Postgraduate Course: The World of Story: Narrative, Creativity and the Arts (fusion online) (EFIE11083)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh Futures Institute |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | *Programme Core Course: Narrative Futures: Art, Data, Society (MSc/PGD/PGC)*
Please Note:
This course is only available to students enrolled on the Narrative Futures: Art, Data, Society (MSc/PGD/PGC) degree.
What kinds of new worlds do stories create? How do they create them? What is the future of stories in our rapidly changing world? In 'The World of Story' course, students will learn about the principles of narrative construction and interpretation in a variety of media and apply those critical and practical principles to the creation of their own narrative artefact. They will come away with an enhanced insight into the prospects of storytelling as a creative activity in the twenty-first century. |
| Course description |
The Semester 1 'The World of Story' programme core course will ask students to think about the future of the narrative arts. What do traditional and digital kinds of narrative have to say to each other? What does the future hold for textual, visual, performative and interactive modes of storytelling? How can one envision storytelling as a local, situated practice in a globalised and virtualised world? And what should human producers and consumers of stories make of the brave new world of AI-generated narrative?
Intensive teaching blocks will be team-taught by an interdisciplinary group of instructors and will include seminars, guest speakers, and interactive collaborative activities. Students will get the opportunity to bond as a cohort, but also to work in smaller groups and individually.
Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) - Online Fusion Course Delivery Information:
The Edinburgh Futures Institute will teach this course in a way that enables online and on-campus students to study together. This approach (our 'fusion' teaching model) offers students flexible and inclusive ways to study, and the ability to choose whether to be on-campus or online at the level of the individual course. It also opens up ways for diverse groups of students to study together regardless of geographical location. To enable this, the course will use technologies to record and live-stream student and staff participation during their teaching and learning activities. Students should note that their interactions may be recorded and live-streamed. There will, however, be options to control whether or not your video and audio are enabled.
As part of your course, you will need access to a personal computing device. Unless otherwise stated activities will be web browser based and as a minimum we recommend a device with a physical keyboard and screen that can access the internet.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate competence in core skills including independent research, planning and writing, group collaboration and oral presentation.
- Show knowledge of the theory and practice of story creation in different narrative media, such as textual (including machine-generated using text datasets), visual, performative, interactive (games).
- Apply existing and acquired skills to produce a narrative art-object in a selected medium.
- Critically analyse and put into dialogue secondary academic texts from different disciplines dealing with the topic of narrative and the arts.
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Reading List
The list of required class readings will be provided by the team-teaching instructors and may change year-to-year in accordance with staffing. All mandatory readings will be made available digitally.
Students will have access to a General Bibliography, incorporating both theoretical and skills/methods sources, covering a range of fields. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
The course develops graduate skills in research, enquiry and communication (SCQF 1 and 4), in creative practice (SCQF 2), and the attributes of intellectual autonomy and personal effectiveness in collaborative working (SCQF 3 and 5). |
| Keywords | Story,Narrative,Art,Creative,Text,Image,Body,Oral,Game,AI |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Lynda Clark
Tel:
Email: lynda.clark@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Zoe Hogg
Tel:
Email: Zoe.Hogg@ed.ac.uk |
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