SHORT COURSES 2015/16
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1 Welcome 4 6 26 2 About Our Courses Short Courses 4 Archaeology 6 Art Drawing and Painting | Photography and Video Portfolio Preparation | Printmaking and Paper Sculpture 34 38 48 26 Art History 34 Creative Writing 38 Design Jewellery and Glass | Textiles Visual Communication 48 Film, Media and Contemporary Cultures 54 62 70 54 History 62 Literature 70 Music 74 Personal Development 74 76 84 76 Philosophy and Religion 80 Psychology and Language Sciences 84 Science and Nature 88 Society and Politics 92 Overview of Short Courses 2015 –16 80 88 102 How to Enrol 104 Help with Fees 107 Enrolment Form Welcome 1
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Session 1 – 28 September 2015 Our programme includes credit and non-credit The Certificate of Higher Education is a national Session 2 – 11 January 2016 courses. Each credit course in this brochure is qualification, recognised by many employers and Session 3 – 11 April 2016 marked with the amount of credit awarded. All credit other universities. To achieve this award, you have courses are at level seven in the Scottish Credit and up to five years to accumulate 120 credit points by Qualifications Framework – first year undergraduate/ studying a combination of any credit courses from Course Venues HNC/Advanced Higher level. Credit courses are the Short Courses programme. Many of our short courses take place at the designed for students who want to study for credit, For more information visit: University’s Holyrood Campus at Paterson’s Land but but are also open to non-credit students. www.ed.ac.uk/short-courses where appropriate we use other University buildings You need to ‘opt in’ to credit on our credit courses. or contact Reception 0131 650 4400 nearby and alternative venues in the city. Details of all This is a separate process from enrolment and course venues are available from our website. Prepare for Undergraduate Entry paying the course fee. You do not need to decide if Please note that course venues may change from you wish to pursue credit study until the beginning Are you interested in applying for a degree course those advertised, and we recommend that you of the course. To earn credit, you must register as a in the Humanities and Social Sciences? Through check our website a few days before your course University of Edinburgh student. This will entitle you our Credit for Entry scheme, you can study Short starts, or alternatively please contact Reception at to apply for a student card and give you access to Courses for credit and gain the qualifications for Paterson’s Land. University services. Because our courses are short, entry to many Humanities and Social Science Paterson’s Land and Thomson’s Land you need to decide whether or not to take a course degrees. Contact Reception for an application form. Holyrood Road EH8 8SQ for credit at the start of each teaching session, and For more details, please see the Credit for Entry www.ed.ac.uk/maps?building=patersons-land return an ‘Intention to Study Credit’ form to us by the leaflet, available from Reception, or visit our website. end of week two. Edinburgh College of Art Please note: acceptance onto the Credit for Entry Lauriston Place EH3 9DF For full details about registering and studying for scheme is by interview. You should formally apply to www.ed.ac.uk/maps?building=eca-main- credit, please check our website: the Credit for Entry scheme BEFORE enrolling on building www.ed.ac.uk/short-courses any Short Courses. On our website, you can also find the Studying for Credit Guide and detailed course information sheets which give more details on what is involved. About Our Courses 3
Credit Plus Courses LANGUAGES FOR ALL These are credit courses with study and essay writing skills built in. They are designed for students who want to study for credit at university level for the first time, or in a subject they haven’t studied before.
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How Art Works (p.26)
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Introducing Literature 2 (p.66) Thinking about learning a new language or All the languages we offer start with beginners’ Learning to Philosophise (p.77) building on your existing language skills? courses and many continue to advanced levels. Visit our website to view the content of each Introducing Social Science (p.89) In addition to our Short Courses provision, course and to assess how suitable the course is Languages for All at the Office of Lifelong Introducing Sociology (p.91) for you. For full course details and online booking Learning teaches over 20 languages. please visit: Courses are available in: {ILA} ‘ILA Approved’– All courses approved by SDS www.ed.ac.uk/studying/short-courses/ ILA carry this symbol. You may use your ILA learner Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Czech, Danish, languages Dutch, French, Gaelic, German, Irish, Italian, account towards the fee (see page 105 for details). Please enquire about our discounts for University Japanese, Latin, Modern Greek, Norwegian, staff and students. Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. 4 Short Courses | Archaeology | September 2015 – June 2016
ARCHAEOLOGY Archaeology of Scotland: The Vikings of the North Atlantic Stone and Bronze, the Early Prehistory Kristian L. R. Pedersen BIS FSA Scot Course Organiser: Martine Pierquin MA MSc DPSI Dorothy Graves McEwan BA MSc PhD Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm
[email protected] Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc 1 10 Old Medical School, 0 £105/ Teviot Place (enter £70 conc This course explores the rich and varied evidence for the via doorway 4) Scandinavian settlement of Scotland and the expansion A wide-ranging introduction to the culture and into the North Atlantic, which ultimately led to the landscape of early prehistoric Scotland, from the settlement of the Faeroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland. first hunter-gatherers to the origin of metalworking. This survey of archaeological sites will focus on Archaeology of Scotland: Iron Age, the reconstructing the economy, society and ideology of Romans and Early Historic Period prehistoric people. This course provides an opportunity Dorothy Graves McEwan BA MSc PhD to handle excavated materials. Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm
The Eastern Mediterranean in the Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Late Bronze Age 2 10 Old Medical School, 0 £105/ Teviot Place (enter £70 conc Lisa Graham MA MSc (Res) via doorway 4) Tuesdays from 29 September 2.10pm – 4.00pm An introduction to the later prehistoric and protohistoric Session Wks Venue Credits Fee archaeology of Scotland, the course uses sites and material culture to analyse society and culture in 1 10 Old Medical School, 0 £105/ Teviot Place (enter £70 conc Scotland from the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age via doorway 4) to the Kingdom of the Picts. The course provides an opportunity to handle excavated materials. This extraordinary period sees the rise of empires To see an overview of our and a truly international network of trade and Short Courses programme communication between Egypt, the Near East and The Last Hunters and First Farmers of Europe the Aegean. This course will critique both the written Kristian L. R. Pedersen BIS FSA Scot please go to page 92 records and the archaeological evidence before examining each state in more detail. Tuesdays from 12 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm September 2015 – June 2016 | Archaeology | Short Courses 5
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Beyond the Empire: Neanderthals and Archaeology: 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ The Romans in Scotland New Research Developments Holyrood Campus £70 conc Andrew Tibbs MA BA Kristian L. R. Pedersen BIS FSA Scot Recent study of the last hunters and the first farmers Mondays from 11 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 13 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm has transformed our perception of the complexity and richness of their respective cultures. This course Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee emphasises the new discoveries in the British Isles 3 5 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ situating these in a broader European perspective. Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc
Rock Art in Context Scotland was almost unique within the Roman Empire; In the past decade, there have been tremendous advances sometimes within the Empire, sometimes outwith, but in the study of Neanderthals. Genetic studies suggest that Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm never fully assimilated. When it was occupied, Scotland this species contributed to our genetic composition through Session Wks Venue Credits Fee very much remained a military zone with no major inter-breeding. New research has focused on the cultural 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ settlements and no substantial commercial activities. similarities and the nature of cultural relations between Holyrood Campus £70 conc But how much do we actually know about the Roman modern humans and Neanderthals. occupation north of Hadrian’s Wall? For at least the last 40,000 years, our ancestors have carved or painted images onto rock surfaces. Why? The course includes a weekend day trip to the Antonine What do these images tell us about their creators? Wall on Saturday 7 May 2016. This course explores the role rock art plays in human Myths, Monarchs and Monuments of society, both past and present. Ancient Egypt Etruscan Art and Archaeology Thursdays from 14 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Archaeology of the Near East Fiona Mowat MA (Hons) MSc Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Vasiliki Koutrafouri MA PhD {ILA} Tuesdays from 12 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 3 5 Paterson’s Land, 0 £53/ Holyrood Campus £35 conc The aim of the course is to introduce the student to 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc This course will provide an insight into the art ancient Egyptian history, religion and architecture. and archaeology of the Etruscan Civilisation. The Religion is the key to understanding the culture of This course examines archaeological developments ancient Egypt. This course will look at the iconography in the early and later prehistory of the Near East and Etruscans dominated Central and Northern Italy until Mesopotamia. Explore modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel, their absorption into Roman culture by the late first and mythology of Egypt’s main deities, a selection of Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Iran and South-East Turkey century BCE. We will discover their cultural influence, kings/queens and the stories behind some of its most to gain insight into the culture, politics, trade and urbanisation, language and culture, and art and famous monuments. economy of the prehistoric and ancient Near East. archaeology. 6 Short Courses | Art | Drawing and Painting | September 2015 – June 2016
