Postgraduate Course: The World as Story: Narrative, Self and Society (fusion on-site) (EFIE11084)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh Futures Institute |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
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.
How do stories shape the real world in which we live? and how do they determine our perception of ourselves and the dynamic environments that we inhabit? In 'The World as Story' course students will critically examine the uses and abuses of the storytelling instinct in different spheres of social life and analyse the origins and effects of influential cultural narratives. They will come away with a better understanding of the forces that shape the narratives of our possible futures. |
| Course description |
The Semester 2 'The World as Story' programme core course will focus on the personal and social power of narratives: the way they allow us to make (and make sense of) our public and private identities; the way they drive political discourse and action and influence economic theory and practice; the way they are marshalled for purposes of community education or corporate gain; and the way they can help us envision the future of planet Earth.
Intensive units will be team-taught by an interdisciplinary group of instructors and will include seminars, interactive collaborative activities and, subject to availability, a fieldtrip. Students will get the opportunity to bond as a cohort, but also to work in smaller groups and individually.
Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) - On-Site 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 be aware that:
- Classrooms used in this course will have additional technology in place: students might not be able to sit in areas away from microphones or outside the field of view of all cameras.
- Unless the lecturer or tutor indicates otherwise you should assume the session is being recorded.
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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Co-requisites | |
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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 current social impacts and future implications of storytelling in relation to a variety of pressing global challenges.
- Critically analyse primary evidence - qualitative or quantitative data - to understand the processes of narrative formation, propagation and utilisation.
- Critically analyse and put into dialogue secondary academic texts from different disciplines dealing with the topic of narrative and society.
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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 also 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), and the attributes of intellectual autonomy and personal effectiveness in collaborative working (SCQF 3 and 5); and provides an opportunity to practice existing technical skills in data analysis (SCQF 2 and 4). |
| Keywords | Story,Narrative,Society,Data,Identity,Politics,Economics,Community,Environment,Education |
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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