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DRPS : Course Catalogue : Edinburgh College of Art : Lifelong Learning (ECA)

Undergraduate Course: Expression and Abstraction (LLLA07138)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryTHIS 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.
Course description Not entered
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:  10
Course Start Lifelong Learning - Session 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 27, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 71 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) 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.
Feedback Not entered
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.
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
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and 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
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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