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• Use a still camera, video camera and audio recorder on full manual controls.
• Understand how audio/visual research tools can be used critically on social science research projects.
• Contribute to current debates about the limits of current research dissemination methods and to think critically about the future of research outputs.
• Understand the significance and debates in geography in regard to non-representational theory and how these research forms inform those debates.
• Critically analyse theory and empirical examples of experimental work through time, where it has succeeded, where it has failed and what we have learned from it all.
• Make your own piece of independent work, which will incorporate ‘creative’ methods broadly.
• Appreciate the ways in which geographical theory can help us understand experimental and creative work and how this work shapes the way we think and act.
• Debate current issues around this topic at the cutting edge of technology.
• Marshal and retrieve information from the library, internet resources and audio/visual material.
• Critically evaluate literature about multi-media geographies, including inter-disciplinary literature.
• Appreciate the role of audio, video and photography in and beyond geography.
• Reinforce and enhance debates around how geographies can specifically use these tools to inform notions of space, place, mobility and place-based creativity.
• Understand the history of multi-media work in social science, and how it has changed through time.
• Photographic Methods
• Sonic Methods
• Videographic Methods
• Editing, Audiencing and Publishing
• Technology and the Body
• Art and Activism
| Student Effort Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Lectures | 9 |
| Practical | 18 |
| Field Trip/External Visits | 8 |
| Autonomous Student Learning | 70 |
| Total | 105 |
Not applicable to this module.
| Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assignment: Either as an individual or a group, you put together a creative project: a 5-7 minute video, 10-12 minute audio recording or 20-photo essay submitted for the class to watch/view/view and discuss. | Week 7 | n/a | Graded | No | 50 |
| Essay: A 2000 word essay written as a critical reflection on your creative work. This must be sole-authored. | Week 12 | n/a | Graded | No | 50 |
| Remediation Type | Remediation Timing |
|---|---|
| Repeat | Within Two Trimesters |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
The creative project will be watched/viewed/listened to and discussed in class in week 10. Assessment will be given on an individual basis after group discussions. For group projects, each group member will receive the same mark. The reflective essay will be submitted individually and assessed at the end of term.