Postgraduate Course: Material Cultures (ARTX11016)
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 | 40 |
| Home subject area | Art |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Indicative course content
This module explores some of the important concepts and theories associated with material culture. It will develop your understanding and appreciation of the ways objects and images are negotiated in Western society through tradition, ritual and ideology. Each session is themed around a particular popular cultural practice or ideology that is investigated in relation to the theories and discourses of Material Culture.
Aims of course
1 To explore our culture&©s everyday and formal negotiations with the objects and images around us.
2 To undertake a systematic analysis of the principal theories and discourses of material culture.
3 To contextualise the theories and discourses of material culture in terms of popular cultural practice.
Mode of delivery
Lectures, seminars, tutorials, e-learning |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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| 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: No |
Quota: None |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Demonstrate a highly developed degree of visual literacy and an imaginative critical faculty.
2. Successfully present and lead group discussions articulating the relationships between popular material cultural practices and related theories and discourses.
3. Apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to principle theories and discourses at the forefront of material culture studies. |
Assessment Information
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| Reading list |
Indicative Bibliography
Appadurai, A. The Social life of things, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986 Attfield, J Wild things: the material culture of everyday life, Oxford: Berg, 2000. Buchli, V. (ed) The material culture reader, Oxford: Berg, 2002. Dant, Tim, Material culture in the social world: values, activities, lifestyles Buckingham: OUP, 1999. Miller, D, Material culture and mass consumption, Oxford: Blackwell, 1987. Tilley, C et al (eds) The Handbook of Material Culture, London:SAGE, 2006 |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 38 hours
Directed study 0 hours
Self-directed study 362 hours
Total 400 hours |
| Keywords | MATERIAL CULTURE, CULTURAL STUDIES, DESIGN HISTORY |
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