Research Report 50% This will consist of a portfolio of visual and textual information collected and collated by the student. [Learning Outcomes 1-5]
Individual Presentation based on Research Report 50%. This will have a duration of 10mins (equivalent to 1000 words) [Learning Outcomes 1-5]

Both assessment items map onto all learning outcomes.

Discussion to determine an appropriate avenue of research for individual students
Supervision to encourage tailored individual research on the part of the student
Small group workshops designed to enrich and deepen students verbal articulation concerning their own and others practice
Small group workshops designed to improve students ability to write coherently about the relationship of their practice to the broader field of contemporary art practice.
Online resources

Thinking the Visual is a 'theory in practice' oriented module the principal focus of which is individual students studio practice. The module will facilitate and enhance students capacity to contextualise their personal practice by means of improved skills in the areas of research and critical thinking. The module will encourage a highly inquisitive and questioning approach to the art practice of self and others and will improve students ability to represent their own practice through both speaking and writing. Thinking the Visual will also facilitate students capacity to expand upon the role of ideas in their individual practice.

In addition, there will be a focus on the important role of creative imagination in the process of critical thinking in the context of fine art practice. There will be an emphasis upon the manner in which imaginative cognition can be understood as interrelated with reasoning, material processes and intellectual frameworks.

There is a philosophical and interdisciplinary aspect to this module that could encourage contributions from staff in other disciplines.

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Bordwell, David, and Kristin Thompson. 2004. Film Art : An Introduction. 7th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
Butler, Judith. 2006. Gender Trouble : Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Routledge classics. New York: Routledge.
Celant, Germano, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, and Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney N.S.W.). 2002. Arte povera : art from Italy 1967-2002. Sydney, N.S.W.: Museum of Contemporary Art.
Dean, Tacita, and Jeremy Millar. 2005. Place, Art works. New York, N.Y.: Thames & Hudson.
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Dusek, Val. 2006. Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction. Malden, MA ; Oxford: Blackwell Pub.
Goldie, Peter, and Elisabeth Schellekens. 2007. Philosophy and Conceptual art. Oxford, New York: Clarendon Press
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Data projector
Slide projector
Audio, VHS, DVD playback,
Room with blackout
Library
Slide library
Student word-processing facilities
Internet access