Undergraduate Course: MA Fine Art Research 5 (HIAR10103)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 5 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | Students will employ a high level of critical analysis in a chosen area of personal research and present a body of work that interrogates and informs studio practice. |
| Course description |
This course asks you to develop your work initiating appropriate working methods and processes to support your studio practice. It asks you to reflect on and record the particular path that you take through textual and image-based research, the methods, techniques and materials you use and why they are appropriate to your ideas.
Aims:
1.To define your personal area of research and show an ability to reflect on the methodologies you use.
2.To produce a body of research that supports your studio practice
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | ONLY AVAILABLE TO FINE ART STUDENTS
To fully participate in this course students are recommended to budget a minimum of £50.00 for general art materials such as sketchbooks, pens, pencils, paper.
This Course requires additional costs to be met by the Student. Course Organisers will support you in meeting intended learning outcomes while keeping material costs to a minimum, however, depending on your project focus within the course, you may optionally choose to incur costs associated with realising aspects of your work. Such costs are not compulsory and depend on the nature of your chosen individual project work.
Equipment and software: Most equipment and software required will be provided by the School, but student will be expected to provide some specialist equipment including [e.g. headphones, SD cards] if working with digital media. work. |
| Additional Costs | To fully participate in this course students are recommended to budget a minimum of £50.00 for general art materials such as sketchbooks, pens, pencils, paper.
This Course requires additional costs to be met by the Student. Course Organisers will support you in meeting intended learning outcomes while keeping material costs to a minimum, however, depending on your project focus within the course, you may optionally choose to incur costs associated with realising aspects of your work. Such costs are not compulsory and depend on the nature of your chosen individual project work.
Equipment and software: Most equipment and software required will be provided by the School, but student will be expected to provide some specialist equipment including [e.g. headphones, SD cards] if working with digital media. work. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Other Study Hours 30,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
362 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
There are two pieces of summative assessment that should be submitted in a single PDF document uploaded to Learn: an illustrated research report of 1000 words detailing 4 different aspects of your research, (this should spotlight different works or bodies of work, different methodologies, techniques or narratives), and a research statement of 300 words that outlines what informs your practice as a whole.
Assessment is formative at end of Semester 1 and summative at end of Semester 2.
Each learning outcome is equally weighted.
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Critically analyse range of research methods through the production of a clearly defined research proposal.
- Present a body of work which demonstrates critical thinking and synthesis of the major aims of your personal approach to Fine Art practice.
- Present your practice through a highly focussed range of organisational and presentational skills.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Painting,Printmaking,Sculpture,Intermedia,Photography |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Stuart Bennett
Tel: (0131 6)51 5875
Email: s.bennett@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Hollie Gilligan
Tel:
Email: hgilliga@ed.ac.uk |
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