Liberal Arts
Practising Systems: How to Disrupt and Create
Module code: Q9113
Level 4
15 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Workshop, Fieldwork
Assessment modes: Portfolio
Building on the skills developed in Practicing Humanities 1, this module will develop students’ skills in recording observations and presenting them using a number of approaches. They will also reflect on the implications of different approaches, thinking about the ways that different modes of representation impact on the meaning of what we want to say or share, and how the medium through which we disseminate ideas impacts on the type of audience most likely to engage with them. It proceeds by analysing a range of approaches using specific case studies, arranged across a series of weekly seminars, that may include: podcasts, documentary film, essay writing, blogs, critical art practice, community art projects, poetry, and oral histories. Alongside this, students will be introduced to the specific skills required to produce these different types of content in order to produce a project of their own.
Module learning outcomes
- Recognise the importance of self-evaluation and employ appropriate modes of reflexivity and evaluation; recognise the value of ‘failure.’
- Produce and draw on a range of secondary and primary source material, including research, in a variety of forms and contexts (such as fieldwork, consultation, archive) for projects¿and assessment.
- Understand norms and conventions (institutional, social, systemic, market) and the value of questioning or disrupting them.
- Undertake complex projects; form contingency plans and resilience measures to complete projects.