Undergraduate Course: How Art Works (Credit Plus) (LLLA07121)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course will provide an introduction to the academic discipline of art history and the skills needed to interpret visual culture and produce work for assessments. It will be a primer for people interested in other history of art classes or students of other disciplines such as History or Literature, and provide a good grounding in Humanities scholarship for Credit for Entry students. |
| Course description |
Week 1
The 'unruly discipline' What do art historians do?
Week 2
What is Art made of?
Week 3
What makes Art Different?
Week 4
IS a picture worth 1,000 words?
Week 5
The Rise of the ISMS
Practice Essay due
Week 6
Classicism
Week 7
Gothicism
Week 8
Classicism again
Week 9
Revolutionism
Week10
Modernism / Postmodernism
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Objectively analyse material, form and content in works of art produced in western Europe between 650 BCE and the present
- Understand, analyse and interpret secondary material both in terms of content, and just as importantly, methodology
- Present arguments and visual analysis in coherent, well balanced well structured and well presented form
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Reading List
Essential
Fernie, E. 1995. Art History and its Methods, London: Phaidon.
Honour, H. and J. Fleming. 1995. A World History of Art. 4th ed. London: Laurence King.
Gombrich, E. H. 2000. The Story of Art. 4th ed. London: Phaidon.
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Web sources
Metropolitan Museum of Art (2000) Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. [Online]. Available at: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm [Accessed: 2 February 2009].
Delahunt, M. (1996) Artlex Art Dictionary. [Online]. Available at: http://www.artlex.com/ [Accessed: 2 February 2009].
Tate. The Tate Glossary. [Online]. Available at: http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/ [Accessed: 2 February 2009].
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Intellectual skills:
Analyzing and engaging critically with a wide range of visual material
Comparing and contrasting art works
Compiling and combining data for interpretation
Assimilating new knowledge
Reading independently
Communication skills:
Discussing within a group
Expressing ideas and thoughts
Listening actively
Taking part in a seminar course
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sally Crumplin
Tel:
Email: Sally.Crumplin@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Kameliya Skerleva
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Kameliya.Skerleva@ed.ac.uk |
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