Postgraduate Course: Reflective Practice 2 - Professional Development & Practice Planning 1 (ARCH11163)
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
As part of reflective practice emphasis is placed on relating self appraisal to the development of practice through individually planned objectives and targets, prompting the formulation and direction of personal practice. This aims to guide development of project management, organisation and pro-active working, interrelated with funding sources, networks and collaborative structures. This will be assessed as a rationalised portfolio of work as part of a final year review.
Aims of course
1 To enable you to manage research and critically document practice-led research
2 To critically evaluate and employ contemporary debates regarding practice-led research and cognate creative methodologies
3 Consolidate project work through critical appraisal of personal research themes consisting of methods of documenting, archiving and presenting emergent ideas.
Mode of delivery
tutorial support, ongoing 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 2, 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: use methods to review, restructure and develop practice in ways that are informed by a self critical, sustained and rigorous evaluation of personally driven work
2. Progression: consolidate further development and realisation of self generated research projects through a structured, transparent and advanced personal methodology
3. Planning: challenge established design precepts and assumptions, and propose and reflect upon appropriate directions of advanced personal practice and research |
Assessment Information
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Additional Information
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| Reading list |
Indicative Bibliography
ANDRE, CARL Sculpture 1958-1974. Bern Kunsthalle, 1975. AUSTIN, F Practice based research. Artist&©s Newsletter, April 5 1999 BACHELARD, GASTON The Poetics of Space. Beacon Press. 1994. BEIGEL, FLORIEN Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Machinic Landscape Lon. AA Pub 2003 BUCHLOH, BENJAMIN Carl Andre Hollis Frampton. '12 Dialogues 1962-1963'. The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Halifax. 1981. DAVIE, GEORGE ELDER The Democratic Intellect. The University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh. 1961. GILBERT, JEAN Legitimising sketchbooks as a research tool in an academic setting. Journal of Art and Design Education, vol 17 no.3 255-266, 1998 HOCKEY, J. Writing and making: Problems encountered by practice-based research degree students. Point, no.7, Spring / Summer. 38-43. 1999 SCHON, DONALD The Reflective Practitioner, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1983. STURKEN, M & CARTWRIGHT L. Practices of Looking, Oxford: OUP, 2001 WINKLER, ANTHONY Writing the Research Paper: a handbook, New York , 1994 |
| 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 ADVANCEMENT |
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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