Undergraduate Course: Visual Communication 2 (ARTX08035)
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 8 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Art |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This Course allows students to further develop skills in the concepts and outcomes of visual communication, through, for example, illustration, animation or graphic design. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | art materials |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Full Year, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Weeks |
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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. Display a considered approach to research as it underpins individual practice in visual communication
2. Demonstrate confidence and confidence in handling relevant media to develop visual communication project(s)
3. Show competence and a considered approach to the selection and presentation of work for assessment at this level |
Assessment Information
| Portfolio submission which should include research and evidence of the developmental process leading to examples of resolved work: 100% |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Students will be asked to consider what is meant by visual communication and how this differs from art based projects: this differentiation and the subsequent consideration of audience/client needs to be thoroughly researched along with the background ideas for projects. Students should consider the relationship between what they wish to communicate and the method they choose to do this as well as how their own research ideas fit in to a particular process. |
| Syllabus |
Students may choose to undertake this Course in illustration, graphic design, animation or other means of visual communication and will attend relevant classes to support their choice of project. Group crits and tutorials will support studio based work and help develop core skills in research and resolution of ideas. |
| Transferable skills |
skills in research and development of ideas; skills in communication of concepts to others; skills in developing self motivated projects as well as in working to a brief; practical skills in numeracy, planning and visual and verbal languages |
| Reading list |
reading lists related to individual student projects will be developed |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Students will undertake 200 hours of study of which 50 will be Contact Hours and 50 Directed study. The remaining 100 hours allow students to undertake self directed study. |
| Keywords | visual communication research |
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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