MODULE SPECIFICATION FORM
Module
Engagement and Immersion
Title:
Module code:
ART707
Existing/New
:
Originating
Subject:
Level
:
Semester(s) in which 1
to be offered:
New
7
Credit
Value:
With
from:
20
effect 2010
Septembe
r
Title of module
being replaced (if
any):
Art and Design
Module
duration 200
(contact
hours/
directed/directed
20/80/
private study:
100
Module
Leader:
Des McCannon
Status: core/option/elective Option
(identify programme where
appropriate):
Percentage taught by Subjects other
than originating Subject (please name 0%
other Subjects):
Programme(s) in which to Pre-requisites
be offered:
programme
MA Art Practice
levels):
MA Design Practice
MA Creative Media
per Co-requisites
per
(between programme
(within
a
level):
Module Aims:
The content of this module is designed to help issues of a cultural and contextual
nature inform the students learning process and creativity. It is specifically relevant to
any student having recently relocated from overseas, for whom social and contextual
understanding of UK art and design approaches would be helpful.
The module aims to:
Ensure social and cultural diversity is recognised as a creative potential resource for
innovative thinking.
Key principals of cultural orientation are shared and appreciated by students
Major sources of knowledge associated with UK art and design are introduced and
interacted with when working creatively and innovating answers to design problems.
Expected Learning Outcomes
At the end of this module, students should be able to:
1. Critically debate and use reflective practice in considering the broader
socio-cultural contexts within which contemporary visual culture operates.
2. Provide documentation of knowledge gained and appreciation of complex
and challenging information through conceptual analysis and in the
development of theories, methods and practices related to this knowledge.
3. Demonstrate advancing expertise in one or more specialised practice areas
within the programme.
Transferable Skills and other attributes:
Peer group interaction will be developed
Presentation skills for verbal and visual communication will be developed
Assessment: please indicate the type(s) of assessment (eg examination, oral,
coursework, project) and the weighting of each (%).
Details of indicative
assessment tasks must be included.
Assessment will be based upon the individual students contribution to group tasks
and a poster presentation made to the peer group. The evidence and evaluation of
the group task will require the student to keep a notebook or journal charting the
individual response to a given task. This will include the process of setting and
allocating tasks within the group.
The student will evaluate the experience and what has been learnt by means of a
poster presentation and a short verbal introduction followed by a group seminar.
Assessme
nt
Learning
Type of assessment
Outcomes to
be met
Weighti
ng
1
1
20
Word count
or
equivalent if
appropriate
1000
2
2
40
1000
3
3
40
2000
Submission
of
notebook or journal
Submission of a
Poster presentation
and group seminar
contextual study file
Practical work
Duratio
n
(if
exam)
Learning and Teaching Strategies:
The module requires the student to engage in the context of their education by
developing and utilising information of a primary nature. This will include opportunity
to visit exhibitions of contemporary art practice by established or emerging artists and
is intended to act as a catalyst to debate and discussion of relative cultural values.
The nature of the work is undertaken by groups to help foster a sense of a learning
community in which discussion and debate is welcomed.
Syllabus outline:
The students will be taken to see a contemporary exhibition and required to develop a
critical appraisal of the exhibits and identify the themes underpinning the exhibition.
The work is to be discussed in a post visit seminar/debate to help explore some
themes. The students are then required to provide a critique of the exhibition in
relation to the contemporary context of the work and set an historical appreciation of
the movement the work may most closely resemble. This work will form a contextual
study file.
The context, both contemporary and historical, is to be described to the peer group
via a poster presentation and student led seminar leading to student designs
reflecting the themes investigated.
Bibliography
(please submit in Harvard referencing format)
Essential reading:
Atkins, R. Artspeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords.
Abbeville Press. 1997
Carroll, N. (ed), Theories of Art Today, Madison, University of Wis consin Press, 2000
Davies, S. The Definition of Art, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991
Lyas, C. Aesthetics: An Introduction. London UCL Press, 1997