Teaching and learning methods
In terms of learning, students will be expected, over the course of the module, to identify, analyse, and collate, a wide range of material in order to ensure that they have a thorough understanding of contemporary visual cultural theory and art and design practice. Students will also need to identify a specific area of interest that will provide the basis for an illustrated essay by the end of the module.
Teaching methods include:
- Lectures
- Seminars
- Presentations
- Study visit
Learning activities include:
- Lectures
- Seminars
- Group discussion
- Presentations
- Peer group learning
- Study visit
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 a range of contemporary visual cultural artifacts applying appropriate theoretical and analytical approaches. You will be encouraged to make links between diverse practices and theoretical approaches presented in the lectures and your own art and design practice and/or areas of specialised study. Seminars will provide opportunities for you to explore and identify these links through discussion and verbal feedback. This also provides opportunities for peer group learning and self-evaluation. During the module you will be guided in developing a topic for an illustrated essay in preparation for which you will present your proposed topic and will receive feedback and advice. This provides an opportunity to identify and explore in depth an aspect of visual culture that is most relevant to your areas of interest.
Study time
Type |
Hours |
Independent Study |
126 |
Teaching |
24 |
Total study time |
150 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
Blackboard.
Textbooks
Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall (eds) (1999). Visual Culture: The Reader. SAGE.
Mirzeoff, N. (2015). How to See the World. Pelican.
Mirzeoff, N. (2012). The Visual Culture Reader. Routledge.
Lymberopoulou, A. (2012). Art and Visual Culture: A Reader. Tate Publishing.