Undergraduate Course: Expression and Abstraction (LLLA07138)
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 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
Home subject area | Lifelong Learning (ECA) |
Other subject area | None |
Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
Course description | THIS IS A FOR-CREDIT ONLY COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED
This course enables students to develop their own expressive language, exploring greater expressive abstract approaches to drawing and painting.
Through group and individual tuition, students will initially research and develop their own starting points. Students will explore a variety of taught and self-directed techniques to reveal and sustain abstract concerns derived from their own source material and research, underpinned by an understanding of composition and structure.
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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 Lifelong Learning - Session 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: 12 |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
Course Start Date |
13/01/2014 |
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 27,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
71 )
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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. RESEARCH
Research and consider a range historically and contemporary approaches to visual abstraction using drawing and painting techniques
2. PRACTICE
explore both taught and self directed techniques which develop a structured approach which consider the use of expressive abstraction
3. PRESENT
develop and present a coherent series of related artworks which creatively explore a personal, expressive abstraction.
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Assessment Information
This course will be assessed by the submission of a portfolio of visual design works within the discipline studied. This will include a selection of resolved design 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.
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 make effective use of drawing and painting skills
Ability to create expression, mood and character through observational practice
Understanding of composition and design
Ability to undertake research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of painting within visual culture |
Reading list |
Collings, M. and Flowers East, 2001, British Abstract Painting 2001, Albany, USA: Momentum
Bayrle, T., 2002, Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, London: Phaidon Publishing
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Study Abroad |
Not entered |
Study Pattern |
Typically, the course is delivered in weekly taught sessions of between 2.5 and 3 hours for 9-11 weeks or for 5-6 hour weekly sessions for 5 weeks.
Class Contact hours: 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) |
Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
Tel:
Email: r.bushe@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Sherrey Landles
Tel: (0131 6)50 3003
Email: s.landles@ed.ac.uk |
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