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Undergraduate Course: Themes in Contemporary Art (ARTX10041)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course will look at a variety of key themes within contemporary art. The course borrows its structure and starting content from the Whitechapel Gallery series of books 'Documents in Contemporary Art'. In this series of books, topics such as Colour, Beauty, Education, Ruins, Utopia, Participation and the Cinematic are covered, with each book featuring a selection of key artworks and texts. The lecture series will adopt a similar focus and structure. Different lecturers, artists and writers will deliver talks with each presentation focussing on a separate theme from the Whitechapel book series.
Course description This course will look at a variety of key themes within contemporary art. The course borrows its structure and starting content from the Whitechapel Gallery series of books 'Documents in Contemporary Art'. In this series of books, topics such as Colour, Beauty, Education, Ruins, Utopia, Participation and the Cinematic are covered, with each book featuring a selection of key artworks and texts.

This course will look at a variety of key themes within contemporary art. The course borrows its structure and starting content from the Whitechapel Gallery series of books 'Documents in Contemporary Art'. In this series of books, topics such as Colour, Beauty, Education, Ruins, Utopia, Participation and the Cinematic are covered, with each book featuring a selection of key artworks and texts.

The lecture series will adopt a similar focus and structure. Different lecturers, artists and writers will deliver talks with each presentation focussing on a separate theme from the Whitechapel book series.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  22
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 8, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 12, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 176 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) 1 x 4000 word essay (100%)
Feedback Formative assessment (feed forward) will be given in relation to the written assessment at the mid-point of semester. Students will be asked to prepare an outline or draft proposal of their written assessment task and will receive verbal or written feed forward / feedback on this in advance of the final submission date. Students will receive full written feedback on completion of the summative assessment.
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Research: Research and show a critical understanding and autonomy in identifying of several principal methods of enquiry related to practices and strategies from contemporary art and employ a diverse range of textual sources, images and artefacts.
  2. Analysis: Demonstrate a critical understanding of complex issues related to contemporary art in the present and justify the methods and practices you use to analyse them.
  3. Communication: Successfully communicate your original research, analysis and professional initiative in a well structured, coherent and creative form.
Learning Resources
Modernism Designing a New World, London, V&A Publications (2006) Wilk, C. (ed) A
Utopia and reality : Swedish modernism 1900-1960, Imprint: New Haven : Yale University, c2002. Cecilia Widenheim, ed., Cecilia Widenheim (ed.), Utopia and Reality. Modernity in Sweden 1900-1960, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2002 ECA Lib 745(485)-19-
Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism Rosalind Krauss Hal Foster, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and David Joselit Yve-Al
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Research methods, self motivated practice, collaboration, negotiation, critical evaluation.
KeywordsVisual culture,critical evaluation,presentation,research.
Contacts
Course organiserMr John Beagles
Tel: (0131 6)51 5909
Email: j.beagles@ed.ac.uk
Course secretary Nanami Chen
Tel:
Email: ychen7@ed.ac.uk
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