Postgraduate Course: Research Project (ARTX11011)
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 (n/a) |
Credits | 60 |
| Home subject area | Art |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Indicative course content
This module offers the opportunity to undertake wide-ranging and in-depth investigation into a particular subject and methodology. You are granted considerable freedom to select from areas studied within the taught PGDip programme, i.e. the fields of contemporary art, material culture, visual culture, critical theory and their organisational contexts. You must choose to follow either a conventional dissertation based approach or to a practice-led project.
Aims of course
1 To help you to identify and pursue theoretical and organisational issues appropriate to a specialist field of research in visual and cultural studies and provide you with the opportunity to pursue a specific theoretical and organisational issue of interest for in-depth analysis and practice.
2 To provide you with the skills to research, cost, propose, manage and undertake an extended analysis of the relevant discourses and practices concerning the reseach project and its validating contexts.
3 To enable you to creatively document your own project and to communicate a detailed and advanced knowledge of how you have engaged in a critical appraisal of the range of related theoretical contexts.
Mode of delivery
Tutorials and self-directed study |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Prohibited combinations
CV120004 MPhil Research Project |
| 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: No |
Quota: 150 |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Research: Identify a clearly defined and justified methodology for your Research Project and engage in advanced critical evaluation of a range of relevant sources.
2. Analysis: Exhibit a detailed and advanced knowledge of relevant theoretical debates concerning your Research Project, and an ability to engage in a creative critical analysis of the range of such debates both in relation to your project and to principal practices and discourses of your field.
3. Synthesis and Communication: Demonstrate a professional ability to manage, structure, resolve, design and communicate your own research both in visual and written form. |
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
The choice of submission type given must be made by the student at the start of the module. |
Special Arrangements
| This module replaces the following modules from the pre-semesterised CVCS TPG DPD: MA Dissertation MA Project MFA Thesis MFA Project |
Additional Information
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Indicative Bibliography
Blaxter, L et al. How to Research, Buckingham: OUP, 2001 Emmison, M. Researching the Visual, London, SAGE, 2000 NcNiff, Shaun. Art-Based Research London: Jessica Kingsley, 1998. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 4 hours
Directed study 0 hours
Self-directed study 596 hours
Total 600 hours |
| Keywords | MA AND MFA IN VISUAL & CULTURAL STUDIES |
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