Postgraduate Course: TPG Material Cultures (ARTX11028)
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 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 40 |
| Home subject area | Art |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This module explores some of the important concepts and theories associated with material culture. It will develop your understanding and appreciation of the ways objects and images are negotiated in Western society through tradition, ritual and ideology. Each session is themed around a particular popular cultural practice or ideology that is investigated in relation to the theories and discourses
of Material Culture. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
16/09/2013 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Lecture Hours 2,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 30,
Online Activities 40,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
319 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Demonstrate a highly developed command of visual literacy and an imaginative critical faculty.
2. Successfully engage your peers in discussions that articulate the relationships between material cultural practices and related theories
and discourses.
3. Apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to principle theories and discourses at the forefront of material culture studies. |
Assessment Information
Workbook/Sketchbook/Journal
Seminar Participation
Essay |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Woodward, I, Understanding Material Culture, Sage, 2007.
Attfield, J, Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life, Berg, 2000.
Baudrillard, J. The System of Objects, Verso, 2005.
Appadurai, A. The Social Life of Things, Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Buchli, V. (ed) The Material Culture Reader, Berg, 2002.
Dant, Tim, Material Culture in the Social World: Values, Activities, Lifestyles, OUP, 1999.
Atfield, Judith. Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life, Berg, 2000.
Miller, D, Material Culture and Mass Consumption, Blackwell, 1987.
Miller, D. Stuff, Polity, 2009.
Tilley, C. (ed) The Handbook of Material Culture, SAGE, 2006
Turkle, S. Evocative Objects, Things We Think With, MIT, 2007. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Material Culture Cultural Studies Sensual Turns |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Neil Mulholland
Tel: (0131 6)51 5881
Email: n.mulholland@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Susan Mitchell
Tel: (0131 6)51 5743
Email: Susan.Mitchell@ed.ac.uk |
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