ART Drawing and Painting Patterns in Nature: Static Jane M Weatherly BA MFA {ILA} Course Organiser: Robbie Bushe PG Dip Mondays from 28 September 1.30pm – 4.15pm Painting: Landscapes [email protected] Mondays from 11 April 6.30pm – 9.15pm Paul A Mowat HND BA (Hons) {ILA} Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Mondays from 28 September 9.45am – 12.30pm 1 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £200/ Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Land, Holyrood £150 Campus conc 1 10 Thomson’s 12 10 £200/ Land, Holyrood £150 3 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £200/ Campus conc Land, Holyrood £150 Campus conc Prerequisites: No previous experience required. Prerequisites: No previous experience required. Landscape as inspiration and source material is the In this course, you will research and develop a body of focus for this course, enabling students to make work based on ideas about landscape. A combination mixed media studies and resolved paintings using the of sketchbook research and secondary sources such local rural environment and from personal drawn and as patterns found in geological mapping and fractal photographic references. Exploiting the potential uses growth will be employed. You may expand secondary of inks, graphite, collage, acrylics and oils, students source material to include biological patterns and will explore a range of mark making techniques to will be encouraged to think about landscape in develop their own expressive vocabulary to reveal different ways. You will consider concepts of space, a sense of place, mood and characteristics of rural arrangement, perspective, repetition, flatness and light environments using a range of compositional devices in composing the work produced. Demonstrations and techniques. will inform students of ways to be innovative in their approach to making art that is insightful and expresses an individual viewpoint. September 2015 – June 2016 | Drawing and Painting | Art | Short Courses 7
Drawing: Head Life Study Painting: Towards Mixed Media Foundation Drawing for Beginners
Christine Frew BA (Hons) {ILA} Jane M Weatherly BA MFA {ILA} Jessica Bevan Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm Tuesdays from 29 September 9.45am – 12.30pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Mondays from 11 April 1.30pm – 4.15pm Tuesdays from 12 January 9.45am – 12.30pm
Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 1 10 Edinburgh 12 10 £210/ Tuesdays from 12 April 9.45am – 12.30pm College of Art, £157 Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Lauriston Pl conc 1 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £200/ Land, Holyrood £150 Prerequisites: No previous experience required. Campus conc 1 10 Thomson’s 12 0 £190/ Land, Holyrood £142 The course will provide a concentrated examination 3 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £200/ Campus conc of the head, torso and hands exploring expressive Land, Holyrood £150 Campus conc 2 10 Thomson’s 12 0 £190/ drawing and mixed media approaches. Working Land, Holyrood £142 directly from models, the self-portrait and casts, Prerequisites: No previous experience required. Campus conc you will undertake detailed study of the anatomy, This course will introduce ways of developing artworks 3 10 Thomson’s 12 0 £190/ proportion and character of the head and you will be beyond paint alone using mixed media to create Land, Holyrood £142 Campus conc encouraged to develop a personal approach and images which explore not just colour and shape, expand your skills to produce dynamic and arresting but also surface and texture. You will be encouraged Prerequisites: No previous experience required. head studies. You will be introduced to a range of to experiment, perhaps moving beyond a two- Suitable for complete beginners. historical and contemporary artists whose work dimensional surface, finding the boundaries between This course, for those with little or no experience, will focuses on head study. painting and sculpture. The emphasis will be discovery provide a basic introduction to the fundamentals of and experimentation. the language of drawing from direct observation. You will be guided through approaches and processes of looking and recording using line, colour and composition utilising a range of drawing techniques. Working from studio set ups, interior locations and, finally, following the traditional practice of life drawing, you will build confidence in the use of materials and techniques allowing for more imaginative and distinctive image making by gaining a core understanding of formal visual enquiry. 8 Short Courses | Art | Drawing and Painting | September 2015 – June 2016
Foundation Painting for Beginners Life Drawing: Structure and Form Drawing: Language and Expression 1
Jessica Bevan Paul A Mowat HND BA (Hons) {ILA} Oliver D Reed BA MA PGCHE {ILA} Tuesdays from 29 September 1.30pm – 4.15pm Tuesdays from 29 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm Tuesdays from 29 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm Tuesdays from 12 January 1.30pm – 4.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Wednesdays from 13 April 1.30pm – 4.15pm
Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Fridays from 15 April 1.30pm – 4.15pm 1 10 Edinburgh 12 10 £220/ Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee College of Art, £165 Lauriston Pl conc 1 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £200/ Land, Holyrood £150 1 10 Thomson’s 10 0 £190/ Prerequisites: Some experience of figure drawing Campus conc Land, Holyrood £142 desirable. Campus conc 3 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £200/ With the life figure in a variety of poses as a point of Land, Holyrood £150 2 10 Thomson’s 10 0 £190/ Campus conc Land, Holyrood £142 departure, you will develop a range of approaches to Campus conc the challenges presented by drawing the human form. Prerequisites: Some previous drawing experience desirable. 3 10 Thomson’s 10 0 £190/ The course will examine ways to interpret structure, Land, Holyrood £142 form and proportion and provide an introduction to Drawing is a fundamental activity for all artists and Campus conc the basics of human anatomy exploiting a range of designers. Intended for those with some drawing Prerequisites: No previous experience required. drawing and mixed media techniques to enable a experience who wish to consider developing more Suitable for complete beginners. range of robust and considered outcomes. complex images, this course guides and encourages This course, for those with little or no experience, will you in exploring various approaches, materials, provide a basic introduction to the fundamentals of techniques and scale to develop a personal language. the language of painting from direct observation. You Supported and guided by the tutor and carrying out will be guided through approaches and processes work in your own time, you will gather a range of of looking and recording using line, brushwork, research material based on various themes, such colour and composition utilising a range of painting as drawings and photographs, forming the basis techniques. Working from studio set ups, interior of a working sketchbook and studies, providing a locations and finally following the traditional practice foundation to develop more considered ideas in the of life study, you will build confidence in the use of studio. materials and techniques allowing for more imaginative and distinctive image making by gaining a core understanding of formal visual enquiry. September 2015 – June 2016 | Drawing and Painting | Art | Short Courses 9
Creating Images Contemporary Watercolour Developing a Sketchbook
Robbie Bushe PG Dip {ILA} Oliver D Reed BA MA PGCHE {ILA} Jane M Weatherly BA MFA {ILA} Wednesdays from 30 September 9.45am – 12.30pm Wednesdays from 30 September 1.30pm – 4.15pm Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm
Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Wednesdays from 13 January 1.30pm – 4.15pm Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Thursdays from 14 April 6.30pm – 9.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 1 10 Thomson’s 12 10 £220/ Land, Holyrood £165 Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 1 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £220/ Campus conc Land, Holyrood £165 Prerequisites: Some drawing and painting experience 1 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £200/ Campus conc Land, Holyrood £150 desirable. 2 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £220/ Campus conc Land, Holyrood £165 This course will investigate the process by which 2 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £200/ Campus conc artists find their subjects and how they invent original Land, Holyrood £150 Prerequisites: Some drawing experience desirable. images. You will learn to develop subjects or themes Campus conc for drawing, painting, print, illustration or design, by 3 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £200/ Working both on location and within the studio recording, collecting, editing and manipulating images Land, Holyrood £150 environment, these two courses introduce and develop and objects. You will be taken through an intense Campus conc ways to use a sketchbook as an effective tool to record series of developed drawing, painting and mixed Prerequisites: Some previous drawing experience images and ideas and develop a personal visual media techniques, gaining practical insight into how desirable. language utilising a range of media and techniques. artists discover their visual ideas to create a portfolio The use of watercolour as an expressive visual Your sketchbook will act as a reminder of previous of compositional studies that you may continue to medium is often typecast to convey dramatic and experiences or sets of ideas and in session 1, you will develop. floodlit views of the sea, the sky and the land. This new learn a range of approaches and techniques to help course aims to explore and expand the possibilities you achieve this. The session 2 course is designed to of working with watercolours and inks as a more extend the scope of how an art and design sketchbook contemporary medium. You will explore and interrogate can operate as a tool to record visual images to various materials, techniques and processes based reveal a more focussed personal visual language for a on studio set-ups, location based studies and moving particular range of media and techniques. through to developing works from personal imagery. 10 Short Courses | Art | Drawing and Painting | September 2015 – June 2016
