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Undergraduate Course: Individual Practice and Shared Meaning: case studies in contemporary art and design (ARTX09062)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryIndicative course content
This module will allow students to make sophisticated choices in terms of the focus for their own directed study which will complement the material covered in the lectures, seminars, workshops or gallery visits associated with the module. Using the taught material as a framework, students will be able to pursue individually selected and approved topics for study, thus enabling a relatively high degree of autonomy, appropriate at this level.

Aims of course
1 To enable students to develop advanced skills in critical analysis and expression at this level
2 To enable students to draw on a body of knowledge acquired through a variety of ways (lectures, seminars, gallery and exhibition visits, personal research via libraries, archives, interviews, and the internet) and to offer new conclusions about contemporary art and design practice
3 To enable students to demonstrate clearly an awareness of the imperatives of a cultural framework beyond the western

Mode of delivery
Gallery based study day consisting of lecture, discussion, visit and supporting materials.

This course is only available to students on BA Combined Studies (School of Art).
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements This course is only available to students enrolled on BA Combined Studies (School of Art).
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate confidence in making personally determined choices of an area of study with direct relevance to the student's own interests
  2. Show an ability to construct sophisticated and fluent discussions, drawing on a broad range of previously acquired knowledge
  3. Demonstrate an ability to discuss art within an appropriately informed broad context
Reading List
Indicative Bibliography
Core bibliography available on eportal. Subject specific bibliography attached to project brief for this module. James Elkins Visual Literacy (2007)
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Special Arrangements This course is only available to students on BA Combined Studies (School of Art).
KeywordsINDIVIDUALLY SELECTED AND APPROVED TOPICS, AUTONOMY
Contacts
Course organiserMs Joan Smith
Tel: (0131 6)51 5917
Email: joan.smith@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Margaret Milner
Tel: (0131 6)51 5879
Email: m.milner@ed.ac.uk
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