Framing your Project

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• a cultural context for your Final Major Project;
• theoretical and critical themes relevant to your Final Major Project;
• the relationships in your project between contexts, concepts, content and methods.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• apply academic rigour in the efficient and communicative organisation of your material;
• draw sophisticated and specific conclusions from reflection in the development of a project.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• conduct advanced research of relevant sources to locate your Final Major Project;
• combine evaluation of visual and literary evidence in the development of your ideas;
• articulate connections between contextual data to advance the proposal for your Final Major Project.

The module leads to the production of a 3500-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 identify the intellectual territory in which your Final Major Project is to be located. You should explain the current nature of your practice and outline any changes of direction which the research on the module may have occasioned. You are encouraged to include art-historical material, current art practice, material from other creative disciplines and theoretical or commentative literature. The lectures on the module offer in-depth discussion in these areas, based on case studies, as well as guidance on relevant modes of research and the construction of the essay.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

• lectures;
• sign-up tutorials.

Learning activities include:

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

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 focus and organise your reflection on the context for your Final Major Project. The assessed outcome of the module is the essay, which will be marked against the Learning Outcomes of the module.

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Study Skills.

Library.

Blackboard (E:learning).

Academic Skills ( including AI).

Textbooks

Hoffmann, J. (2014). Show Time: The 50 Most Influential Exhibitions of Contemporary Art. London: Thames & Hudson.

Dezeuze, A. (2016). Almost Nothing: Observations on Precarious Practices in Contemporary Art. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Hoffmann, J. (2013). Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating. Milan: Mousse Publishing.

Pickering, M. (ed) (2008). Research Methods for Cultural Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

O’Doherty, B. (1999). Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space. Berkeley, Calif: University of California.

Texte Zur Kunst (2012). Special Issue: The Curators. Berlin: Texte Zur Kunst.

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.