Postgraduate Course: Reflective Practice 1 - Professional Development 1 (ARCH11162)
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 | Architecture and Landscape Architecture |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Indicative course content
Reflecting the aims of ASN, students will explore contemporary issues of cross-disciplinary practice and theory. In this module students will consolidate their experience and define, collect and analyse in greater depth the basis of their practice-led investigations. Inherent in this process is the need to develop the ability to document, archive and professionally present your research explorations and recurrent themes of interest.
Aims of course
1 to develop research material that communicates a progression of ideas
2 Expand the student&©s knowledge base through lectures, seminars and studio discourse, allied with practice based workshops and short field works.
3 Prompt, through a plan of practice, how the student will structure and develop their practice
Mode of delivery
Ongoing project and portfolio review |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Pre-requisites
none
Co-requisites
none
Prohibited combinations
none |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: 150 |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Reflection: assemble research information from areas of personal interest and develop an individual method of archiving and presenting explorations and findings
2. Porgression: articulate the transition of individual research explorations through exhibition and critical dialogue with peer groups and invited audiences
3. Planning: evolve systems of working which enable practice to be continuously underpinned and informed by personal research |
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
Indicative Bibliography
BANHAM, REYNER Los Angeles. The Architecture of Four Ecologies. University of California Press. 2001. BLAXTER, L et al, How to research, Buckingham: OUP, 2001 BROADIE, ALEXANDER The Tradition of Scottish Philosophy. Polygon. Edinburgh. 1990. BOHM, DAVID Science Order and Creativity. Routledge. London. 1988. BURNS, R.B. Introduction to research methods London: SAGE, 2000 CARVER, NORMAN Form and Space of Japanese Architecture. Shokokusha. Tokyo. 1955. EMMECHE, CLAUS The Garden in the Machine Princeton University Press NJ 1994 GRAY, CAROLE Vizualizing Research: A Guide to the research process in Art and Design, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. MCNIFF, SHAUN Art-based Research London : Jessica Kingsley, 1998 SULLIVAN, GRAEME Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts, London: SAGE, 2005. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 15 hours
Directed study 85 hours
Self-directed study 100 hours
Total 200 hours |
| Keywords | SELF CRITICAL EVALUATION, PRACTICE PLANNING |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Gordon Ross Mclean
Tel:
Email: r.maclean@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Elaine Dickson
Tel: 0131 221 6286
Email: e.dickson@ed.ac.uk |
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