Art and Place HISTART5166

  • Academic Session: 2025-26
  • 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

One Essay (3,500 words) worth 80%, plus oral presentation submitted subsequently in written format (1,000 words), worth 20%.

Are reassessment opportunities available for all summative assessments? Not applicable for Honours courses

Reassessments are normally available for all courses, except those which contribute to the Honours classification. Where, exceptionally, reassessment on Honours courses is required to satisfy professional/accreditation requirements, only the overall course grade achieved at the first attempt will contribute to the Honours classification. For non-Honours courses, students are offered reassessment in all or any of the components of assessment if the satisfactory (threshold) grade for the overall course is not achieved at the first attempt. This is normally grade D3 for undergraduate students and grade C3 for postgraduate students. Exceptionally it may not be possible to offer reassessment of some coursework items, in which case the mark achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade. Any such exceptions for this course are described below. 

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

 

 

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.