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Postgraduate Course: TPG Masters Project (ARTX11034)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course typeDissertation AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits60 ECTS Credits30
SummaryThis course offers the opportunity to undertake wide-ranging and in-depth artistic practice and investigation.
Course description You are granted considerable freedom to pursue any aspect of the field of contemporary art to be documented in the submission of a Digital Portfolio.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Research (33%) - Determine, master and apply the most appropriate methods for the production, distribution and consumption of your work.
  2. Analysis (33%) - Produce a body of work that is scholarly, speculative, original and creatively ambitious.
  3. Communicate (33%) - Take responsibility for the development and execution of a professionally resolved body of work.
Reading List
BARRETT, Estelle. and BOLT, Barbara. 'Practice as Research', I B Tauris, 2010.

BLAXTER, L et al. How to Research, Buckingham: OUP, 2001.

CARTER, Paul. "Material Thinking', Melbourne University Press, 2004.

DAICHENDT, James. 'Artist Scholar: Reflections on Writing and Research', Intellect, 2011.

EMMISON, M. Researching the Visual, London, SAGE, 2000.

FRANCIS, Pat. 'Inspiring Writing: Taking a Line for a Write', Intellect, 2011.

GRAY and MALLINS, Visualizing Research, Ashgate, 2004.

NCNIFF, Shaun. Art-Based Research London: Jessica Kingsley, 1998.

ROSE, Gillian. Visual Methodologies, Sage, 2006.

SELBY, Aimee (ed.) 'Art and Text', Black Dog, 2009.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Special Arrangements N/A
Study Abroad N/A
Additional Class Delivery Information N/A
KeywordsMA MFA Capstone,School of Art,Postgraduate,Degree Show
Contacts
Course organiserMs Christine Ellison
Tel:
Email: cellison@ed.ac.uk
Course secretary Nanami Chen
Tel:
Email: ychen7@ed.ac.uk
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