Postgraduate Course: Visual Cultures (ARTX11017)
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 | 20 |
| Home subject area | Art |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Indicative course content
This module investigates methods and theories involved in the academic analysis of art, visual and material culture. It raises questions germane to analysis and research in Visual Culture, and draws on methodological and epistemological debates in cognate areas such as history, literary theory, social theory and anthropology. It is concerned with the analysis both of general methodological issues and also of specific texts representative of current discourses of analysis.
Aims of course
1 To examine the theoretical underpinnings of the practice of researching and analysing visual culture.
2 To encourage critical reflection on the process of research in general and on particular research in the field of visual culture.
3 To assist you in the articulation of academic discourses appropriate to your own academic aims and interests.
Mode of delivery
Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, e-learning, symposium visits |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Pre-requisites
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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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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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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. Publicly present a capacity to engage in the close critical reading of one or more texts and employ one or more current methods in the analysis of visual culture.
2. Apply ideas, techniques and theories drawn from intensive research to enhance your own critical and interpretative skills.
3. demonstrate an advanced ability to research and articulate a critical knowledge of one or more principle methods in the analysis of visual culture and subject one or more of those methods to critical scrutiny |
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
Indicative Bibliography
HARRIS, JONATHAN The New Art History (London, 2001) Visual Culture: The Reader, edited by JESSICA EVANS and STUART HALL. London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications in association with the Open University, 1999. Interpreting Visual Culture edited by IAN HEYWOOD and BARRY SANDYWELL, London ; New York : Routledge, 1999. Visual Culture edited by CHRIS JENKS. London ; New York : Routledge, 1995. ELKINS, JAMES Visual Studies. A Skeptical Introduction (London, 2004) |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 18 hours
Directed study 0 hours
Self-directed study 182 hours
Total 200 hours |
| Keywords | VISUAL CULTURE, AESTHETICS, VISUAL THEORY, REPRESENTATION, VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY, HISTORIOGRAPHY, LITE |
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