2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

ARTF2207 Power and Practice

20 creditsClass Size: 25

Module manager: Dr James Lavender
Email: j.lavender@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

Module replaces

ARTF2048 – Vision, Discourse, Power and Practice

This module is approved as a discovery module

Module summary

A detailed critical exploration of the conceptual matrix of power and practice as elaborated in the work of a range of key thinkers including Michel Foucault, Bernard Stiegler, Catherine Malabou and Michel DeCerteau and an exploration of its practical, political, aesthetic and ethical import with reference to other key thinkers.

Objectives

Students will be introduced to the main themes of the module through the key works of Michel Foucault in these areas. The first three weeks will be dedicated to offering a methodological groundwork for critically exploring how regimes of power and practice become established as part of historical and epistemological formations.The main critical focus of these weeks will be the work of Michel Foucault and Bernard Stiegler Weeks four through to eight of the module will proffer case-based explorations of how these themes play out in a range of different kinds of practice, using the work of thinkers including Michel de Certeau (reading) Catherine Malabou (writing), Tim Ingold (drawing) and Tia DeNora (listening).

Learning outcomes
To be able to think critically and reflectively regarding the main philosophical and historical themes and concepts associated with the work of Foucault, with a mind to exploring how the past constitutes a 'history of the present.' To be able to link these themes and concepts to contemporary social, political, ethical and aesthetic concerns, and to explore how philosophy can contribute to the practice of lived experience capable and forms of participatory critique.

Skills outcomes
Critical thinking, reading and writing; verbal skills; independent research.

Syllabus

Key themes/concepts: acting out, discipline, discourse, everyday life, knowledge, lived experience, normalization, placticity, power, practice, strategy, tactics, technologies of the self and wayfaring.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	10	1.00	10.00
Seminar	10	1.00	10.00
Private study hours			180.00
Total Contact hours			20.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

Students are expected to undertaken extensive independent learning and research for this module in order to gain an in-depth critical understanding of a difficult philosophical thinker.
They are also expected to develop key skills in the area of independentresearch/scholarship to a degree concomitant with this level of study, in order to prepare them for their dissertations.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress is formatively monitored through class discussions and class presentations, and is summatively assessed through their final essay submission.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	3000 word essay	60.00
Presentation	10-15 minute verbal presentation	40.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 23/01/2018

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