AR120-4-SP-CO:
Space, Place and Locality
2023/24
Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies (School of)
Colchester Campus
Spring
Undergraduate: Level 4
ReassessmentOnly
Monday 15 January 2024
Friday 22 March 2024
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05 October 2021
Requisites for this module
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This module examines relationships between art, architecture and visual culture, and the spaces, places and localities from which they emerge. We will consider the ways in which artworks both emerge from and produce their settings.
Asking what might be at stake in renouncing the boundary between art and its surroundings, the module will explore how conventional definitions of the artistic medium have expanded at different historical moments.
The aims of this module are:
1. to introduce students to a wide range of methods, research materials, scholarly approaches and relevant terminology associated with a study of art history, architecture, and visual culture more generally;
2. to stimulate students to develop skills in oral and written communication through an essay, debate in seminars, and an examination;
3. to enable students to think critically about relationships between space, place and visual culture.
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
1. demonstrate a sound grasp of the history, art and culture of the case studies examined;
2. demonstrate the ability to interpret visual culture based on knowledge of the appropriate historical and interpretative contexts;
3. demonstrate the ability to reflect critically on relationships between space, place, and visual culture.
By the end of the module, students should have acquired a set of transferable skills, and in particular be able to:
1. define the task in which they are engaged and exclude what is irrelevant;
2. seek and organise the most relevant discussions and sources of information;
3. process a large volume of diverse and sometimes conflicting arguments;
4. compare and evaluate different arguments and assess the limitations of their own position or procedure;
5. write and present verbally a succinct and precise account of positions, arguments, and their presuppositions and implications;
6. be sensitive to the positions of others and communicate their own views in ways that are accessible to them;
7. think 'laterally' and creatively (i.e., to explore interesting connections and possibilities, and to present these clearly rather than as vague hunches);
8. maintain intellectual flexibility and revise their own position based on feedback;
9. think critically and constructively.
No additional information available.
There will be a two-hour combined lecture and seminar each week.
There will also be Reading Week when no teaching will take place.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
1500 word essay |
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| Exam |
Main exam: Remote, Open Book, 24hr during Summer (Main Period)
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| Exam |
Reassessment Main exam: Remote, Open Book, 24hr during September (Reassessment Period)
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
artquery@essex.ac.uk
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Dr Dominic Paterson
University of Glasgow
Senior Lecturer in History of Art / Curator of Contemporary Art
Available via Moodle
Of 422 hours, 18 (4.3%) hours available to students:
404 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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