Introduction to Life Drawing Painting Pictures Painting: The Figure
Graham Flack MFA BA (Hons) Oliver D Reed BA MA PGCHE {ILA} Olivia C Irvine BA Dip PGS MA Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm Thursdays from 1 October 9.45am – 12.30pm
Wednesdays from 13 April 6.30pm – 9.15pm Paul A Mowat HND BA (Hons) {ILA} Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Tuesdays from 12 April 6.30pm – 9.15pm 1 10 Thomson’s 12 0 £210/ 1 10 Edinburgh 12 0 £210/ Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Land, Holyrood £157 College of Art, £157 Campus conc Lauriston Pl conc 1 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £200/ Prerequisites: Some drawing and painting experience 3 10 Thomson’s 10 0 £210/ Land, Holyrood £150 desirable. Land, Holyrood £157 Campus conc Working directly from nude and draped models set Campus conc 3 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £200/ up against a range of environments, this course will Prerequisites: No previous experience required. Land, Holyrood £150 Campus conc introduce you to painting methods and techniques to This course introduces drawing directly from the nude explore ways of examining colour, tone, composition Prerequisites: No previous experience required. life model and you will be given a range of strategies and creating mood. While some emphasis will be This course provides you the opportunity to develop to develop your understanding of the structure and placed on the proportion and form of the figure itself, skills and visual vocabulary to make a series of studies proportion of the human form, while also developing students will also be encouraged to consider ways to and paintings exploring the use of images and illusion and considering a creative and personal approach be expressive in the application of paint to reveal a through a range of traditional as well as experimental using a range of materials and techniques. Over the personal position on the subject. course, you will make a range of studies and more techniques. Visual ideas will be stimulated through resolved drawings and will be encouraged to research ‘point of reference’ observed set ups as well as and follow up your studies and practices using a exploring your own particular visual ideas and sketchbook. circumstances as subject matter. This will include working from still life, the figure, interiors, cityscapes, narratives and from students’ own research to explore compositional and pictorial devices, uses of tone and colour and the application of paint and mixed media to make a series of resolved paintings. September 2015 – June 2016 | Drawing and Painting | Art | Short Courses 11
Revisited Series St Ives Revisited Olivia C Irvine BA Dip PGS MA In each of these five-week taster courses, through a series of studio and location-based exercises, Thursdays from 14 January 1.30pm – 4.30pm you will consider the approaches to subject and Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee pictorial principles of one of four groups of 19th 2 5 Thomson’s 10 0 £100/ and 20th century artists, creating studies which Land, Holyrood £75 bring contemporary relevance to their work by Campus conc creating your own distinct body of works. Prerequisites: No experience required but some previous experience of painting desirable.
The English Modern The Surrealists Revisited St Ives Revisited investigates the work of artists such Romantics Revisited as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Christopher Olivia C Irvine BA Dip PGS MA Wood and Alfred Wallis using mixed media with Olivia C Irvine BA Dip PGS MA Thursdays from 5 November 1.30pm – 4.30pm monochrome, colour, texture and composition to Thursdays from 1 October 1.30pm – 4.30pm reflect on their principles and working methods. Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 1 5 Thomson’s 10 0 £100/ The Scottish Colourists Revisited 1 5 Thomson’s 10 0 £100/ Land, Holyrood £75 Land, Holyrood £75 Campus conc Olivia C Irvine BA Dip PGS MA Campus conc Prerequisites: No experience required but some Thursdays from 18 February 1.30pm – 4.30pm Prerequisites: No experience required but some previous experience of painting desirable. previous experience of painting desirable. Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee The Surrealists Revisited will look at the work of Max The English Modern Romantics Revisited will look Ernst, Leonora Carrington, René Magritte and Frida 2 5 Thomson’s 10 0 £100/ at the work of particular John Piper, Paul Nash, Eric Kahlo. Through a series of studio based exercises Land, Holyrood £75 Campus conc Ravilious and Graeme Sutherland. Through a series of using drawing, painting and collage, students will work practical studio and location based exercises students with narrative, colour and composition. Based on the Prerequisites: No experience required but some will work in mixed media exploring monochrome, principles of the Surrealists, but bringing contemporary previous experience of painting desirable. colour, texture and composition. relevance to the work, this course will develop the use The Scottish Colourists Revisited explores colour, of the imagination in creating imagery. composition and theory to reference the work of the Scottish Colourists; Samuel Peploe, Leslie Hunter, John Duncan Fergusson and Francis Cadell. 12 Short Courses | Art | Drawing and Painting | September 2015 – June 2016
Contemporary Art Research: Introduction to Drawing Beginners Drawing and Painting Developing a Project Paul A Mowat HND BA (Hons) {ILA} Jessica Bevan Ronald J Binnie MFA BA HND {ILA} Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 9.15pm Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 9.15pm Thursdays from 1 October 1.30pm – 4.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 1 10 Edinburgh 12 10 £210/ 1 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £220/ College of Art, £157 Land, Holyrood £165 Lauriston Pl conc 1 10 Thomson’s 12 0 £190/ Campus conc Land, Holyrood £142 Prerequisites: No previous drawing experience Campus conc Prerequisites: No previous drawing experience required. 2 10 Thomson’s 12 0 £190/ required. This course is designed to introduce and develop a Land, Holyrood £142 Campus conc Many artists today are deeply committed to research range of drawing techniques for students both with that informs their art practice. This course is designed and without drawing experience. Beginning with line Prerequisites: No previous experience required – to act as an introduction to establishing and and tone, you will work through a wide range of core suitable for complete beginners. developing serious research methodologies into your drawing skills and disciplines including composition, This course, for students with little or no experience, art practice to deepen and strengthen an engagement colour and expressive mark-making. Each class offers a basic introduction to the language and with areas of personal interest. The course will be session will provide an opportunity to work on and grammar of drawing and painting from direct based on a series of short projects involving visual, exploit ways to use specific drawing materials and observation. Working from studio set ups, the life contextual and personal research created outside the techniques, drawing from architectural interiors, the model and from your own collected visual ideas, you studio and leading to development of studio-based still life, and the human figure as well as from personal will be guided through approaches and processes work. visual research and enquiry. The course will enable of looking and recording using line, tone, colour the development of independent skills and techniques and composition in a range of drawing and painting to record and draw using a sketchbook and working techniques. Over the weeks, you will build confidence towards a series of resolved artworks derived from in the uses of materials and techniques to begin drawn sources. to make more imaginative and distinctive images underpinned by a formal understanding of visual enquiry. September 2015 – June 2016 | Drawing and Painting | Art | Short Courses 13
Painting with Expression The Sunday Draw Painting: Studio Practices
Oliver D Reed BA MA PGCHE {ILA} Christine Frew BA (Hons) Paul A Mowat HND BA (Hons) {ILA}
Fridays from 2 October 9.45am – 12.30pm Sundays from 4 October 9.45am – 4.15pm Sundays from 1 November 9.45am – 4.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Sundays from 17 January 9.45am – 4.15pm Sundays from 21 February 9.45am – 4.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 1 10 Thomson’s 12 10 £200/ Tuesdays from 12 April 1.30pm – 4.15pm Land, Holyrood £150 Campus conc 1 5 Thomson’s 12 0 £190/ Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Land, Holyrood £142 Prerequisites: No previous drawing experience Campus conc 1 5 Thomson’s 12 10 £200/ required. Land, Holyrood £150 2 5 Thomson’s 12 0 £190/ Campus conc This course offers the opportunity to explore a personal Land, Holyrood £142 and expressive language negotiating the creative Campus conc 2 5 Thomson’s 12 10 £200/ Land, Holyrood £150 territory between representation and abstraction. You Prerequisites: No previous art and design experience Campus conc will be given the chance to select from a range of required. 3 10 Thomson’s 12 10 £200/ observed ‘starting points’ in the studio and around the The starting point and theme of each class will be an Land, Holyrood £150 buildings, and during the course will gradually develop exploration of the drawing material itself rather than Campus conc a more expressive, abstract use of your own images, the choice of subject matter. The first class will explore Prerequisites: Some previous drawing and painting underpinned by an understanding of composition and the use of hard and soft pencils, linear variation, cross skills essential. structure. hatching, directional lines, stippling and other mark This course enables those with an existing art practice making to produce a variety of dazzling effects. In to develop a series of ambitious paintings derived the subsequent classes, students will embark on a from interrogating and reflecting on your own visual thorough and in-depth process of experimentation with ideas, drawings and studies. You will be introduced each drawing material featured, including combining to a range of approaches to preparing grounds and pencil, charcoal, pastel and ink. painting surfaces to plan and consider how you will develop more resolved paintings which show a coherent and consistent theme. The course is designed to encourage a more independent approach to enable further development of your art practice. 14 Short Courses | Art | Drawing and Painting | September 2015 – June 2016
