Postgraduate Course: Applied Exhibition and Curation (CLLC11184)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Dissertation |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This course requires the students to undertake a range of applied activities; these will include: creative collaboration & group work; research and analysis; continuous reflection; critical thinking, analysis and reflection and the pragmatics of delivery in the professional sphere. This course will develop the necessary skills both to plan effectively for the final project work and enhance students' understanding and observation of the professional sphere within the context of the application of academic scholarship. |
| Course description |
Applied learning is an important aspect of the MSc Film, Exhibition and Curation for a number of reasons which all have the same purpose: to enhance the academic study of a professional field. It is about providing students with the opportunity to acquire and apply knowledge, skills and understanding through tasks set in sector contexts that have many of the characteristics of real work or are set within the workplace and which relate to academic study. Most importantly, the purpose of the tasks must be relevant to real work in the sector. We want to develop student employability by providing an opportunity to experience the actuality of what we study in the classroom at a professional level. Experience on its own, however, is not enough. What makes the applied learning on Film, Exhibition and Curation different from what students might gain by volunteering in various capacities, as individuals in their own time, is how we test ourselves in the classroom through discussion, supplementary and supporting assignments, reading across Applied Learning and Mediating Film, and how we generate productive reflection. All this develops the key professional skills in this professional field - critical and higher level thinking.
In addition to reflection in the classroom as a group, and the formal written component of the course, the students must keep reflective logs as an aide to identifying continuing and developing learning. This is then used as reference for the Reflective Essay component which is used as a supporting document for second marking and is also marked as a piece of individual writing.
An important component of how applied learning functions successfully is the creative collaboration involved in the overall design of project work. This process begins as part of Exhibiting Film in semester one and further develops throughout this course.
PROJECT WORK
This is managed by the course organiser as the capabilities of each cohort is different and the students are expected to undertake two projects, the first of which is to deliver a public event at a professional level. The quality of the event itself is not what is being graded, nor are we seeking perfection in delivery but more importantly we are looking for how keenly the process of curating and exhibiting film in practice is observed and how difficulty, simulated to duplicate how difficulty operates in real work situations, is managed. The project work brings to the foreground many necessary professional skills from communication and responsibility to collaboration, and the weekly workshops are designed to create discussion around these elements. The event itself is evidence of how successfully the students have prepared and engaged with these ideas from the basic organisation, how they handle a venue and communicate with technical staff, venue and festival managers, each other and the public. This is also gauged by public responses, in attendance figures and on the ground observation of their engagement, plus the responses of the film festival director and producer who attend aspects of the event on the day and have the final say on all aspects of delivery. However, since there is always the potential for circumstances beyond the students' control which may make delivery impossible, the preparation work is recorded individually in detailed reflective logs and all paperwork relating to group activity is collated and submitted as a dossier. The advance work undertaken and the observation of the process is very evident in delivery, in the individual logs and in the final reflective essays.
The second project will be designed by the students with guidance from the course leader and the brief will be to create a curated project that directly uses the broader academic scholarship undertaken during the previous year and will focus the students on how to use their academic study to useful effect in the professional sphere. The workshop assignment work will provide supporting documentation in addition to the individual reflective logs.
WORKSHOP ACTIVITY
The workshop activity provides an opportunity to consider and discuss all aspects of project work and includes the screenings where films are viewed, discussed and selected. In addition to the project work the workshops also include three presentation and development workshops where the students are asked to receive and give constructive feedback on the presentation of initial ideas for final project work and to use that feedback to develop the ideas which are then presented to visiting professionals for further feedback. In addition students are invited to curate a short film programme for the Edinburgh International Film Festival for which they view and discuss all the films eligible and then curated a short film programme. This simulates the work of programme teams dealing with submissions at festivals and is about students learning to develop their critical thinking and how to articulate that thinking and argue a position positively.
CONTINUOUS REFLECTIVE LOGS AND REFLECTIVE ESSAYS
Students must keep a weekly individual reflective log which makes connections between their activity, their learning and their observations about the professional sphere and how they are managing to operate within group work. The essay summarises these continuous reflective logs. In addition to being a supporting document for the second marker and external examiner in project work and workshop activity, these essays are marked in their own right. They are graded on how the student has observed their own learning through the range of opportunities available to them and how they make connections between the applied learning and their academic study.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2019/20, 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:
400
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Lecture Hours 8,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
344 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
The Course is graded in three parts as follows:
Project Work 50%;
Coursework 30%;
Reflective Essay (1500 words) 20%
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| Feedback |
Feedback is given throughout the course:
The workshop activity provides an opportunity to consider and discuss all aspects of project work and includes the screenings where films are viewed, discussed and selected. In addition to the project work the workshops also include three presentation and development workshops where the students are asked to receive and give constructive feedback on the presentation of initial ideas for final project work and to use that feedback to develop the ideas which are then presented to visiting professionals for further feedback. In addition students are invited to curate a short film programme for the Edinburgh International Film Festival for which they view and discuss all the films eligible and then curated a short film programme. This simulates the work of programme teams dealing with submissions at festivals and is about students learning to develop their critical thinking and how to articulate that thinking and argue a position positively.
CONTINUOUS REFLECTIVE LOGS AND REFLECTIVE ESSAYS
Students must keep a weekly individual reflective log (500-800 words) which makes connections between their activity, their learning and their observations about the professional sphere and how they are managing to operate within group work. The essay summarises these continuous reflective logs. In addition to being a supporting document for the second marker and external examiner in project work and workshop activity, these essays are marked in their own right. They are graded on how the student has observed their own learning through the range of opportunities available to them and how they make connections between the applied learning and their academic study.
Summative Feedback is given to students in response to their submissions along with their final grade in keeping with the schedule set by the graduate school office.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- master the ability to comprehend the connections between their academic work and the professional spheres of film exhibition and curation
- formulate skills in reflection which can be carried into further academic study, including Final Project work, and into a variety of professional environments
- acquire the ability to articulate and apply critical thinking across a range of outcomes
- generate evidence of their ability to work at a professional level in the field of film exhibition and curation
- develop an understanding of how the group exercises in project work reflect and represent dominant practices in the professional sphere: including creative collaboration; managing multiple deadlines; the pragmatics of delivery
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Reading List
| The reading is designed and planned in relation to the project themes as they develop. Students will be provided with relevant reading in advance of the course beginning. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
In the field of film exhibition and curation a range of skills in understanding delivery and audience engagement, beyond the theoretical, are crucial and for good reason - the profession is itself a combination of scholarship, critical thinking and a capability for the pragmatics of delivery. The applied learning component of the programme promotes significant learning, including problem-solving skills, higher order reasoning, integrative thinking, goal clarification, openness to new ideas, ability to adopt new perspectives, and systemic thinking. |
| Keywords | Film Exhibition Curation Applied Learning project Work Creative Collaboration |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Miss Susan Kemp
Tel: (0131 6)50 2945
Email: s.a.kemp@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Iain Sutherland
Tel: (0131 6)51 3988
Email: Iain.Sutherland@ed.ac.uk |
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