Postgraduate Course: Curatorial Theories and Practices (ARTX11021)
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 | 10 |
| 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 is designed to help you to critically examine the documentation, display, distribution and consumption of contemporary art in order to assist you in the curation, promotion, and archiving of your masters show.
Aims of course
1 To enable you to professionally document the salient conceptual, material and technical values of your own practice to a broad and varied public audience.
2 To bring to a professional standard your understanding of how audio, visual, and object-based practices are experienced by discipline specific and general audiences within various public contexts
3 To enable you to develop the necessary communication and distribution skills required to reach your intended audiences and contexts.
Mode of delivery
Tutorial supervision |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Prohibited combinations
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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: 150 |
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| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
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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 |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| 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. RESEARCH Demonstrate a critical engagement with contemporary theories of display, distribution and consumption.
2. ANALYSIS Critically evaluate key strategies you have selected to document, display and distribute your own practice.
3. SYNTHESIS & COMMUNICATION Demonstrate to a professional standard your ability to creatively manage, structure, resolve and communicate these strategies through spoken, written and visual communication methods. |
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
To be established by the student in consultation with their personal tutors. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 10 hours
Directed study 0 hours
Self-directed study 90 hours
Total 100 hours |
| Keywords | TPG SCHOOL OF ART SEMESTER 3 / 5 |
Contacts
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