Painting: Cityscapes Patterns in Nature: Dynamic Painting: Exploring Mixed Media
Paul A Mowat HND BA (Hons) {ILA} Jane M Weatherly BA MFA {ILA} Jane M Weatherly BA MFA {ILA} Mondays from 11 January 9.45am – 12.30pm Mondays from 11 January 1.30pm – 4.15pm Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm
Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee
2 10 Edinburgh 12 10 £200/ 2 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £200/ 2 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £200/ College of Art, £150 Land, Holyrood £150 Land, Holyrood £150 Lauriston Pl conc Campus conc Campus conc Prerequisites: No previous experience required. Prerequisites: Some previous drawing and painting Prerequisites: Some previous drawing and painting experience desirable. experience desirable. Landscape as inspiration and source material is the focus for this course, enabling students to make mixed This course will enable you to research and develop This course will explore and expand ways for you to media studies and resolved paintings using the local a body of work based on ideas about group animal develop and combine drawing, painting and mixed urban environment and from personal drawn and behaviour on land, sea or in air. A combination of media to create studies and images which aspire photographic references. Exploiting the potential uses sketchbook research and secondary sources such as to the development of a distinctive personal visual of inks, graphite, collage, acrylics and oils, students patterns of migration and weather will be employed language. You will be challenged on the boundaries will explore a range of mark making techniques to to visualise concepts of time, space and movement. between two and three dimensions to create a series develop their own expressive vocabulary to reveal a During the course, you will be encouraged to think of related and resolved artworks. The emphasis will be sense of place, mood and characteristics of urban about the natural world as a dynamic global cycle. on individuality and innovation to create a distinctive environments using a range of compositional devices The mixed media approach employed will enable you body of mixed works. and techniques. to create subtle changes in methodology towards work that conveys variations of focus and a deeper engagement with naturally occurring phenomena. You will consider concepts of space, arrangement, perspective, repetition, flatness and light in composing the work produced. Demonstrations on materials and techniques will inform students of ways to be innovative in their approach to making art that is insightful and expresses an individual viewpoint. September 2015 – June 2016 | Drawing and Painting | Art | Short Courses 15
Painting: Portraiture Life Drawing with Anatomy Drawing: Language and Expression 2
Christine Frew BA (Hons) {ILA} Paul A Mowat HND BA (Hons) {ILA} Oliver D Reed BA MA PGCHE {ILA} Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Thursdays from 14 April 9.45am – 12.30pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee
Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 2 10 Edinburgh 12 10 £220/ 2 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £200/ College of Art, £165 Land, Holyrood £150 2 10 Edinburgh 12 10 £220/ Lauriston Pl conc Campus conc College of Art, £165 Lauriston Pl conc Prerequisites: Some experience of figure drawing Prerequisites: Some previous drawing experience required. required. 3 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £220/ Land, Holyrood £165 This course enables you to explore the human form This course is intended for those who wish to build Campus conc as an art practice, in relation to the study of human on their personal drawing language and expression, Prerequisites: Some previous drawing and painting anatomy. You will have access to the life model as well gathering research material based on a specific theme, experience desirable. as the University’s historic collections of skeletons, subject or idea. Carrying out work in your own time, This course enables you to develop a personal anatomical casts and photographic slides and and through discussions with the tutor, you will have approach to all aspects of portraiture through drawing diagrams used over the last century to teach anatomy. the time to develop a sustained and focused body of and painting techniques. Working directly from models, You will focus on the structure, form and movement of work creating drawings that enable engagement in a you will use a range of approaches to expand skills the human body using on-site work at Surgeons’ Hall dialogue with the work, questioning what drawing can and techniques to produce dynamic and arresting to enhance the teaching and learning experience. be, challenging your thoughts and approaches, and portraits and head studies. A range of materials will pushing individual boundaries of expression. be used, incorporating drawing, oil based and water based media. You will consider the historical and contemporary context of the portrait in visual culture. 16 Short Courses | Art | Drawing and Painting | September 2015 – June 2016
Images and Ideas Developing Life Drawing Large Scale Painting
Robbie Bushe PG Dip {ILA} Graham Flack MFA BA (Hons) {ILA} Oliver D Reed BA MA PGCHE {ILA} Wednesdays from 13 January 9.45am – 12.30pm Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm
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2 10 Thomson’s 12 10 £220/ 2 10 Edinburgh 12 10 £220/ 2 10 Thomson’s 8 10 £220/ Land, Holyrood £165 College of Art, £165 Land, Holyrood £165 Campus conc Lauriston Pl conc Campus conc Prerequisites: Some previous drawing experience Prerequisites: Some previous drawing experience Prerequisites: Some drawing and painting experience required. desirable. desirable. This course will enable you to develop your own This course is designed to develop and extend your In this course, you will extend your skills and visual personal subjects or related themes by exploring skills and approaches in drawing directly from the vocabulary to make a series of ambitious large scale compositional possibilities and visual ideas for life model. Each week, you will be given a range paintings which explore a more personal use of drawing, painting, print, illustration or design of strategies to develop an understanding of the images and illusion using a range of traditional as outcomes. You will undertake a range of focused structure and proportion of the human form, while also well as experimental techniques. Visual ideas will be drawing, painting and mixed media techniques to developing and considering the mood and character stimulated through a range of ‘point of reference’ consider how they can inform and shape the content of the pose related to the uses of a range of materials observations as well as exploiting your own particular and mood of finished works. and techniques. visual ideas and circumstances as subject matter. This can include working from still life, the figure, interiors, cityscapes and pictorial narratives. You will learn how to research to explore compositional and pictorial devices, uses of tone and colour and the application of paint and mixed media to create a coherent range of related large scale paintings. September 2015 – June 2016 | Drawing and Painting | Art | Short Courses 17
Painting: Figure Composition Understanding Contemporary Art Developing Drawing Practice Olivia C Irvine BA Dip PGS MA {ILA} Paul A Mowat HND BA (Hons) {ILA} Ronald J Binnie MFA BA HND {ILA} Thursdays from 14 January 9.45am – 12.30pm Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Thursdays from 14 January 1.30pm – 4.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 2 10 Thomson’s 12 10 £210/ 2 10 Edinburgh 12 10 £210/ Land, Holyrood £157 2 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £220/ College of Art, £157 Campus conc Land, Holyrood £165 Lauriston Pl conc Campus conc Prerequisites: Some experience or a previous painting Prerequisites: No previous experience required. Some course is desirable. Prerequisites: Some previous art practice drawing experience desirable. recommended. Many of art history’s great ‘monuments’ are paintings This course is designed to develop and extend a range which depict figures and environments communicating The classification of contemporary art as a particular of observational drawing techniques for students a human narrative; religious depictions, political and form of art, as opposed to a general descriptive phrase with basic drawing experience. You will explore the social commentaries or more intimate and personal goes back to the beginnings of Modernism. What relationship with line, tone and mark-marking aligned visualisations of human experience. In this course defines contemporary art practice is inherently always to compositional awareness as well as the uses and you will design and make figurative pictures which on the move, anchored in the present with a start date impact of colour. The initial class session will introduce tell stories, reveal situations and transform moods, that moves forward, influenced by a plethora of trends a range of new techniques and ways of looking at exploring both traditional and experimental pictorial and short-term movements. This course will combine architectural interiors, the still life, the human figure space. Working from both the model, your own an academic approach to understanding recent art and developing your own visual ideas. As well as research, drawings and collected photographs, you movements such as Modernism, Postmodernism developing a range of essential drawing approaches will develop a range of figure compositions leading and their influence on contemporary art practice, and techniques, you will explore effective uses of towards final works in painting, mixed media, drawing with an exploration and development of personal sketchbooks to research, record and prepare visual or collage. ideas through practical means. It will look at different ideas which derive from observational drawing as approaches to contemporary art practice and a starting point to create a series of more resolved encourage students to develop their own ideas and personal works. methodologies in this context. 18 Short Courses | Art | Drawing and Painting | September 2015 – June 2016
