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Postgraduate Course: TPG Practices (ARTX11027)

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) Credits40
Home subject areaArt Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis module enables you to reconsider your contribution to the field of contemporary art. Each year, three themes in contemporary theory and practice are identified for group research. The themes focus your consideration of contemporary art's increasingly diverse subject-matter, geographies,ecologies and processes. Crits and tutorials help you to critically re-assess your working methods and practices and to re-conceptualise and present your work in relation to this rapidly expanding field.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Learn enabled:  No Quota:  None
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 16/09/2013
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 400 ( Lecture Hours 10, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 28, Fieldwork Hours 16, Online Activities 40, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 297 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Prepare for and make constructive contributions to tutorials, crits and seminars focusing on the field of contemporary art.


2. Critically re-assess, develop and re-structure your working methods, theories and practices.


3. Regularly present the results of your research for the scrutiny of your tutors and peers.
Assessment Information
Seminar Participation
Portfolio
Research
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list ELKINS, James ' Why Art Cannot Be Taught',University of Illinois Press, 2001.
MADOFF, Steven Henry, Art School: (Propositions for the 21st Century), MIT Press, 2009.
KOCUR, ZOYA. and LEUNG, SIMON. Theory in Contemporary Art: From 1985 to the Present, Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
THORNTON, Sarah, Seven Days in Art World, Granta, 2008.
TAYLOR, BRANDON. Art Today, Laurence King Publishing, 2004.
FOWLE, KATE To Be Continued>: Contemporary Art Practice in Public Places, B.T. Batsford Ltd, 2003.
RANCIERE, Jacques, The Future of the Image, Verso, 2009.
VIRILLIO, Paul, 'Art and Fear', Continuum, 2003.
JULIAN. Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art, Oxford University Press, 2004.
DOHERTY, CLAIRE. Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation, London: Black Dog, 2004.
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsPGCert in Contemporary Art, School of Art
Contacts
Course organiserDr Neil Mulholland
Tel: (0131 6)51 5881
Email: n.mulholland@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Susan Mitchell
Tel: (0131 6)51 5743
Email: Susan.Mitchell@ed.ac.uk
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