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Postgraduate Course: TPG Material Cultures (ARTX11028)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits40 ECTS Credits20
SummaryThis module explores some of the important concepts and theories associated with material culture.
Course description The course will develop your understanding and appreciation of the ways objects and images are negotiated in Western society through tradition, ritual and ideology. Each session is themed around a particular popular cultural practice or ideology that is investigated in relation to the theories and discourses of Material Culture.
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. Demonstrate a highly developed command of visual literacy and an original and imaginative critical faculty.
  2. Provide evidence of an Independent a body of research and successfully engage your peers in discussions that articulate the relationships between material cultural practices and related theories and discourses.
  3. Apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to principle theories and discourses at the forefront of material culture studies.
Reading List
Woodward, I, Understanding Material Culture, Sage, 2007.
Attfield, J, Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life, Berg, 2000.
Baudrillard, J. The System of Objects, Verso, 2005.
Appadurai, A. The Social Life of Things, Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Buchli, V. (ed) The Material Culture Reader, Berg, 2002.
Dant, Tim, Material Culture in the Social World: Values, Activities, Lifestyles, OUP, 1999.
Atfield, Judith. Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life, Berg, 2000.
Miller, D, Material Culture and Mass Consumption, Blackwell, 1987.
Miller, D. Stuff, Polity, 2009.
Tilley, C. (ed) The Handbook of Material Culture, SAGE, 2006
Turkle, S. Evocative Objects, Things We Think With, MIT, 2007.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsMaterial Culture Cultural Studies Sensual Turns
Contacts
Course organiserMr John Beagles
Tel: (0131 6)51 5909
Email: j.beagles@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Jennifer Watson
Tel: (0131 6)50 2226
Email: Jennifer.A.Watson@ed.ac.uk
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