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Postgraduate Course: Visual Cultures (AREA11025)

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) Credits20
Home subject areaArt Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionPLEASE NOTE: THIS COURSE IS OWNED AND ADMINISTRATED BY ECA

Synopsis
This module investigates methods and theories
involved in the academic analysis of art, design,
visual communcation 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
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)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, students 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
Individual Presentation:
One 20 minute oral presentation + 1,000 words summary.

Essay One: 3,000 words paper + bibliography of research sources.
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsVisual Culture, Aesthetics, Visual Theory, Representation, Visual Anthropology, Historiography, Lite
Contacts
Course organiserDr Neil Mulholland
Tel: (0131 6)51 5881
Email: n.mulholland@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Elaine Dickson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5737
Email: e.dickson@ed.ac.uk
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