Module manager: Prof. Gail Day
Email: G.A.Day@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
| ARTF1300 | Ways of Seeing |
ARTF1015
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module considers some of the ideological and conceptual frames associated with, and shaping, the act of ‘seeing’. It develops awareness of the ‘structures for seeing’, the constructions of ‘meaning’, and interrogates notions such as ‘observation’, ‘description’ and ‘interpretation’ (‘rhetoric of the image’, ‘theory-dependence of observation’). Through its guided-learning resources and exercises, seminar discussions and skills workshops, the module develops independent learning, critical thinking, visual analysis, attentive reading, and reflective and academic writing.
This module extends awareness of ‘ways of seeing’ to the ‘ways of thinking seeing’.
You diversify and deepen your understanding of the ways in which the visual is employed in our culture. Additionally, you encounter some key theories and begin to understand how the visual has been thought about critically. Evaluating how our culture conveys and constructs social meanings and values, you will recognise the ideological and conceptual structures for seeing, and how ‘visual’ experiences and representations entwine with ‘verbal’ ones.
The module develops confidence in looking, reading, discussing, writing, and visual-thinking. Through your engagements with the module’s guided-learning and exercises, seminar discussions and workshops, you develop the skills needed in undergraduate study of art: independent learning; critical thinking; visual analysis; attentive reading; and how to articulate your ideas in reflective and academic writing.
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
1. Identify how visual experiences typically combine with aural and verbal components (explicitly or implicitly)
2. Interpret how meaning, thoughts, ideologies, desires, and fantasies are mobilised through visual, aural and verbal rhetoric.
3. Respond critically to visual and verbal texts through reflective and academic writing.
4. Read attentively to recognise arguments (in texts on vision and visual culture), distinguishing between authorial and reported speech.
Skills learning outcome
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
5. Demonstrate the ability to communicate subject knowledge effectively through means of visual and written communication, using relevant evidence and sources to support your arguments.
6. Think critically by developing the ability to weigh up different arguments and perspectives, using supporting evidence to form opinions, arguments, theories and ideas.
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| seminars | 10 | 2 | 20 |
| Practicals | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Private study hours | 178 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 22 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Students are offered opportunities for formative feedback at the following points of the module:
Weekly: during discussions with seminar assistants, receiving verbal feedback on their ideas.
Development Week: students have opportunity to receive formative written feedback on their early-stage coursework in progress.
Week 24: students can use this seminar to discuss and receive verbal feedback on their plans for the end-of-term essay
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Written | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 8/23/2024
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