Postgraduate Course: The Material Culture of the Islamic World in a Museum Context (HIAR11068)
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 | 20 |
| Home subject area | History of Art |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | After completion of their academic degree, many art students embark on professional careers that take them beyond a purely academic environment, be it as curators, collection management experts, museum educators or other relevant specialists. In order to apply their academic training meaningfully to their work environment, students often find themselves in need of a range of broader, practical core skills as well as contextual knowledge hat goes beyond their immediate academic specialisation. This course is designed to address some of the issues by revisiting the discipline of 'Islamic Art', a topic that for some time now has been moving ever more into focus with regard to professional opportunities, as new galleries and museums are being developed or at the planning stage worldwide.
The course will combine theoretical and practical components, starting off with a closer look at the academic discourse surrounding the definition of 'Islamic art' as a discipline, its historiography and contested definitions of 'contemporary Islamic art'. The focus will then shift back to the surviving material culture on which the discipline bases itself, concentrating in particular on the close analytical and interpretative engagement with an object as the prime clue and catalyst for intellectual investigation and the development of museological display/ exhibition concepts. To put the students' work into broader context, further topics will include a look at past and present approaches to temporary and permanent Islamic Art exhibition projects, new museum projects worldwide, the widening phenomenon of virtual museum initiatives and the issue of cross-cultural curatorship.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Students will gain understanding and the ability to decode the intellectual discourses surrounding the discipline of 'Islamic Art'
They will acquire a broad understanding of how their academic training can be meaningfully applied to a work environment
They will acquire a set of basic methodologies for physical and interpretative object analysis as well as broad investigation skills to pursue specific lines of professional enquiry
They will gain broad practical insights as well as contextual knowledge applicable to a range of relevant professional careers, particularly in the museum world
Students will gain confidence in developing basic project concepts related to Islamic art in a museum context
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Assessment Information
| 4000 word essay |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
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Course secretary | Mr Christopher Miller
Tel: 0131 221 6150
Email: c.miller@ed.ac.uk |
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