| Module Brief | LEEDS COLLEGE OF ART | |
| Programme Title BA (Hons) Photography | Level 4 | |
| Module Title Context of Practice 1 | Module Code OUph401 | |
| Brief Title Histories and Genres | ||
| Weighting of Brief within Module 100% | Module Credits 20 | |
| Tutor(s) Helen Clarke | ||
Context
This module provides an introduction to the contextual and historical background of art, design and media, alongside considering relationships between theory and practice. Students enhance their contextual knowledge and understanding, together with their own critical awareness and develop the ability to situate their practice within a global context. Through seminars, lectures and tutorials, students investigate their own discipline and also the broader cultural and contextual frameworks that are influential to the fields of art, design and media. For example, questions around identity, values, class, race, geopolitics, globalisation, sustainability, technology, materials and creativity form part of that investigation.
Brief
You will develop an understanding of the several ‘histories’ of photography and of it’s genres. You will also look at how these function in a wider cultural context (in relation to other creative and technical fields both inside and outside of art, design and media).
In doing so you will learn to develop a visual language, which can be used to analyse your own work and that of other photographic practitioners.
These skills will be demonstrated by the production of :
· A photographic work based on the ‘Histories and Genres’ brief
· A portfolio of notes from lectures and seminars, and from tasks completed in class
· A photographic/critical notebook or blog
· A 1,000 word essay on an appropriate subject that demonstrates that you have understood the nature of academic writing. In particular this essay should aim to include the following:
A logical structure that has an introduction, a developed argument that is supported by reference to at least four different academic sources and a conclusion.
A bibliography of at least 8 academic sources that uses the Harvard referencing system.
The use of Harvard conventions within the main text of the essay when using paraphrase or quoting from other authors.
Useful Reading
Berger, John (1972) Ways of Seeing, London, Penguin books
Clarke, Graham (1997) The Photograph, Oxford University Press
Newhall, Beaumont (1982) The history of photography: from 1839 to the present, Secker
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Preparation/Research Suggestions
- Sylvan Barnet’s book A Short Guide to Writing about Art is an excellent source to use for this brief when writing your essay. See pages 29-31 on ‘context’, pages 53-53 on ‘form’ and ‘content’, pages 113-116 on doing ‘formal analysis’, and on writing clearly and economically, pages 187-219.
- Use your module handbook which should guide you through the module and have useful information such as, bibliographies, glossaries etc.
- Use the OU website for learning how to use Harvard referencing in depth : http://library.open.ac.uk/help/howto/citeref/
- Use good quality dictionaries and specialist art and design dictionaries for difficult vocabulary.
- Use On-line Journals Database information – in particular http://www.jstor.org/ you will be able to search keywords and get references to written articles in back issues of journals.
- Use current art and design journals.
- Leeds College of Art & Design Regulations Handbook for Undergraduates, section on ‘Plagiarism’.
- http://www.studyskills.soton.ac.uk/studytips/reading_skills.htm for help with how to read academically
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