Postgraduate Course: Professional Practice (Sculpture) - Postgraduate (ARTX11004)
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 |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Indicative course content
This programme element will develop your professional awareness and ability to demonstrate it at a level commensurate with international standards of art practice. A key objective of this element is to build your confidence and proficiency in collating, promoting and disseminating information to your peers and to a broad range of audiences.
Aims of course
1 To enhance your ability to professionally document and disseminate work in the art world and related contexts.
2 To develop your organisational, exhibition, and publicity skills.
3 To enhance your ability to communicate your practice effectively using visual, verbal and other means to a wide range of audiences.
Mode of delivery
Studio-based, Tutorials,Visitor's Talks, Exhibitions, Project Space, Portfolio, Presentation. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
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| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Demonstrate an advanced ability to make exhibition applications and proposals and to organise, publicise and document your practice and exhibition involvement.
2. Through the medium of a short report, an advanced ability to analyse and critically examine your own practice.
3. An advanced ability to communicate effectively your research and practice through a presentation of your work in progress to your peers and invited audience. |
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
Not entered |
Special Arrangements
| Refer Postgraduate Handbook |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Indicative Bibliography
BERRY, Cicely. Your voice and how to use it : the classic guide to speaking with confidence, Virgin, 1994. MALOUF, Doug. How to create and deliver a dynamic presentation Brookvale, N.S.W. : Simon & Schuster Australia, 1988. Speaking your mind : oral presentation and seminar skills / edited by Rebecca STOTT, Tory YOUNG, and Cordelia BRYAN. Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, 2001. MANDEL, Steve. : Effective presentation skills, Menlo Park, Calif. : Crisp Publications, c1993. LEIGH, Andrew. The perfect presentation : all you need to get it right first time. London : Random House Business, 1999. AUDIO ARTS. : Jeff Koons talks to Adrian Searle : talking art [audiocassette] LEWELL, John. Multivision : the planning, preparation and projection of audio-visual presentations. Published: Focal, 1980. NAPIER, H. Albert, Mastering and using Microsoft PowerPoint XP. Introductory course / H. Albert Napier and Philip J. Judd. Cambridge, Mass.: London : Course Technology, 2001. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 5 hours
Directed study 15 hours
Self-directed study 80 hours
Total 100 hours |
| Keywords | PROFESSIONAL, ORGANISE,DOCUMENT, DISSEMINATE |
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