 
 
| Study Abroad | 
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| Study Pattern | 
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| Keywords | PGCert in Contemporary Art, School of Art | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Neil Mulholland 
Tel:  
Email: n.mulholland@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Mr Neale Summers 
Tel: (0131 6)51 5740 
Email: n.summers@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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