Postgraduate Course: Design Exploration (20 Credits) (DESI11084)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This elective course asks you to define, collect, select, analyse and justify an area of creative research practice that is innovative and critically aware. You will produce a cohesive and mature body of practice-based research work. |
| Course description |
The course will offer direct experience of research, effectively contributing to a research endeavour.
This course aims to:
1 Enable you to propose, justify and undertake a study plan with clearly defined critical aims, objectives and methods.
2 Enable you to develop a sophisticated body of research material and evidence of practical exploration that communicates a progression of ideas and a critical awareness of contemporary practice and theory.
3 Develop and consolidate your critical analysis and reflective appraisal of appropriate research themes.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 4,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 6,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 8,
Fieldwork Hours 6,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
172 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
For your final summative assessment you are asked for a portfolio submission of research outcomes to communicate your understanding of the learning acquired through the course. The portfolio elements evidence both your material and conceptual learning and map onto to the Learning Outcomes. Each Programme communicates the specific required portfolio elements via LEARN. |
| Feedback |
Feedback is regularly communicated through the course. This takes a number forms, verbally through group and individual meetings where work and ideas are discussed with both peers and tutor. There is also a specific mid semester formative feedback point when indicative grades are given. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- ANALYSE: select and use relevant methods to evaluate appropriate material, precedents and sources with critical understanding.
- CHALLENGE: recognise, rationalise and question thematic strands within practice-based research investigations
- PLAN: demonstrate a sense of purpose and autonomy in the development of lines of inquiry in both theory and practice
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Learning Resources
C. Crouch and J. Pearce, Doing Research in Design (London: Berg, 2012).
Barry Cullingworth and Vincent Nadin, Town and Country Planning in the UK (London: Routledge, 2011).
Lewis Hopkins, ¿How Plans Work¿, in Birch (ed.) The Urban and Regional Planning Reader (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 199-206.
Nigel Taylor, ¿New Directions in Planning Theory¿, in Birch (ed.) The Urban and Regional Planning Reader (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 96-105.
Margit Mayer, ¿Contesting the Neoliberalization of Urban Governance¿, in Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck, and Eric S. Sheppard [eds.], Contesting Neoliberalism (New York; London: Guilford Press, 2006).
Lewis Mumford, The City in History, New York; London: A Harvest Book, 1989.
L. Sandercock, Making the Invisible Visible: A multicultural Planning History (University of California Press, California, 1998).
C. Seale (ed.) Social Research Methods: A Reader (London: Routledge, 2004).
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Be open to new ideas, methods and ways of thinking
Be able to identify processes and strategies for learning
Be ready to ask key questions and exercise rational enquiry
Search for, evaluate and use information to develop their knowledge and understanding
Be able to respond effectively to unfamiliar problems in unfamiliar contexts
Be able to make decisions on the basis of rigorous and independent thought, taking into account ethical and professional issues
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| Keywords | Design,research,cities,governance,masters,semester 2 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Tahl Kaminer
Tel: (0131 6)50 2319
Email: Tahl.Kaminer@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Remi Jankeviciute
Tel: (0131 6)51 5773
Email: Ramune.Jankeviciute@ed.ac.uk |
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