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Postgraduate Course: TPG Cultural Turns (ARTX11029)

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 Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course engages with the re-evaluation of popular culture, a reconsideration of the meaning and scope of the 'aesthetic,' and an engagement with numerous other concerns outside the traditional
domain of Critical Theory, such as geography, museology, cultural studies, design and visual culture, and gender studies. Central to the course is thus a tracking of the rise of discourses in response to
the perceived inadequacy of Critical Theory in the face of contemporary society and culture.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Generate a focus for and make a constructive contribution to group crits.
  2. Demonstrate an ability to research and articulate a critical knowledge of one or more principle methods in the analysis of culture and subject one or more of those methods to critical scrutiny
  3. Use your publishing media to conceptualise, promote, and generate a critical dialogue around your group curatorial project.
Reading List
William, R. Culture and Materialism, Verso, 2005.
Chaney, D. Cultural Turn: Scene-setting Essays on Contemporary Cultural Theory, Routledge, 1994.
Couldry, N. Inside Culture: Re-imaginging the Method of Cultural Studies, Sage, 2000.
Pickering, M. Research Methods for Cultural Studies, Edinburgh University Press, 2008.
Barker, C. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice, Sage, 2003.
Johnson, R. et al. The Practice of Cultural Studies, Sage, 2004.
Frow, J. Cultural Studies and Cultural Value, Oxford, 1995.
Gelder, K. The Subcultures Reader, London : Routledge, 1997.
Ray and Sayer (eds) Culture and Economy After the Cultural Turn, Sage, 1999.
Velthuis, O. Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art, Princeton, 2007.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsCultural Geography Museology Cultural Studies Design Histories Gender Studies Metahistory Cybercultu
Contacts
Course organiserMr John Beagles
Tel: (0131 6)51 5909
Email: j.beagles@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Jennifer Watson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5743
Email: Jennifer.A.Watson@ed.ac.uk
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