Undergraduate Course: Art Practice 4 (ARTX10038)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This course will consolidate your critical thinking, methods and methodologies.
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| Course description |
Through self-initiation and a motivated approach to your work supported by range of critiques and tutorials you will generate a critically informed and cohesive body of work. You will establish proficient approach to the production and context of your work in in relation to current practice.
Aims:
1.To propose and produce a personal direction for your work that determines a high level of ambition and understanding.
2.To present a selected body of work that communicates critical analysis, personal vision and awareness within the context of current practice.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | Students MUST also take:
Presentation: Methods & Context 4 (ARTX10037) AND (
Visual Culture Research Project (20 credit) (ARTX10036) AND
Visual Research 4 (40 credit) (ARTX10039)) OR (
Visual Culture Research Project (40 credit) (ARTX10040) AND
Visual Research 4 (20 credit) (ARTX10035))
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| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This course is only available to students on a Degree Programme in the School of Art.
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.
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 20,
Formative Assessment Hours 5,
Summative Assessment Hours 3,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
354 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Assessment is formative at end of Semester 1 and summative at end of Semester 2.
The assessment will focus on a professionally presented body of your work. This should be supported by documentation of work made since the last summative assessment.
This should include no more than 20 images of your work. Those working with video and sound files should provide working links to appropriate platforms. You should also include one statement of up to 300 words that outlines your approach to your practice
Both submissions are compulsory and failure to submit one or both will result in a fail.
Summative Assessment counts towards your final grade/mark. It evaluates your learning (against intended learning outcomes for the course).
Relationship between Assessment and Learning Outcomes:
All Learning Outcomes are equally weighted in assessment. |
| Feedback |
Feedback For MAFA 4: Feedback on your summative assessment will be given to you on the release date of final year marks.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Develop a body of work that has been evolved through personal interpretations of concepts and principles related to your art practice
- Utilize appropriate methods, processes and materials essential to the realization of your ideas
- Realize sophisticated and autonomous solutions within your practice that clearly demonstrate practical and contextual knowledge and understanding of your chosen discipline
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Technical methods, self motivated practice, collaboration, negotiation, critical evaluation. |
| Keywords | Intermedia,Painting,Photography,Sculpture,Analogue,Digital,Camera,Performance,Video,Colour |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Marianne Greated
Tel:
Email: mgreate2@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Hollie Gilligan
Tel:
Email: hgilliga@ed.ac.uk |
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