Expression and Abstraction Painting Edinburgh Large Scale Drawing
Olivia C Irvine BA Dip PGS MA {ILA} Paul A Mowat HND BA (Hons) {ILA} Oliver D Reed BA MA PGCHE Fridays from 15 January 9.45am – 12.30pm Mondays from 11 April 9.45am – 12.30pm Wednesdays from 13 April 9.30am – 12.30pm
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2 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £200/ 3 10 Thomson’s 12 10 £200/ 3 5 Thomson’s 10 0 £110/ Land, Holyrood £150 Land, Holyrood £150 Land, Holyrood £83 Campus conc Campus conc Campus conc Prerequisites: Some previous experience of drawing Prerequisites: No previous experience required. Prerequisites: No previous experience required. Some and painting desirable. previous drawing experience desirable. This course enables students to make a series of This course enables you to develop your own studies working on location in and around Edinburgh. This course will enable you to broaden your expressive language, exploring greater expressive These will be developed in the studio through approaches to drawing on a large scale; exploring abstract approaches to drawing and painting. Through investigations into the work of artists who reference the physicality and challenges that working on a group and individual tuition, you will initially research the urban landscape such as Carol Rhodes, Jock larger scale has to offer and allowing you to employ and develop your own starting points. The course McFadyen, Joan Eardley and Peter Doig. Students non-traditional drawing tools and materials to create will consider a variety of taught and self-directed will become familiar with the techniques, creative expressive images. techniques to reveal and sustain abstract concerns processes and visual forms particular to the artists and derived from your own source material and research, make a series of explorative studies and paintings. underpinned by an understanding of composition and Students will develop their own personal responses structure. informed by contextual sources demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding. September 2015 – June 2016 | Drawing and Painting | Art | Short Courses 19
Painting on Location Art and Environment Working with Nature
Olivia C Irvine BA Dip PGS MA Ronald J Binnie MFA BA HND {ILA} Oliver D Reed BA MA PGCHE Thursdays from 14 April 1.30pm – 4.15pm Thursdays from 14 April 1.30pm – 4.15pm Wednesdays from 18 May 9.30am – 12.30pm
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3 10 Thomson’s 10 0 £200/ 3 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £220/ 3 5 Thomson’s 10 0 £110/ Land, Holyrood £150 Land, Holyrood £165 Land, Holyrood £83 Campus conc Campus conc Campus conc Prerequisites: No previous experience required. Some Prerequisites: Some previous art practice Prerequisites: Some previous painting experience previous painting experience desirable. recommended. desirable. This course enables you to make a series of ‘plein So called Environmental Art stems from an This course will enable students to explore personal air’ studies and paintings working from panoramic engagement with the landscape through painting and ideas for a range of art practices through visiting and locations in and around Edinburgh and further encompasses the scope of the urban landscape. This working from the landscape. This course is aimed at developed in the studio. You will learn a range of course will enable you to consider, through a range of students who wish to explore their own ideas; bringing approaches to preparing grounds and painting art practices, how the development of environmental together an appreciation of both landscape and surfaces, to plan and consider how they will record issues in art have stimulated artists to engage with a visual art to make art in response to nature and the vast spaces within specific timeframes, and how to wider audience. Through project work you will explore land. There will be dialogue and discussion about art, respond to the impact of the ever-changing elements. key areas such as human/animal relations, climate natural forms and the environment. Through drawing and painting, with acrylics and/or oil change and ecology, the city and its globalisation paints students will learn how to layer paint quickly to and the imagery of nature. Using research and studio discover the light, mood and compositional framework practices of drawing, painting, mixed media and of a particular viewpoint. photography, you will engage with these issues as a starting point before developing your own position and ideas into a range of related artworks. 20 Short Courses | Art | Photography and Video | September 2015 – June 2016
Photography and Video Video for Artists Introduction to Digital Photography Demelza Kooij MA BA {ILA} Jack Luke BA {ILA} Beginners Darkroom Photography Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm Tuesdays from 29 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm
Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm
Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 1 10 Edinburgh 8 10 £220/ 1 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £220/ College of Art, £165 College of Art, £165 1 10 Edinburgh 8 0 £220/ Lauriston Pl conc Lauriston Pl conc College of Art, £165 2 10 Edinburgh 8 10 £220/ 2 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £220/ Lauriston Pl conc College of Art, £165 College of Art, £165 2 10 Edinburgh 8 0 £220/ Lauriston Pl conc Lauriston Pl conc College of Art, £165 Prerequisites: No previous digital video experience Prerequisites: No previous experience required. You Lauriston Pl conc necessary. Some experience in any art discipline will will require your own SLR digital camera with manual Prerequisites: No previous photography experience be useful. You will require your own means of shooting settings. required. You will require your own SLR 35mm film basic digital video, such as a smart phone, digital SLR The course will explore the digital camera’s creative camera. camera or digital video camera. controls, as well as digital image enhancements, This course will introduce you to the basics of black This course introduces you to the moving image to adjustments and processing for photography. You will and white photography as an art and design practice develop creative ideas with video. The focus will be on be introduced to the elements of a photographic visual to develop the beginnings of a personal language. the fundamentals of moving image and time-based language and how concepts, ideas and mood, can be Using a 35mm analogue camera, the course will focus media, together with digital video editing. The course communicated through photography. The course will on exploiting the camera’s manual settings to take a covers developing concepts using storyboarding, include both a range of creative photography project range of different types of pictures and will introduce capturing and importing video, creating a rough-cut work and computer-based work using Photoshop basic technical processes in the dark room to develop edit, fine-tuning the edit, working with effects and software. After introductory photography assignments, and print a range of photographic outcomes. You will transitions, working with sound, and exporting a short you will research, photograph, print, edit and present also be encouraged to consider an aesthetic approach video piece for DVD. You will also have the opportunity a personal, digitally-based photography project which to subject, lighting, composition and mood. to view and discuss a range of contemporary artists’ considers the work of contemporary photographers, video and short films. artists and designers. September 2015 – June 2016 | Photography and Video | Art | Short Courses 21
Advanced Darkroom Photography Digital Photography Project
Jack Luke BA {ILA} Jack Luke BA {ILA} Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 9.15pm Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm
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1 10 Edinburgh 8 10 £230/ 1 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £220/ College of Art, £172 College of Art, £165 Lauriston Pl conc Lauriston Pl conc 2 10 Edinburgh 8 10 £230/ 2 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £220/ College of Art, £172 College of Art, £165 Lauriston Pl conc Lauriston Pl conc Prerequisites: Some previous experience of analogue Prerequisites: Some creative and technical experience photography recommended. You will require your own of digital or analogue photography required. You will SLR 35mm film camera. require your own SLR digital camera with manual This course aims to consolidate existing skills in settings. darkroom photography to enable you to make a This course is designed to develop your knowledge coherent body of photographic works which consider and skills in digital photography, and engender audience, genre and professional contexts. The practice-led visual research for an ambitious personal course content will be driven by your own interests and project. You will extend your awareness of digital subjects, to broaden your practical understanding and camera creative controls, digital image enhancements, skills in photography as an art medium. adjustments and processing. Through an individual Send us your Short Course stories so project, you will explore how your own concepts and we can celebrate you and your work. ideas can be communicated through photography by developing personal themes, subject matter and Email: [email protected] mood. This could include a short themed photographic series for exhibition, a themed photobook project or a professional photography portfolio. To see an overview of our Short Courses programme please go to page 92 22 Short Courses | Art | Portfolio Preparation | September 2015 – June 2016
These two distinct courses will provide practical support Portfolio Preparation if you are considering applying for degree courses in an Printmaking and Paper ‘Art’ or ‘Design’ subject.
