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Postgraduate Course: MFA Visual Culture Research Methods (ARTX12001)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 12 (n/a) Credits20
Home subject areaArt Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionIndicative course content
This module will introduce the rigours and possibilities of postgraduate research in visual culture. A variety of research methodologies and approaches will be discussed, along with the possible aims and outcomes different approaches may lead to. The broad themes of the course are designed to encourage you to critically re-examine the production, distribution and consumption of your research and present your ideas in a conference organised by you and your peers.

Aims of course
1 To introduce you to a variety of research methods appropriate to the study visual culture at doctoral level and generate an awareness of the links between contexts, theory, practice and creative graduate research in a wider sense.
2 To encourage interdisciplinary approaches and an enthusiasm for theoretical and practical experimentation based on rigorous research skills.
3 To enable you to learn from cross-disciplinary communication both systematically and creatively, and familiarise you with a range of practical and theoretical research methods applicable to researchers in the field of visual culture.

Mode of delivery
Lectures, Seminars, Workshops, Student-led conference
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements Pre-requisites
MFA Thesis or MFA Project

Co-requisites
MFA Thesis or MFA Project

Prohibited combinations
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Show a critical understanding of, make use of two or more innovative research methodologies that you reason are appropriate to your own research.
2. Demonstrate, in the form of a Research Proposal, how you will review, restructure and develop your work in ways that are informed by original and creative research.
3. Display imagination, resourcefulness and substantial initiative in communicating your planned research with colleagues working in your own and in other disciplines.
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
Not entered
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Indicative Bibliography
Blaxter, L. et al, How to Research, Buckingham: OUP, 2001. Burns, R. B. Introduction to Research Methods London: SAGE, 2000. Gray, C. Vizualizing Research: A Guide to the research process in Art and Design, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Schon, D. The Reflective Practitioner, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1983. Sullivan, G. Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts, London: SAGE, 2005. NcNiff, Shaun. Art-based Research London : Jessica Kingsley, 1998.
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Contact hours 16 hours
Directed study 0 hours
Self-directed study 184 hours
Total 200 hours
KeywordsNot entered
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