Postgraduate Course: TPG Visual Cultures (ARTX11037)
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 | 20 |
| Home subject area | Art |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This module investigates methods and theories involved in the academic analysis of contemporary art and visual culture. It raises questions germane to analysis and research in Visual Culture, and draws on methodological and epistemological debates in cognate areas such as history, literary theory, social theory and anthropology. It is concerned with the analysis both of general methodological issues and also of specific texts representative of current discourses of analysis.
Aims:
- To examine the theoretical underpinnings of the
practice of researching and analysing visual
culture.
- To encourage critical reflection on the process
of research in general and on particular
research in the field of visual culture.
- To assist you in the articulation of academic
discourses appropriate to your own academic
aims and interests. |
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 Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| No Exam 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 |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| 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. Identify and justify an aspect of Visual Culture for peer group research.
2. Working with your peers, become a contributing and commissioning editor of a publishing and commissioning venture.
3. Write a case study applying and assessing two or more appropriate methodologies for the study of Visual Culture. |
Assessment Information
Seminar Participation: Make a valuable and constructive contribution
to all tutorials and group seminars.
Project: Working with your peers, become a contributing and commissioning editor of the group blog and publish the results of your
research.
Essay: One Case Study based on the group research and bibliography of research sources. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
ELKINS, JAMES Visual Studies. A Skeptical
Introduction (London, 2004)
ELKINS, JAMES Visual Cultures, Intellect, 2010.
Visual Culture: The Reader, edited by JESSICA
EVANS and STUART HALL. London ; Thousand
Oaks : SAGE Publications in association with the
Open University, 1999.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas. 'An Introduction to Visual Culture',
Routledge, 2009.
Dikovitskaya, Margaret. 'Visual Culture: The Study of
the Visual After the Cultural Turn', MIT Press, 2006.
Dikovitskaya, Margaret. From Art History to Visual
Culture: The Study of the Visual after the Cultural
Turn, VDM Verlag, 2009.
Interpreting Visual Culture edited by IAN HEYWOOD
and BARRY SANDYWELL, London ; New York :
Routledge, 1999.
Rampley, Matthew. (ed.) Exploring Visual Culture,
Edinburgh University, 2005.
HARRIS, JONATHAN The New Art History,
Routledge, 2001.
Pink, Sarah. Doing Visual Ethnography, Sage, 2006.
Indicative Learning Resources:
MFA and Visual Culture Faculty, Moodle, Project
Space, Scottish ARI partners, Edinburgh libraries,
visitors. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Visual Culture, Aesthetics, Visual Theory, Representation, Visual Anthropology, Historiography, Lite |
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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