View Specification DocumentArt and Place HISTART5166
- Academic Session: 2026-27
- School: School of Culture and Creative Arts
- Credits: 20
- Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
- Typically Offered: Either Semester 1 or Semester 2
- Available to Visiting Students: Yes
- Collaborative Online International Learning: No
- Curriculum For Life: No
Short Description
This course will explore the implications of current scholarly concerns with issues of place for the study of art history. It will introduce students to how the making, display and reception of works of art might be understood as locatable or situated as well as how images have helped shape a 'sense of place', that is, the variously expressive and emotive attachments, whether imagined, voiced, or lived, people associate with particular locations or environments, across a broad range of historical and cultural contexts.
Timetable
8 x 1 hr lectures, 8 x 1 hr seminars, 2 x 2 hr site visit.
Requirements of Entry
Standard entry to Masters at College level.
Excluded Courses
None
Assessment
The standard assessments for this course are:
■ Essay (3,500 words) - 80%
■ Oral presentation submitted subsequently in written format (1,000 words) - 20%.
If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available:
■ There is no alternative to the essay, but a flexible deadline can be offered as reasonable adjustments (students should follow the usual process for extensions)
■ Recorded presentation or one-to-one presentation (to the lecturer) as an alternative to the oral presentation.
Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.
Course Aims
The course aims to:
• enable students to identify, understand, evaluate and discuss varying approaches to issues of place in art-historical practice.
• engage students in debate and critical reflection on issues of place in art history.
• support students' development and application of advanced research methods in written and other work such as oral and visual presentation.
Intended Learning Outcomes of Course
By the end of this course students will be able to:
• evaluate key methodological and theoretical approaches to place and their relevance to art historical practices
• analyse and critique the strengths, weaknesses and potential of the ideas and material discussed in existing research and their implications for their own work
• produce sustained arguments in both written and oral form, based on the variety of theoretical issues raised by the course in the research and interpretation of works of art and artistic practice