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Postgraduate Course: Studio Theories and Contexts (DESI11018)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course is only available to students in the School of Design.

Indicative course content
This course is designed to help you to contextualise contemporary practices, processes and theoretical debates in design. It offers you the opportunity to undertake a short investigation and appraisal of your practice in relation to its contemporary contexts that will allow you to situate your practice within a broader theoretical, material and technical context as it develops in semester 2.

Aims of course
1 To provide you with the opportunity to identify and pursue theoretical and contextual issues appropriate to the development of your practice.
2 To provide you with the skills to research, propose, manage and undertake an analysis of the values underpinning your practice, anticipated audience/consumer and validating contexts.
3

Mode of delivery
lectures, seminars, workshops
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements Pre-requisites
Appropriate SCQF Level 10 Qualification or equivalent.

Co-requisites
MA - DESI11012, DESI11013, DESI11015, DESI11016, DESI11019
MFA - DESI11012, DESI11013, DESI11014, DESI11015, DESI11016, DESI11017, DESI11019
Additional Costs course materials and study trips
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  150
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Feedback/Feedforward Hours 10, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 88 )
Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) Summative assessment is by portfolio submission
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Assessment plan
Not entered
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. RESEARCH: Identify, define and test the methodologies that provide a critical framework for your practice.
  2. ANALYSE: Show a clear knowledge of relevant theoretical, material and technical debates concerning your practice and an ability to situate your practice within a broader cultural and theoretical context.
  3. SYNTHESISE & COMMUNICATE: Demonstrate a professional ability to manage, structure, resolve and communicate your increasingly sophisticated ideas verbally, visually and in writing.
Reading List
Indicative Bibliography
Adamson, Glenn., 2007. Thinking Through Craft. Oxford: Berg. Coles, Alex (ed.), 2007. Design Art: Documents of Contemporary Whitechapel: London. Gorman, Carma (ed.), 2003. The Industrial Design Reader. New York: Allworth Press. McNiff, Shaun, 1998. Art-based Research. London: Jessica Kinglsey Publishers. Schon, D., 1983. The Reflective Practitioner. Aldershot: Ashgate. Sturken, M., 2001. Practices of Looking. Oxford. Sullivan, G., 2005. Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts. London: SAGE.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Special Arrangements This course is only available to students in the School of Design.
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Jonathan Murray
Tel: (0131 6)51 5722
Email: jonny.murray@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Emma Binks
Tel: (0131 6)51 5740
Email: Emma.Binks@ed.ac.uk
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