Blended and E-Learning /Lectures /Class discussion/ screenings, class based learning research activities. Blended learning strategies will entail the use of electronic platforms such as Blackboard to provide on- line learning materials and interactive question and answer sessions. Lectures will outline key concepts and theories relating contemporary art using audio visual and interactive methods as appropriate.
Class discussions will encourage students to further develop their communication skills. In support of discussion students will be encouraged to reflect on set readings, podcasts and viewings for each class.
Module Aim:
This module aims to develop learner knowledge of how critical theory and philosophical ideas are developed and used to discuss contemporary art and visual culture. The module expands the learners’ critical vocabulary around the interpretation of contemporary art and culture. Learners’ will examine different interpretative strategies such as semiotics, psychoanalytic theory, discourse analysis and audience studies. The module shows how artists are often in conversation with cultural theories such as concepts of the gaze, spectatorship, the politics of representation, embodied knowledges, feminist and queer art studies, race and postcolonialism. A central aim of the module is to develop and encourage learners' confidence in interpreting contemporary art. The module expands learner knowledge by concentrating on a range of reading and writing skills in preparation for thesis module in stage 4.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module the learner should be able to:
LO1
Identify and describe various interpretative strategies used to understand Contemporary art and culture.
LO2
Develop and demonstrate a confident engagement with critical writing and reading strategies.
LO3
Construct a writing project which analyzes, evaluates and creates a critical and insightful research proposal.
Pre-requisite learning
Module Recommendations
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Incompatible Modules
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Requirements
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No requirements listed
Module Content & Assessment
Indicative Content
Aesthetics/Ethics
Introduction to the field of Aesthetics. Aesthetics as a field of enquiry in relation to sensory perception
'The Good Eye'
looking at images- interpreting composition
Content Analysis
What do you see/hear in the work
Semiotics
how do signs make meaning
Psychoanalysis
The image and the unconscious
Discourse Analysis
Intertextuality and context
The Gaze
Concepts of the gaze
Power and Knowledge
Images and Ideology
Theories of Embodiment
Art and embodiment
Assessment Breakdown
%
Continuous Assessment
100.00%
Continuous Assessment
Assessment Type
Assessment Description
Outcome addressed
% of total
Assessment Date
Reflective Journal
Weekly journal reflecting on learners' engagement in assessing different theoretical approaches to contemporary art related to learners' specific interests.
1,2
20.00
n/a
Project
Write a critical research proposal based on a self initiated topic related to contemporary art or culture. Research proposal will include an annotated bibliography.
1,2,3
80.00
n/a
No Project
No Practical
No End of Module Formal Examination
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