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Postgraduate Course: TPG Masters Project (ARTX11034)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits60 ECTS Credits30
SummaryThis course offers the opportunity to undertake wide-ranging and in-depth artistic practice and investigation.
Course description You are granted considerable freedom to pursue any aspect of the field of contemporary art but must do so in relation to one of the following forms: exhibiting your work in a group Degree Show, developing a practice-led project, or producing a body of artwriting for publication.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 600 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 2, Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 10, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 16, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Revision Session Hours 1, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 12, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 557 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Research
Feedback Formative feedback on evidence of planning and development of work for public consumption.

Summative feedback on final project.
No Exam Information
Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 600 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 2, Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 10, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 16, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Revision Session Hours 1, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 12, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 557 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Research
Feedback Formative feedback on evidence of planning and development of work for public consumption.

Summative feedback on final project.
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Research: Determine, master and apply the most appropriate methods for the production, distribution and consumption of your work.
  2. Analyse: Produce a body of work that is scholarly, speculative, original and creatively ambitious.
  3. Communicate: Working with others take responsibility for the development and execution of a professionally resolved body of work for public scrutiny.
Reading List
Blaxter, L et al. How to Research, Buckingham: OUP, 2001
Emmison, M. Researching the Visual, London,SAGE, 2000
Daichendt, James. 'Artist Scholar: Reflections on Writing and Research', Intellect, 2011.
NcNiff, Shaun. Art-Based Research London: Jessica Kingsley, 1998.
Francis, Pat. 'Inspiring Writing: Taking a Line for a Write', Intellect, 2011.
Selby, Aimee (ed.) 'Art and Text', Black Dog, 2009.
Barrett, Estelle. and Bolt, Barbara. 'Practice as Research', I B Tauris, 2010.
Rose, Gillian. Visual Methodologies, Sage, 2006.
Carter, Paul. "Material Thinking', Melbourne University Press, 2004.
Gray and Mallins, Visualizing Research, Ashgate, 2004.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsMA MFA Capstone,School of Art
Contacts
Course organiserMr John Beagles
Tel: (0131 6)51 5909
Email: j.beagles@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Jennifer Watson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5744
Email: Jennifer.A.Watson@ed.ac.uk
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