Framing Your Practice

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• draw conclusions from reflection to further the development of your ideas.
• organise your material for clarity of thought and communication, observing academic convention;
• draw upon a wide range of research sources, printed, electronic and actual;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• evaluate visual and textual information relevant to your ideas;
• advance a set of ideas which locate your studio practice;
• articulate connections between contextual data to further the development of your studio practice.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• theoretical and critical themes relevant to your studio practice;
• the relationships in your work between contexts, concepts, content and methods.

The module leads to the production of a 2000-word illustrated essay, discussing an identified range of references, the work of artists and authors other than yourself. These items, and the links you articulate between them, should describe an intellectual territory in which your practice is located. Lectures will offer guidance by example on addressing art-historical material; material from current art practice; material from other creative disciplines; and theoretical or commentative literature. In each of these areas, the essay might discuss a range of material or a single item. It should include a brief introduction explaining the current nature of your practice, and a conclusion outlining any changes of direction which the research on the module may have occasioned.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

• lectures;
• sign-up tutorials;
• on-line support if you are studying the Student Exchange module.

Learning activities include:

• lectures;
• sign-up tutorials;
• library research;
• on-line research;
• Study Skills Hub.

Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes

Learning in this module is intended to be self-directed and independent, supported by a framework of lectures and tutorials. The module is an opportunity to reflect on your practice in a contemporary context

of other artists’ and writers’ work, and to build an argument to support your ideas.

If you are studying the Student Exchange module you will receive support via Panopto, Blackboard and by email.

The assessed outcome of this module is the essay, which will be marked against the Learning Outcomes of the module.

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Academic Skills ( including AI).

Blackboard (E:learning).

Panopto via Blackboard.

Library.

Study Skills.

Textbooks

Hickey, D. (1997). Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy. Los Angeles: Art Issues Press.

Calvino, I. (1974). Invisible Cities. Rome: Giulio Einaudi.

Schon, D. (1991). The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. Ashgate Publishing Limited.

Foster, H. (2017). Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency. New York: Verso.

Rose, G. (2011). Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials. London: Sage.

White, M. and Schwoch, J. (eds) (2006). Questions of Method in Cultural Studies. Oxford: Blackwell.

Polanyi, M. (2009). The Tacit Dimension. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Brett Davis, M. (2007). Doing a Successful Research Project: Using Qualitative or Quantitative Methods. London: Palgrave.

Kocur, Z and Leung, S. eds. (2012). Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985. Oxford: John Wiley and Sons.

Cohen, L., Manion, L. and Morrison, K. (2007). Research Methods in Education. London: Routledge.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.