Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include:
Learning activities include:
- reflection on tutor feedback;
- individual presentations;
- peer group learning.
Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes
In this module learning and teaching activities focus on helping you to investigate, question and analyse the nature of visual culture, its theories and how this influences your own ideas and/or the discipline in which you operate. Feedback on your progress and development will be given by group discussions, seminars and presentations. Informal feedback will provide opportunities for peer group learning and self-evaluation.
The formal assessment will be a 2500 word illustrated essay on an agreed topic. The use of illustrations will help you to develop visual research and analysis skills and to effectively present your critical engagement with visual cultural artefacts.
Study time
Type |
Hours |
Preparation for scheduled sessions |
25 |
Follow-up work |
31.5 |
Wider reading or practice |
31.5 |
Seminar |
12 |
Lecture |
12 |
Completion of assessment task |
38 |
Total study time |
150 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
Blackboard.
Textbooks
Danto, Arthur C (1998). The wake of art: criticism, philosophy, and the ends of taste. Amsterdam: G+B Arts International.
Barnard, Malcolm (2001). Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture. London: Palgrave.
Jones, Amelia(ed) (2010). The feminism and visual culture reader. London: Routledge.
Gray, Carole and Malins, Julian (2004). Visualising Research. A Guide for Postgraduate Students in Art and Design. Ashgate.
Mirzhoeff, Nicholas (ed) (2002). The Visual Culture Reader. London / New York: Routledge.
Evans, Jessica and Hall Stuart (1999). Visual Culture : The Reader. London: Sage.
Finkelstein, Joanne (2007). The Art of Self Invention: Image and Identity in Popular Visual Culture. London: I.B.Taurus.
Berger, John (1972). Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin.
Kocur, Zoya & Leung, Simon (Eds) (2004). Theory in contemporary art: from 1985 to the present. Oxford: Blackwell.
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki (2012). Art and Visual Culture: A Reader. London: Tate Publishing.
Smith, Shawn Michelle (1999). American Archives: gender, race, and class in visual culture. Princeton University Press.
Manghani, Sunil (2013). Image Studies: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge.
Paul Wood & Harrison, Charles (Ed) (2002). Art in theory 1900-2000: an anthology of changing ideas. Oxford: Blackwell.
Edwards, Steve (ed) (2012). Art and Visual Culture: 1850-2010: modernity to globalisation. London: Tate Publishing.