| Unit name | Research Issues in Art History |
|---|---|
| Unit code | HART31049 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | H/6 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Dr. Dent |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None Co=requisite None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit will demonstrate 'research in action' by presenting the current research interests and strategies of academic tutors. Lectures will address both the subject and methods deployed in current research with the aim to highlight how research is conducted at a professional level. The unit will thus introduce students to the specialist skills necessary for the production of the dissertation, for later employment and/or for further study at postgraduate level.
Aims:
The unit aims at demonstrating a professional level of research activity and outcomes by showing research in action. The team taught unit will highlight contemporary research strategies and highlight the multiple sources deployed by academic tutors in research-in-practice. These resources may include: research libraries; specialist archives; image libraries (both physical and virtual); newspapers; posters, photographs, film, autobiographies, oral histories, diaries, letters etc. It aims to introduce students to both the possibilities and limitations of sources, what informs historians choices about which sources to use and how, and the ways in which historians interpret sources within historiographical debates.
Students will understand the diverse range of sources and methods utilised by art historians. They will be able to analyze and reflect critically upon the possibilities and limitations of these sources and consider how they might best be deployed in the production of research oriented outputs. Students will be able to make informed decisions about which sources to draw upon for their dissertation and to reflect upon the possibilities and limitations of those sources.
20 lectures plus online resources on blackboard.
4000 word essay (100%).
As this unit prioritizes the presentation of academic tutors current research activities, key reading.
And references will necessarily change from year to year.
