Postgraduate Course: Cultural Turns (ARTX11018)
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 engages with the re-evaluation of popular culture, a reconsideration of the meaning and scope of the $łaesthetic,&© and an engagement with numerous other concerns outside the traditional domain of Critical Theory, such as geography, museology, cultural studies, design and visual culture, and gender studies. Central to the module is thus a tracking of the rise of discourses in response to the perceived inadequacy of Critical Theory in the face of contemporary society and culture.
Aims of course
1 To undertake an analysis of discourses that emerged in the wake of Critical Theory and offer a detailed examination of central arguments involved in the rise of such discourses.
2 To consider how such discourses can inform a critical account of current visual culture.
3 To undertake a detailed examination of certain key texts and assist you in the honing of skills of close critical reading and analysis.
Mode of delivery
Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, e-learning, Conferences and Symposia |
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 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. 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 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 culture and subject one or more of those methods to critical scrutiny |
Assessment Information
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Indicative Bibliography
FROW, JOHN. Cultural Studies and Cultural Value, Oxford, 1995. GELDER, Ken. The Subcultures Reader, London : Routledge, 1997. The cultural studies reader / edited by Simon During. Published: London : Routledge, 1993. Cyber Reader: Critical Writings for the Digital Era / edited by NEIL SPILLER. London ; New York : Phaidon, 2002. JOHNSTON, RONALD JOHN. Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World in the Late Twentieth Century, Blackwell, 1995. |
| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 18 hours
Directed study 0 hours
Self-directed study 182 hours
Total 200 hours |
| Keywords | CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY, MUSEOLOGY, CULTURAL STUDIES, DESIGN HISTORIES, GENDER STUDIES, METAHISTORY, CYBE |
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