6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL
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Synopsis
Designed as a flexible unit, with an innovative small-group mode of delivery that enables the unit content to be student-led. It is specifically designed to enable students to contextualise their own creative practice in theoretical terms. With an emphasis on creative and critically aware approaches to visual production, the unit aims to open up and consolidate research avenues that may be particularly productive for individual student's personal directions.
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this unit students will:
- Have a grasp of key concepts in contemporary art theory relevant to the area of practice which they are pursuing;
- Be able to relate the terms of their practice to the broader field of contemporary art;
- Be able to practice criticism in small forums, identifying critical questions of other people's practice and considering and conjecturing how aesthetic standards are the expression of cultural values;
- Be able to sustain an exegetical defence of their work and its placement in current visual production;
- Be able to explain the senses in which their art practice involves research.
Assessment
100% in-semester assessment
Workload requirements
12 hours per week including 3 contact hours plus 9 hours of independent study.
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