The format of the module will provide you with interactive discussion and debate sessions within the framework of the tutors presentations as well as support for the production of their written assignments. Tutors will begin each session with a short introduction of the theoretical perspective in hand which will be followed up by a group discussion of the implications of the position for art practice.
You will also receive workshop instruction in appropriate study skills, library skills and information technology skills.

In practice-based modules, appropriate student supervision beyond the stated contact learning hours is determined by the number of students enrolled on the module per semester, and will be in accordance with current health and safety requirements.

Alcoff, Linda Martin, & Mendieta, Eduardo (2003) Identities: Race, Class, Gender and Nationality. Blackwell.
Araeen, R. (ed., 2002) The Third text reader on art, culture and theory. Continuum.
Bal, Mieke (1996) Double Exposures: the subject of Cultural Analysis, by Mieke Bal and others, Routledge.
Brooker, P. (1999) A Concise Glossary of Cultural Theory, Arnold.
Doy, Gem (2005) Picturing the Self: Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture, Gen Doy. I.B. Tauris.
Dyer, R. (2002) The matter of images : essays on representations. Routledge.
Edwards, S. (1999) Art and Its Histories: A Reader, Yale University Press in association with the Open University, London and New Haven.
Forty, Adrian & Keuchler, Susanne (eds., 1999) The Art of Forgetting. Berg Oxford.
Harrison, C. & Wood, P. (1992) Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Blackwell.
Kwon, M. (2001) One Place after Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity. London, MIT Press.
Lechte, J. (1994) Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: from Structuralism to Postmodernity, Routledge.
Lury, Celia, (1998) Prosthetic Culture: Photography, Memory and Identity. Routledge.
Meyer, J. (2000) The Functional Site; or, The Transformation of Site Specificity, in E. Suderberg (ed.), Space, Site, Intervention - Situating Installation Art, (London, University of Minnesota Press)
Radstone, S. (ed., 2000) Memory and Methodology (Berg, Oxford)
Schama, Simon (1995) Landscape and Memory. London, Harper Collins.
Thomas, J. (ed., 2001) Reading images. Palgrave.
Vidler, A., (1996) The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely 4th Edition, (London, MIT Press)
Woodward, Kath, (ed., 2004) Questioning Identity: Gender, Class, Ethnicity. Routledge.

Students are expected to take advantage of the extensive library facilities available within the University and to keep abreast of current developments through reading appropriate periodicals and by being aware of the work of the major practitioners in their subject or field.

100% COURSEWORK consisting of research notes and an illustrated and referenced written assignment of 4000 words.

The student is provided with a set of readings that are discussed in seminar sessions. The student is expected to make notes on the readings and seminar sessions plus research notes on follow-up reading. When the sessions end a selection of the readings becomes the basis for a written critical analysis of key ideas that are related to the art practice of both the student and relevant recognised artists. The resulting written assignment must be illustrated and properly referenced.

Slide Projection facilities and suitable accommodation for the presentation of work
Access to library and slide library

Non-specialist computing facilities for email, internet access, word processing, database, spreadsheet and basic presentations will be available through LLRS/ITS facilities on campus, not from within the School itself - the exception being the School's Student Browsers based in studios which will support email and internet access.

A. Contextual Studies.
This element of the module will introduce you to the broad range of contemporary theoretical
practices and pespectives so as to enable you to engage critically with the theoretical material in
your own practice and encourage you to contextualize your work.
In particular three main themes will be developed through the module:
1. The Autonomy of the Artist and the Primacy of the Aesthetic Object
2. Challenges to the Unified Authorial Subject and the Autonomous Object.
3. Negotiations between Art and Theory

B. Research Methods.
1. This element of the module will examine and establish research methodologies relevant to your individual proposal
so as to test and monitor the appropriate research methods in a highly articulate way.
2. To enable you to locate, research and analyse any relevant theoretical texts appropriate to your proposal.