Portfolio Preparation: Art Portfolio Preparation: Design Introduction to Printmaking
Catharine Davison MFA Saturdays from 3 October 9.45am – 12.30pm Gregor McAlpine MFA Saturdays from 3 October 9.45am – 12.30pm Saturdays from 16 January 9.45am – 12.30pm Tuesdays from 29 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm
Saturdays from 16 January 9.45am – 12.30pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee
Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 1 10 Thomson’s 10 0 £190/ 1 10 Edinburgh 8 0 £220/ Land, Holyrood £142 College of Art, £165 1 10 Thomson’s 10 0 £190/ Campus conc Lauriston Pl conc Land, Holyrood £142 Campus conc 2 10 Thomson’s 10 0 £190/ Prerequisites: No previous printmaking experience Land, Holyrood £142 required. 2 10 Thomson’s 10 0 £190/ Campus conc Land, Holyrood £142 This introduction to printmaking enables you to Campus conc Prerequisites: Suitable for students with some design experiment with colour, texture and composition experience who are interested in applying for degree Prerequisites: Suitable for students with some art through a range of relief and intaglio techniques such study in design. experience who are interested in applying for degree as woodcut and collagraphy. You will be encouraged study in art. Each week, you will undertake a practical project to generate and develop visual ideas suitable for print which will engender drawing and research to expand Each week, you will undertake a practical project through your own visual research and sketchbook and develop personal ideas and explore a range of which will engender drawing and research to expand drawings, as well as looking at a range of artists and techniques and skills, which you will be required to and develop personal ideas and explore a range of illustrators who have used printmaking as a means of follow up in your own time. The course will look at techniques and skills, which you will be required to expression. follow up in your own time. The course will look at ways to integrate art or design practices, research and ways to integrate art or design practices, research and contextual awareness using a sketchbook and through contextual awareness using a sketchbook and through a series of development works suitable for presentation a series of development works suitable for presentation for the online ‘mini-portfolio’ as well as preparation of for the online ‘mini-portfolio’ as well as preparation of a portfolio to take to interview. Advice will be given on a portfolio to take to interview. Advice will be given on strategies for recording and evidencing work digitally strategies for recording and evidencing work digitally to reveal strengths and main interests. Emphasis will to reveal strengths and main interests. Emphasis will be placed on ways to select, edit and present the work be placed on ways to select, edit and present the work suitable for a portfolio presentation. suitable for a portfolio presentation. September 2015 – June 2016 | Printmaking and Paper | Art | Short Courses 23
Introduction to Artists’ Books Contemporary Printmaking: Developing Printmaking Techniques Traditional Techniques Susie Wilson BA PG Dip {ILA} Gregor McAlpine MFA {ILA} Gregor McAlpine MFA {ILA} Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 9.15pm Tuesdays from 12 April 6.30pm – 9.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 2 10 Edinburgh 8 10 £230/ 1 10 Edinburgh 8 10 £230/ College of Art, £172 1 10 Edinburgh 8 10 £230/ College of Art, £172 Lauriston Pl conc College of Art, £172 Lauriston Pl conc Lauriston Pl conc Prerequisites: Some previous art or design experience Prerequisites: Some printmaking skills desirable. 3 10 Thomson’s 8 10 £230/ desirable. Land, Holyrood £172 This course will consider how traditional print This course enables you to experiment with colour, Campus conc techniques inform contemporary practices in an age texture and composition through a range of relief and Prerequisites: No previous experience required. of digital reproduction. You will explore traditional intaglio techniques. As well as developing techniques This course will introduce you to the diverse ways methods of printmaking by both using a press and in relief printing, woodcut and collagraphy, you will artists use the book as a form by considering work by hand to produce printed works. Techniques be introduced to more complex etching techniques from William Blake and Matisse through to Ed Ruscha include monotype printing, relief wood block and developing tone through the use of acrylic grounds and on to more contemporary artists such as Tom lino block and intaglio etching techniques. Line, and photographic methods. Students will be Philips and Damien Hirst. Learning through practical tone, monochrome and colour, collage, multiple encouraged to develop visual ideas suitable for print demonstrations, you will make books using a range block printing, text with image, scale, printing from through their own visual research and sketchbook of binding techniques; explore the qualities of paper found surfaces, installation and modes of display drawings in addition to looking at a range of artists and and other materials then progress to a more resolved will be addressed. You will be encouraged to illustrators who have used printmaking as a means of personal project. You may construct blank books or conduct research into contemporary practices and expression. incorporate photographs, drawings, paintings made practitioners, extending your own visual printmaking previously or use a selection of found materials. You vocabulary from sketchbooks and through the use of will learn a range of basic binding techniques such other media. as pamphlet sewing, Japanese binding, hardbound books and concertina folds to make sample books. The course will enable you to make at least one finished piece to demonstrate your individual choices and visual aesthetic. 24 Short Courses | Art | Printmaking and Paper | September 2015 – June 2016
Developing Artists’ Books Intaglio Printmaking: Contemporary Approaches Sculpture Susie Wilson BA PG Dip {ILA} Gregor McAlpine MFA {ILA} Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Wood Sculpture Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Arran Ross BA MA {ILA} Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 2 10 Edinburgh 8 10 £230/ Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 9.15pm College of Art, £172 2 10 Edinburgh 8 10 £230/ Lauriston Pl conc College of Art, £172 Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Lauriston Pl conc Prerequisites: ‘Introduction to Artists’ Books’ or some Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee relevant experience of art and design practice. Prerequisites: Some previous printmaking skills desirable. Some art and design drawing skills essential. 1 10 Edinburgh 8 10 £230/ This course will enable you to focus on developing College of Art, £172 sustained and personal visual content and ideas This course will challenge some of the ways of Lauriston Pl conc within the wider context of the book form. Printmaking approaching intaglio techniques to develop a series 2 10 Edinburgh 8 10 £230/ and mixed media techniques will be used as a way of of ambitious and related images for print. Using and College of Art, £172 Lauriston Pl conc generating ideas to develop into artists’ books. The combining a range of multiple plate colour etching, use of diverse materials and scale will be looked at photo etching, chine collé and aquatint, you will Prerequisites: No previous experience of working with in the work of artists such as Anselm Kiefer and Kiki develop your own coherent themes and imagery. In wood required. Some previous drawing experience desirable. Smith and also where the discipline of the artist book addition, you will explore the possibilities of this historic lies in contemporary art practice. technique and also examine how your work addresses This course will develop basic wood carving skills and more contemporary printmaking concerns. Students some elements of construction and assemblage. You will engage with the creative potential of contemporary will learn various techniques of carving with both basic intaglio techniques such as photoetching and re- hand tools and power tools. The course will consider examine traditional methods. You will be encouraged both traditional and contemporary wood sculpture to experiment and develop a personal response to practice; simple cutting and joining techniques, the medium, exploiting the creative and innovative treatment of wood surfaces, interior and exterior possibilities this technique has to offer. installation, wood colouring, relief and 3D carving techniques and the use and inclusion of found objects and materials, such as metal, plastics, driftwood etc. The emphasis will be on giving students a chance to develop in a direction which is suitable for their own abilities and aspirations. September 2015 – June 2016 | Sculpture | Art | Short Courses 25
Contemporary Sculpture
Hans Clausen BA {ILA} Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm
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2 10 Edinburgh 8 10 £240/ Sculpture £180 Workshop conc Prerequisites: No previous experience of working with sculpture required. Some previous drawing experience desirable. Introducing the core concepts of 3D fine art, this course aims to develop an understanding of contemporary sculptural practices. Referencing sculptural techniques from the 1960’s to the present day, you will investigate the use of materials and This is a pilot University of Edinburgh course and we and areas for exhibition. Indoor and outdoor spaces examine ideas of form and space. You will be are delighted to be offering it in partnership with the support a range of different sculptural activities and encouraged to explore relationships between a wide Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (ESW) in Newhaven. provide viewing areas to enable visitors to see work range of found, recycled or other materials to conceive, Students will have access to the workshop for four half in progress. create and present a range of sculptural forms. days during the course and will be able to store their Please note that enrolments for this course are through work in progress and use the car park. the University of Edinburgh and not through the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s new facility has been Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. designed by Sutherland Hussey Architects. Developed The ESW offer a range of their own short courses and in two stages (the Bill Scott Sculpture Centre and workshops. For full details of these please visit: the Creative Laboratories) the finished complex is an www.edinburghsculpture.org architecturally inspiring space, purpose-built to provide the best working environment for artists. Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Bill Scott Sculpture Centre The buildings house a studio community, specialist 21 Hawthornvale, Newhaven workshops, artist residency and production spaces Edinburgh, EH6 4JT 26 Short Courses | Art History | September 2015 – June 2016
‘Drawing-Room Gods’: Classical Tradition and How Art Works (Credit Plus) ART HISTORY Historical Genre Painting in Victorian Britain Dane Sutherland MA MFA {ILA} Course Organiser: Sally Crumplin BA PhD Miruna Cuzman BA MA Mondays from 28 September 5.30pm – 8.20pm
[email protected] Mondays from 28 September 11.10am – 1.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £165/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £110 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc How does art work? Looking at major periods and An examination through painting of the Victorian styles, the course will introduce the basic tools of Art revival of the Classical tradition. This richly illustrated History such as visual, comparative and cultural analysis, course will explore the development and context of the furthering your understanding of the various descriptions trend for reconstructing Ancient Greece, Rome and used and how their meanings change over time through (occasionally) Egypt in Victorian art. case studies of works of art from the western canon.
