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DRPS : Course Catalogue : Edinburgh College of Art : Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Postgraduate Course: Text and Context (CLLC11091)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaArchitecture and Landscape Architecture Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis course responds to the growing interest in visual media, practices of looking and reading, technological mediations of language and imagery, and tensions between the visual, linguistic and the literary texts. It aims at interrogating the materiality and visibility of texts, positioning of the visible and material language signs within the theoretical and methodological approaches to studying cultures. The course examines the opposition of word and image and the notions of reading and text as privilaged conceptual toolsin theories of culture and society.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesminimum 7.0 IELST or equivalent
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?Yes
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1) Learn enabled:  Yes Quota:  15
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 13/01/2014
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 15, Formative Assessment Hours 4, Summative Assessment Hours 15, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 140 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
No Exam Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
students will have:
- a knowledge of the key approaches to studying writing and textual forms as well as historical, political, cultural contexts of writing traditions.
- understanding of the impact of technologies on writing forms and cultural practices of writing.
- ability to conduct analysis of the graphic forms of writing, technologies used in the production of forms of the written word.
- developed skills in relating theory to material manifestations of textual practices and graphic and spatial dimensions of textual artefacts.
Assessment Information
One in-class presentation (accompanied by a report and an annotated bibliography) and a project consisting of a written component of approximately 3,000 words and a visual component in a chosen form.

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
Keywordstext and image, materiality and graphic forms of writing
Contacts
Course organiserDr Ella Chmielewska
Tel: (0131 6)51 3736
Email: Ella.Chmielewska@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Lyndsay Hopes
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
Email: Lyndsay.Hopes@ed.ac.uk
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