Postgraduate Course: Exploring Cultural Landscapes 2: Independent Field Lab (ARCH11225)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course requires students to employ the theoretical tools, skills, analytical frameworks and methods/methodologies they have studied in the core course 'Exploring Cultural Landscapes I' in Semester 1. |
| Course description |
The focus of the course will be the construction of a project proposal relating to the student's particular pathway (for example, a public/site specific art project, an ethnographic field study, a geographical project, a textual analysis), and will be concerned with a site that the student in agreement with the Course Organiser will work upon. This course is based on 'research-led pedagogy' where students are encouraged to take ownership, by sharing best practice and engaging in constructive critique about their peers' emerging independent projects (part of the oral presentation assessment). This course will have two assessments: an oral presentation (30%) and a 3000 word project proposal (70%).
This course aims to design and undertake independent fieldwork relating to cultural landscapes in sites either within the landscapes surrounding Edinburgh as explored in Exploring Cultural Landscapes 1, or beyond the region in other regional, national or international contexts or even non-physical locations e.g. sites as represented in literature, film and the arts. Supervision will be offered throughout this course.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | NOTE: for students in the MSc Cultural Landscapes, it is required to take first the core course Exploring Cultural Landscapes 1: Specific Field Site |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- have a capacity to independently formulate original research projects within cultural landscape studies that are driven by appropriate theories and research questions relating to the broader field.
- have an ability to reflect upon landscape histories and theories, to make decisions about appropriate approaches and justify their use through the sophisticated development of appropriate methodologies, and to apply them to urban or rural landscapes.
- have an ability to coherently and creatively communicate sophisticated findings and identify further research questions that arise from it in oral and written presentations.
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Reading List
ESSENTIAL READINGS
Cosgrove, D. and Daniels, S. (1988) (Eds) The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (in Library)
Hirsh, E. and O'Hanlon, M. (Eds) (1995) The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (in Library)
Howard, P., Thompson, I. and Waterton, E. (Eds) (2013) The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies. London: Routledge. (in Library)
Ingold, T. (2000) Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill. London: Routledge. (in Library)
Roe, M. and Taylor, K. (Eds) (2014) New Cultural Landscapes. London: Routledge. (google.books)
Tilley, C. (1994) Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments. London: Berg Books. (in Library)
UNESCO (2017) Cultural Landscapes.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/culturallandscape/#1 |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Knowledge and understanding: ability to reflect critically on the principal theories in the discipline set in a policy context.
Generic cognitive skills: the application of critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis via critical review and judgement on theories at the forefront of the disciplines relevant to cultural landscapes.
Practice - applied knowledge and understanding: select, and demonstrate the practical application of, specialist skills to a real-life research project informed by forefront developments in the subject.
Communication skills and autonomy and accountability: working alone and with others to develop and present findings from their work. |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
There will be fieldwork-based activities and field visits during the course. There will also be film screenings relevant to the course content. Some of the seminars will be run by guest tutors. |
| Keywords | Cultural landscapes,site specific research,methods/methodology,fieldwork,independent study. |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Michelle Bastian
Tel: (0131 6)51 5779
Email: Michelle.Bastian@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Remi Jankeviciute
Tel: (0131 6)51 5773
Email: Ramune.Jankeviciute@ed.ac.uk |
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