100% COURSEWORK consisting of a presentation and an illustrated and referenced written assignment of 4000 words.

Seminar sessions will consist of students giving informal presentations on their work that will lead to the identification of contexts and avenues of theoretical enquiry applicable to their practice. Students will then deliver a formal presentation on their work that engages with appropriate contexts and theoretical frameworks. Students will elaborate and expand on this presentation in a written assignment that should be illustrated and referenced according to academic protocol.

Slide projection facilities and suitable accommodation for the presentation of work
Access to library and slide library
Computing workshop

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.

As appropriate to the ideas and issues raised by your studio practice.
Indicative reading:

Edwards, S. (1999) Art and its Histories: A Reader, Yale Univ. Press in association with the Open University, London and New Haven.
Thomas, J. (ed., 2001) Reading Images Palgrav
Woodward, K. (2004) Questioning Identity: Gender, Class and Ethnicity, Routledge

Students are expected to take advantage of the extensive library facilites available within the University; keeping abreast of current developments through appropriate peridoicals and being aware of the work of major practitioners in their subject.

To encourage you to assess critically the practical implications of various theoretical perspectives; to assist you in the integration of theory and practice in your own work; to enable you to articulate theoretical positions in relation to your visual art practice, in both written and verbal forms.

You will begin the module with a series of group discussions and individual tutorial sessions with tutors during which time you will prepare to present your work to the group in the latter half of the semester. Through the course of the semester, you will collect a 'dossier' of discussions, debates and negotiations made between you and other students and the tutors. This material will help form part of the assessment of the module.

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.