Module Details

Module Code: RECH H3701
Module Title: Visual Methodologies and Research Proposal
Title: Visual Methodologies and Research Proposal
Module Level:: 7
Credits:: 5
Module Coordinator: Karen Hennessy
Module Author:: Orla Ryan
Domains:  
Module Description: This module aims to develop learner knowledge of how critical theory and philosophical ideas are developed and used to discuss contemporary art and visual culture. The module expands the learners’ critical vocabulary around the interpretation of contemporary art and culture. Learners’ will examine different interpretative strategies such as semiotics, psychoanalytic theory, discourse analysis and audience studies. The module shows how artists are often in conversation with cultural theories such as concepts of the gaze, spectatorship, the politics of representation, embodied knowledges, feminist and queer art studies, race and postcolonialism. A central aim of the module is to develop and encourage learners' confidence in interpreting contemporary art. The module expands learner knowledge by concentrating on a range of reading and writing skills in preparation for thesis module in stage 4.
 
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to:
# Learning Outcome Description
LO1 Identify and describe various interpretative strategies used to understand Contemporary art and culture.
LO2 Develop and demonstrate a confident engagement with critical writing and reading strategies.
LO3 Construct a writing project which analyzes, evaluates and creates a critical and insightful research proposal.
Dependencies
Module Recommendations

This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is recommended before enrolment in this module.
No recommendations listed
Co-requisite Modules
No Co-requisite modules listed
Additional Requisite Information
No Co Requisites listed
 
Indicative Content
Aesthetics/Ethics
Introduction to the field of Aesthetics. Aesthetics as a field of enquiry in relation to sensory perception
'The Good Eye'
looking at images- interpreting composition
Content Analysis
What do you see/hear in the work
Semiotics
how do signs make meaning
Psychoanalysis
The image and the unconscious
Discourse Analysis
Intertextuality and context
The Gaze
Concepts of the gaze
Power and Knowledge
Images and Ideology
Theories of Embodiment
Art and embodiment
Module Content & Assessment
Assessment Breakdown%
Continuous Assessment100.00%

Assessments

Full Time

Continuous Assessment
Assessment Type Reflective Journal % of Total Mark 20
Timing n/a Learning Outcomes 1,2
Non-marked No
Assessment Description
Weekly journal reflecting on learners' engagement in assessing different theoretical approaches to contemporary art related to learners' specific interests.
Assessment Type Project % of Total Mark 80
Timing n/a Learning Outcomes 1,2,3
Non-marked No
Assessment Description
Write a critical research proposal based on a self initiated topic related to contemporary art or culture. Research proposal will include an annotated bibliography.
No Project
No Practical
No End of Module Formal Examination
Reassessment Requirement
Coursework Only
This module is reassessed solely on the basis of re-submitted coursework. There is no repeat written examination.
Reassessment Description
Marks for all assignments are collated at the end of each semester. If a student fails to complete an assignment, re-assessment can take place if the student obtains the agreement of the lecturer to submit completed work at the end of the semester.

SETU Carlow Campus reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment

 

Module Workload

Workload: Full Time
Workload Type Workload Category Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Lecture Contact No Description Every Week 2.00 2
Independent Learning Non Contact Reading, listening, viewing and developing research proposal. Every Week 4.00 4
Total Weekly Contact Hours 2.00
 
Module Resources
Recommended Book Resources
  • Beshty, Walaed. (2015), Ethics, MIT Press, [ISBN: 978026252718].
  • Anne D'Alleva. (2012), Methods & Theories of Art History, Laurence King Publishing, p.192, [ISBN: 9781856698993].
  • Mirzoeff, Nicholas. (2013), Visual Culture Reader, 3rd edition. Routledge, London, [ISBN: 978-04157826].
  • Rose, Gillian. (2016), Visual Methodologies, An Introduction of Visual Materials, 4th. Sage, London, [ISBN: 978147394890].
  • Sturken, Marita & Cartwright, Lisa. (2017), Practices of Looking, an introduction to visual culture, 3rd. Open University Press, London, [ISBN: 978019026571].
  • Williams, Gilda. (2014), How to write of Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson, London, [ISBN: 978-050029157].
  • Ward, Ossian. (2014), Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art, Laurence King Publishing, [ISBN: 978178067193].
  • Sunil Manghani. (2012), Image Studies, Routledge, p.271, [ISBN: 9780415573405].
This module does not have any article/paper resources
Other Resources
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