Twenty Artists of the Twentieth Century Anglo-Saxon Illuminated Manuscripts
Andrew Paterson MSc BFA {ILA} Haridina Fraser BA MSc PhD Mondays from 28 September 11.10am – 1.00pm Tuesdays from 29 September 11.10am – 1.00pm
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1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc
Explore the complexities of 20th century art through This introductory course examines the iconography studying the aims and methods of key individual and the historical background of Anglo-Saxon artists. This course takes a pair of artists each illuminated manuscripts. Taking examples such as the week - Picasso and Braque, Pollock and Rothko, Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of Kells, as well as Duchamp and Bourgeois, amongst others - to assess lesser-known manuscripts, the course traces the visual their motivations and creative processes, and their and textual sources, the stylistic influences, and the contributions to modern art. role of patronage in manuscript production. September 2015 – June 2016 | Art History | Short Courses 27
Discovering French Painting at the Pre-Raphaelites Reviewed Masterpieces of Modern Art National Galleries of Scotland I Katja Robinson BA MA Bill Hare MA Guillaume Evrard MA PGDip PhD Tuesdays from 29 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 30 September 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Tuesdays from 29 September 1.00pm – 2.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £53/ 1 10 National Gallery 0 £53/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £35 conc of Scotland, £35 conc The Mound Explore the allure of this fascinating group of artists Combining classroom lectures with gallery visits, and their art. Investigate why they have permeated this course will examine in detail some of the finest Discover first-hand a wide range of French visual arts our culture today to such a remarkable degree in examples of Modern Art in this country. All the great by key artists from Clouet to Cézanne. Expand your the realms of painting, literature and design. Lively Modern Masters will be included as the course moves visual skills and knowledge by looking at French visual sessions will combine images with music, poetry and from Modern Realism and Impressionism through arts from the distant Middle Ages to the end of the short film extracts. Post-Impressionism and Cubism to Dada/Surrealism 1800s. All welcome. and Abstraction.
Arts and Architecture in Europe I: From Ancient Greece to the Middle Ages The Art of 15th Century Italy World Textiles Guillaume Evrard MA PGDip PhD {ILA} Lesley Fraser MA MSc {ILA} Joanne Soroka BA DipAD PGDip Tuesdays from 29 September 6.30pm – 8.30pm Wednesdays from 30 September 11.10am – 1.00pm Wednesdays from 30 September 2.10pm – 4.00pm
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1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc
Acquire a good grasp of the skills and knowledge This course explores the development of art in Italy in An overview of textiles from pre-history to the present used in history of art with this stimulating introductory a period that laid the foundations for the Renaissance. day, covering both art and craft aspects and focussing course. We will examine a variety of works in painting, Using a wide variety of material this course will assess on centres of excellence around the world. The course sculpture, and architecture from the classical period of the influences of 15th century Italian art, and will place will look at the aesthetic merits of the textiles and Ancient Greece to the High Gothic period in western it in the context of contemporary developments in their meanings, as well as considering the production Europe which are crucial to understanding the history literature, philosophy and science. of European arts and architecture. techniques. 28 Short Courses | Art History | September 2015 – June 2016
Discovering the National Collections 1 1 DAY COURSE Victorian Photography Cross-Currents: French and British Painting 1860 –1914 Kate Sloan BA MSc PhD Roddy Simpson MA MPhil FSA Scot Katja Robinson BA MA Thursdays from 1 October 1.00pm – 2.00pm Saturday 24 October 10.30am – 4.30pm or 5.30pm – 6.30pm Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Class Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 1 1 National Museum 0 £33/ 1 10 National Gallery 0 £53/ of Scotland, £22 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ of Scotland, £35 conc Chambers St conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc The Mound From its invention in 1839, photography had a huge This course examines the exchange of artistic and Gather at the National Gallery of Scotland, on the impact on Victorian society. This course will explore literary ideas across the English Channel between Mound, to discover first-hand the magnificent holdings the art, science, products and popularity associated 1860 –1914. Looking both at French artists in Britain of European paintings in our national collections. This with photography in the Victorian era. The course runs and British and American painters in France, prominent course will enable you to extend your visual skills and in conjunction with the major exhibition at National figures of the period will include Baudelaire, Manet, knowledge in considering art from the Renaissance to Museum of Scotland, and includes an exhibition visit. Monet as well as Whistler, Sargent, Sickert, Beardsley, the early Baroque period in the company of an expert. Please meet at the Information Desk in the entrance hall Wilde, Fry and Fergusson. Please meet at the Information Desk in the entrance hall to the National Museum of Scotland. to the National Gallery of Scotland. Arts and Architecture in Europe II: The Renaissance to the Reformation The Art of Rembrandt and Vermeer Guillaume Evrard MA PGDip PhD {ILA} Andrew Paterson MSc BFA {ILA} Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm
Mondays from 11 January 11.10am – 1.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Acquire a good grasp of the skills and knowledge This course explores in detail the work of the two most used in history of art with this stimulating introductory famous artists of 17th century Holland, studying their course. We will examine a variety of works in creative processes as well as the cultural, religious and painting, sculpture, and architecture in northern and political context of the period. A visit to the National southern central Europe from the Renaissance to the Gallery of Scotland will be included. Reformation. September 2015 – June 2016 | Art History | Short Courses 29
Scottish Art in the Age of Change Masters of the High Renaissance: Early 20th Century Avant-garde in Cinema 1945 – 2000 Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael and Other Visual Arts Bill Hare MA Lesley Fraser MA MSc {ILA} Gosia Bugaj MA MSc PhD {ILA} Wednesdays from 13 January 11.10am – 1.00pm Thursdays from 14 January 11.10am – 1.00pm Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm
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2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc An introduction to the major avant-garde movements This course introduces students to the history of These three men were amongst the most inspired of the 1920s: Impressionism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Scottish Modern and Contemporary Art since 1945. creators in the history of art exerting a powerful force Futurism, Constructivism, and Expressionism. This It will survey and analyse the outstanding on the Italian High Renaissance and on subsequent illustrated course examines their presence in cinema achievements of this remarkable era through the work western art in general. This course will examine each and other arts, in particular painting, sculpture, of Paolozzi, Davie, Eardley, Bellany, Boyle Family, artist’s career in detail, placing it within the cultural and architecture, and photography. Finlay, Campbell, Watt, Borland, Gordon and the political context of the time. recent “Generation” artists.
