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Undergraduate Course: Evolving Contemporary Art Practices (LLLA07015)

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 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) Credits10
Home subject areaLifelong Learning (ECA) Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionTHIS IS A FOR-CREDIT COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED.

This course will enable students, both individually and in collaboration, to consider and explore the relationship between critical thinking, visual research and studio practices to evolve their own contemporary art works. It will actively encourage and enable students to undergo their own ¿paradigm shift¿ and interrogate personal values and expectation of what constitutes art practices. Students will consider how contemporary artists are continually challenging the boundaries of art practice and its role and function within the society it operates and the ways it can be experienced. The course will introduce to students to the process by which artists acquire the appropriate skills to begin to articulate and express verbal ideas into engaging new visual forms or experiences.

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 Lifelong Learning - Session 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Learn enabled:  No Quota:  16
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 13/01/2014
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 98 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
No Exam Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, through attending classes and engaging in directed and independent study, students should be able to:

RESEARCH
Demonstrate critical thinking and research skills which show confidence and competence in understanding the professional requirements of successful art practice.

PRACTICE
Show a confident and articulate ability to understand, evaluate, record and analyse individual creative practice in context.

PRESENT
Demonstrate an ability to work with a peer group to advance ideas and develop individual projects/agendas.
Assessment Information
This course will be assessed by the submission of a portfolio of visual art works within the discipline studied. This will include a selection of resolved art works, preparatory studies, visual research and evidence of a contextual awareness through a completed sketchbook and/or visual journal. The work must be presented in a clear and professional manner appropriate to the discipline. The submission should include work undertaken within the class as well as directed and independent study out with the class. Typically, this will comprise:
Class Contact hou
rs: 27.5 (work undertaken during the class)
Directed hours: 27.5 (work the tutor has set students to each week in their own time)
Independent Study Hours: 45 (work students set themselves to do, relevant to the discipline studied)

The combined submission will be assessed against the three learning outcomes for this course. These are equally weighted and each will be given a percentage grade. To pass, students must achieve a minimum of 30% in each learning outcome and an overall combined mark of 40% minimum.
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Ability to demonstrate an understanding of how to employ critical thinking to explore a subject or idea
Ability to formulate personal research approaches
Ability to deploy ideas and methods to developing creative ideas
Ability to undertake research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of contemporary art practice within visual culture
Reading list Recommended
Sullivan, G., 2010, Art Practice as research : Inquiry in the visual arts, Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications
MCNIFF, S., 1998, Art-based Research, London: Jessica Kingsley
GRAY, C., 2004, Visualizing research : a guide to the research process in art and design, Farnham: Ashgate
COLEY, N., 1997, Urban Sanctuary a public art work, Edinburgh: Stills Gallery
(VIDEO) 2004, John Virtue London Paintings (video recording)
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMr Robbie Bushe
Tel:
Email: r.bushe@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Sherrey Landles
Tel: (0131 6)50 3003
Email: s.landles@ed.ac.uk
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