2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

ARTF5111M Art of the Silk Roads

30 creditsClass Size: 10

Module manager: Dr Eva Frojmovic
Email: E.Frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

You will study the art of some key centres along the routes and networks known as the late antique/medieval ‘Silk Roads’. You will explore cultural connectivity, collaboration, and innovation, ideas about borders, cultural and religious identity, migration, and appropriation. You will study artistic techniques and materials, and how artefacts were created, exchanged, looted, censored, destroyed, and repurposed through time and across geographies. Along the way you will critique key concepts such as “global”, “world-system”, “entanglement”.

Objectives

The objectives of this module are to provide students with an interdisciplinary perspective on the art and cultures of the Silk Roads and to enable them to think critically about modern definitions of networks, borders and the “global”, as well as disciplinary and theoretical paradigms. As a complex of hubs and connective roadways the Silk Roads helped to facilitate not only artistic exchange but also generated fluid and evolving cultures that encouraged artistic and technological innovation across multiple political, religious, and social formations.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Describe the visual similarities and differences and interrelations that distinguish the art produced by the different cultures and religions that were part of the Silk Roads
2. Engage with and deploy the methodologies and theoretical frameworks that have informed the study of the art of the Silk Roads.
3. Analyse and compare material regionally, inter-regionally, and across disciplinary boundaries from a variety of theoretical perspectives and/or methodological approaches.
4. Undertake independent research and to critically assess both the primary and secondary sources consulted.

Skills learning outcomes
5. The ability to deliver effective and engaging oral and visual presentations to a variety of audiences
6. The ability to write in a clear, concise, focused and structured manner that is supported by relevant evidence.

Syllabus

Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Supervision	2	0.50	1.00
Fieldwork	1	4.00	4.00
Seminar	10	3.00	30.00
Private study hours			265.00
Total Contact hours			35.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Formative feedback will be offered Regular in-class presentations and on the first essay, and on the presentation (for the second essay) feeding into preparation for the second essay.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Coursework	Written	40.00
Coursework	Written	60.00
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: 29/08/2024 11:06:50

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