The Major in Visual Culture has been developed specifically for the Arts programme borrowing relevant modules and principles from the BA Creative Industries and Visual Culture.
The student will take 50 ECTS of mandatory modules that introduce key concepts in theories of visual culture, aesthetics, and spectacle and cultural formations. The student will also take core modules in research practice archive studies, new media, preparation for writing a text and a capstone Visual Culture Research thesis on a topic of their choice agreed with a supervisor.
The student can chose 30 ECTS from a range of optional modules in histories of modern and contemporary art or design; or from interdisciplinary theory seminars, exploring topics such as body culture, exhibition practice or natural sciences. The student can also chose from larger modules that are based on events organization.
ECTS Credits: 80
- Total Number of Mandatory credits to be taken (excluding the capstone project): 40
- Total Number of Optional credits to be taken: 30
- Total Number of Credits for the Capstone Project:10
What is the latest (semester) a student can select the Major:
Spring Recess 2nd Year
- Key Concepts in Visual Culture
- Philosophy and Aesthetics
- Archive Studies
- Vision and Spectacle
- Theories of Culture
- New Media: Technologies of Today
- Thesis Preparation Visual Culture
- Curating Public Space
- Talking Points
- Whose History?
- Resistance: Cultures of Protest
- Body Culture: The Visualised Self Today
- Design and Society
- Fine Art: Theories of History
- VC1: ABC’s of Typographic History
- FA2: The Legacies of Modernism
- Modernism and Modernisms
- Modernism and Modernisms
- Fine Art 3: Postmodern and Contemporary Practices.
- I&F 3: Design Now
- VC3: Design Now Graphics
- Visual Culture of Natural Sciences
- Art & Society
- Body Culture: The Self Visualised
- Myth Today
- Narrative in Visual Culture
- Exhibiting Memory: Cultures of Monuments and Museums
- Capstone:Visual Culture Research Thesis
This Major Stream in Visual Culture enable learners to make a positive contribution to the development of arts and culture in society equipped with the skills to engage productively with key theories of visual culture in relation to contemporary processes, practices and global contexts.
The major stream in Visual Culture highlights multifarious creative and interpretative formations of visual culture and related heritage, and thus advocates respect for diverse cultural expression and heritage. This variety of content and the stream’s interdisciplinary form promotes the following competencies integral to socially relevant, inclusive and sustainable cultural formations:
- Engagement with exploratory thinking, by relating different disciplines through research and /or practice-based pathways
- Cognisance of systems thinking by exploring complexities of constructions and contexts of visual cultural forms
- Openness to novel ways of thinking, and heterogeneous awareness, through exposure to varied contemporary and historical visual cultural formations
- Ability to recognise, value and encourage creativity through interpretation and mediation of cultural heritage
- Support for tolerance and inclusivity in culturally responsive and cogent iterations of identity
- Capacity for critical thinking, by assessing cultural and creative diversities and contingencies
All of these skills will be relevant to further careers and further study that support and develop the field of visual culture, it’s histories and practices.