Module Descriptors
THINKING WITH HANDS AND EYES LEVEL 6
PHIL60146
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 6
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Hugh Burnham
Email: H.D.Burnham@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 24
Independent Study Hours: 126
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
  • COURSEWORK -ESSAY weighted at 30%
  • CRITICAL ANALYSIS weighted at 70%
Module Details
Module Resources
Library, IT facilities
Module Learning Strategies
Contact time will be divided into lectures and seminars. The lectures will be responsible for contextualising themes, describing models and exhibiting good analytical practice. The seminars will be for clarification, and for students to pursue and practice analysis.
Module Indicative Content
This module concerns itself with some of the various models that have been suggested for how we should understand the cognitive capacity of visual images. Such models could include: visual semiotics and structuralism, phenomenological accounts, visual informatics and organisation, Cartesian and Freudian accounts of imagery, Bachelard, & etc.

The module will seek to explicate and analyse some of these approaches by practical application of them to visual images drawn from a variety of genres or periods.
Module Additional Assessment Details
A short visual analysis essay of 1200 words [Learning Outcome 1].
A research essay critically examining an approach to visual cognition 2800 words [Learning Outcomes 1,2]
Module Texts
Alperson, ed. The Philosophy of the Visual Arts. Oxford UP, 1992.
Flusser. Towards a Philosophy of Photography. Reaktion, 2000.
Levin, ed. Sites of Vision. MIT, 1999.
Roskill, ed. Truth and Falsehood in Visual Images. U. Massachusets, 1992.
Warburton. The Philosophy of Photography. Routledge, 2007.