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| Course Structure and content The MA Visual Culture is comprised of Core and Option modules. Students must complete all core modules, plus four option modules. Compulsory Core Modules >>Visual Culture: Production Display and Discourse This single module is an introduction to the question ‘what is visual culture?’ Contemporary and traditional visual media are explored from different social and cultural perspectives >>Visual Culture: Theoretical and Critical Perspectives This module addresses the complex theoretical debates that surround visual culture, and will provide an introduction to the way theories and objects constitute one another. >>Research Methodologies and Dissertation Supported by workshops, group and individual tutorials students will be asked to present a essay on a chosen methodology at the end of the semester two and a 10-12,000-word dissertation or equivalent piece of work on a topic agreed with their tutor at the end of the year. Option Modules >>Interpreting Space This module will study the way that various forms of space are used and how they are represented visually – from architectural and urban spaces , public and private spaces, inhabited and non–inhabited spaces - to virtual spaces.>>Representing World Cultures This module aims to look at the issues and practices involved in representing world cultures to diverse audiences in Western Museums. Visits are made to major ethnographic museums in the capital >>Creative Digital Technology within the Arts and Contemporary Culture This module examines how digital technology is shaping new possibilities for the arts and for culture. In particular it aims to address how new creative concerns and forms have emerged; how the old spaces of culture are being challenged and new spaces are arising; and how digital technology offers new ways of working with communities, audiences and participants. >>Work Placement This module is an practice based program that allows the student access to professional working enviroments. Students are taught through group sessions and mentoring .>>Inclusive Practice on Museums This vocational module examines issues of access in working with specific target audiences including black and ethnic minority groups; socially disadvantaged; people with sight and hearing and physical impairments; mental health issues and learning difficulties; the young and the elderly>>Chinese Film and Media Studies The module examines contemporary Chinese film and media in terms of the issues of representation and epistemologies. It surveys film and media from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Hollywood and locates film within global and national cultural politics.Assessment There are no exams. Each module is marked on coursework which may be an essay, a visual report, a group or individual presentation, or a visual and written log book. Students may also elect to present their work, where appropriate, in an alternative format such as a web site, a CD Rom or a photo essay. |
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