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Postgraduate Course: Exposition Theories and Contexts (DESI11019)

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 11 (Postgraduate) Credits10
Home subject areaDesign Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis course is only available to students in the School of Design.

Indicative course content
This course is designed to help you to critically examine the documentation, display, distribution and consumption of contemporary design in relation to your final masters work.

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)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements Pre-requisites
Appropriate SCQF Level 10 Qualification or equivalent.

Co-requisites
MA - DESI11012, DESI11013, DESI11015, DESI11016, DESI11018,
MFA - DESI11012, DESI11013, DESI11014, DESI11015, DESI11016, DESI11017, DESI11018
Additional Costs course materials and study trips
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2011/12 Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond, Not available to visiting students (SS1) WebCT enabled:  No Quota:  None
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
Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 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. ANALYSE: Critically evaluate key strategies you have selected to document, display and distribute your own practice.
3. SNYTHESISE & COMMUNICATE: 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
Not entered
Special Arrangements
This course is only available to students in the School of Design.
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Indicative Bibliography
to be established by the student in consultation with their tutor
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Contact hours 10 hours
Directed study 0 hours
Self-directed study 90 hours
Total 100 hours
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Juliette Macdonald
Tel: 0131 221 6196
Email: juliette.macdonald@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Neale Summers
Tel:
Email: n.summers@ed.ac.uk
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