2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

ARTF5254M Critical Issues

15 creditsClass Size: 80

Module manager: Dr Liz Stainforth
Email: e.m.stainforth@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Module replaces

ARTF5680M & ARTF5801M

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

In Critical Issues you will be supported to locate interpretive, conservation, curatorial or marketing practices in the context of current conceptual and professional debates. A key strand of the module will enable you to develop your own mini-research project. You will be supported through the classroom teaching to develop a research question, a reading list, an appropriate methodology and to carry it out.

Objectives

The module is designed to build your critical and research skills in both an academic and professional context. A key objective is to enable you to use examples of art gallery, museum or heritage practice or the experiencing of visiting exhibitions or sites as sources for research. You will be introduced to appropriate methods and approaches to investigate their questions. The module has been developed to build the skills you will need for undertaking your MA dissertation projects.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module you will be able to:
1. Identify ways in which interpretive, conservation, curatorial and marketing practices can be adapted and developed to create new possibilities for audience engagement, for research and for political debate.
2. Use case studies as learning and research resources
3. Develop, carry out and write up your own small scale research projects in response to the ideas discussed in class.

Skills learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
4. Critical Thinking: The ability to weigh up different arguments and perspectives, using supporting evidence to form opinions, arguments, theories and ideas.
5. Information Searching: The ability to search for, evaluate and use appropriate and relevant information sources to help strengthen the quality of academic work and independent research

Syllabus

Critical Issues will draw on a range of philosophical and practice-engaged debates – as well as case studies – to enable you to critically analyse what is at stake in interpretive, conservation, curatorial and marketing practices. You can frame your assessments – a mini research project – either around a critique of existing practices, accounts of innovative work or give an account of an imagined experimental intervention.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
seminars	6	1.50	9.00
Fieldwork	1	7.00	7.00
Private study hours			134.00
Total Contact hours			16.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Presentations on plans for the research and essay

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Coursework	Written	100.00
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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