A History of Modern Fashion Discovering the National Collections 2 Joanne Soroka BA DipAD PGDip Kate Sloan BA MSc PhD Wednesdays from 13 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm Thursdays from 14 January 1.00pm – 2.00pm or 5.30pm – 6.30pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 2 10 National Gallery 0 £53/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc of Scotland, £35 conc This course investigates both the theory and practice The Mound of fashion from the French Revolution to the present. Discover first-hand the magnificent holdings of 16th to We cover topics such as the birth and death of the 19th century paintings in our national collections. This To see an overview of our fashion designer, how fashion communicates and course will enable you to extend your visual skills and attempts at ‘timeless’ fashion. knowledge in considering European art from the Baroque Short Courses programme to Romantic periods in the company of an expert. please go to page 92 Please meet at the Information Desk in the entrance hall to the National Gallery of Scotland. 30 Short Courses | Art History | September 2015 – June 2016
Colour, Pattern and Texture at the National Discovering the National Collections: 1 DAY COURSE Bring Your Own Archive Museum of Scotland Jewellery from Antiquity to Present Day Lydia Beilby MA Karen A Clulow BA MA FSA Scot Karen A Clulow BA MA FSA Scot Friday 26 February 10.00am – 4.00pm Fridays from 15 January 10.30am – 12.30pm Fridays from 15 January 1.15pm – 2.15pm Session Class Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 2 1 Paterson’s Land, 0 £33/ 2 10 National Museum 0 £105/ 2 10 National Museum 0 £53/ Holyrood Campus £22 of Scotland, £70 conc of Scotland, £35 conc conc Chambers St Chambers St Come and contribute to Screen Bandita’s mobile An exploration of colour, pattern and texture, and This course will use the collections of the National archive. Bring along any reels of film (8mm or 16mm), their historical and cultural development, within the Museum of Scotland to introduce you to the slides or photographs of your own, and explore the collections in the National Museum of Scotland. extraordinarily diverse world of jewellery. From Bandita visual archive. Through discussion of the Designed to accompany the refurbished Art & Design antiquity to present day we will explore our fascination materials, participants will develop a collective and galleries, the course will include exclusive previews with adornment to discover how trade, culture and interrelated memory, and will learn practical skills of museum holdings. Students will learn simple craftsmanship pushed the boundaries of jewellery regarding the use and preservation of film media. techniques to create their own designs incorporating making around the world. colour, pattern and texture. This course takes place at the National Museum of This course takes place at the National Museum of Scotland. Please meet at the Information Desk in the Arts and Architecture in Europe III: Scotland. Please meet at the Information Desk in the entrance hall. The Early Modern to the Contemporary entrance hall. Guillaume Evrard MA PGDip PhD {ILA} Tuesdays from 12 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm
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3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc
Acquire a good grasp of the skills and knowledge used in history of art with this stimulating introductory course. We will examine a variety of works in painting, sculpture, architecture and beyond, created in this crucial period for the history of European arts and architecture. September 2015 – June 2016 | Art History | Short Courses 31
Victorian Painting: A Panorama Japanese Art, Design and Visual Culture Discovering the National Collections 3 Katja Robinson BA MA Joanne Soroka BA DipAD PGDip Kate Sloan BA MSc PhD Tuesdays from 12 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 13 April 2.10pm – 4.00pm Thursdays from 14 April 1.00pm – 2.00pm or 5.30pm – 6.30pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 3 10 National Gallery 0 £53/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc of Scotland, £35 conc The Mound A wide-ranging exploration of Victorian painting: its key This course is an introduction to Japan’s visual culture, figures and styles, major themes and controversies, in particular the areas at which it excels. We will explore Discover first-hand the magnificent holdings of European and the diverse preoccupations of the era – social, current art and design, finding out about the highlights paintings in our national collections. This course will moral, spiritual, gender and class-related. The course of the Japanese visual world, and tracing the history of enable you to extend your visual skills and knowledge will set painting alongside poetry, music and film clips the disciplines that underpin current practice. in considering European art from the 18th to late 19th for a panoramic view of Victorian art. centuries in the company of an expert. Please meet at the Information Desk in the entrance hall to the National Gallery of Scotland. A History of Scottish Art The Art of 16th Century Venice Scottish Architecture: Bill Hare MA Lesley Fraser MA MSc {ILA} From Scara Brae to the Present Wednesdays from 13 April 11.10am – 1.00pm Thursdays from 14 April 11.10am – 1.00pm Margaret Stewart BA MLitt {ILA} Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Thursdays from 14 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm
3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ The development of art in Scotland within a 16th century Venice was extraordinarily rich in artistic Holyrood Campus £81 conc broad socio-historical context: Early Christian, the talent. In addition to the illustrious Titian, a constellation A fully illustrated survey of Scottish architecture Reformation, the Union, the Enlightenment, the of artistic geniuses worked in Venice producing covering a broad spectrum of Scottish vernacular and Industrial Revolution, and the Modern world are all paintings of the highest quality. This course will designed historic buildings with terminology and styles discussed within Scotland’s national and international examine in detail the careers of some of these artists explained throughout. All periods and styles from early dimensions. placing them within their cultural and political contexts. medieval to the present day are covered and recent research in the field will be included. 32 Short Courses | Art History | September 2015 – June 2016
Understanding Colour The Civic Statues of Edinburgh: Discovering the National Collections: Karen A Clulow BA MA FSA Scot Heroes, History and the City as Pantheon Sculpture of the World (1685 – 2015) Karen A Clulow BA MA FSA Scot Fridays from 15 April 10.30am – 12.30pm Robin Baillie MA HDip Fine Art {ILA} Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Fridays from 15 April 1.15pm – 2.15pm Fridays from 15 April 11.10am – 1.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 3 10 National Museum 0 £105/ Session Wks Venue Credits Fee of Scotland, £70 conc 3 10 National Museum 0 £53/ Chambers St 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ of Scotland, £35 conc An introduction to the uses of colour using the Holyrood Campus £81 conc Chambers St National Museum of Scotland’s collections. We will Using the collections of the National Museum of A lively investigation into the monumental portrait examine objects from the natural history, scientific and Scotland, discover first-hand how to look at sculpture. statues of Edinburgh, including Scott, Wellington, decorative arts galleries to consider the role of colour Following major periods and styles this course will Guthrie, George IV and Ramsay. Combining site visits in our world. Students will be shown some simple enable you to extend your visual skills along with with classroom discussion, the course will explore techniques to record the colourful images, creating a knowledge of materials and methods of construction the social and political context of these statues, lasting reminder of their studies. which underpin the creative process. their aesthetic form, and how they have developed This course takes place at the National Museum of ideological readings and historical significance. This course takes place at the National Museum of Scotland. Please meet at the Information Desk in the Scotland. Please meet at the Information Desk in the On your first week please meet by Reception, entrance hall. entrance hall. Paterson’s Land. September 2015 – June 2016 | Art History | Short Courses 33
Edinburgh’s Photographers: 1 DAY COURSE Hill and Adamson Roddy Simpson MA MPhil FSA Scot Friday 6 May 10.00am – 5.00pm
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3 1 Paterson’s Land, 0 £39/ Holyrood Campus £26 conc An introduction to the work of the world famous Send us your Short Course stories so Scottish pioneering photographers, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, with particular focus on their we can celebrate you and your work. images of Edinburgh made in the 1840s and how this Email: [email protected] reflected the society of the time. Includes a walking tour of some of their vantage points. Please meet by Reception, Paterson’s Land. These short courses provide a wonderful way “ to get into a new subject or deepen your existing knowledge. 34 Short Courses | Creative Writing | September 2015 – June 2016
CREATIVE WRITING Improve your Fiction Write that Story 1 Gavin Inglis BSc Colin Mortimer BA Course Organiser: Martine Pierquin MA MSc DPSI Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Tuesdays from 29 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm [email protected] Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Tuesdays from 12 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Do you need help to reach the next stage with Holyrood Campus £70 conc your writing? Build on your strengths, tackle your 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ weaknesses and learn new creative techniques in this Holyrood Campus £70 conc intensive tune-up course. Examine your own writing Always wanted to write but can’t get started? Even if ambitions and develop a range of literary skills to fulfil you are a complete beginner this course will stimulate them. you to write, using simple exercises and discussions to reveal techniques of storytelling from construction to creating characters. New students welcome.
Fiction Workshop Short Story Writing Mary Gladstone Dip Speech & Drama Nicky Melville MA MPhil {ILA} Tuesdays from 29 September 11.10am – 1.00pm Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm
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1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc
Write better fiction! Create scintillating characters In our busy, fast moving world, the short story gives To see an overview of our and formidable plots! Hone your style and learn how pause for thought, capturing a definitive or significant Short Courses programme to present your work professionally. In a workshop ‘moment’ in people’s lives. Learn how to use the please go to page 92 setting you will be able to offer samples of your work in brevity of the form, to perfect your prose style, make progress for group and tutor feedback. serious points about the way we live, and to entertain and to surprise the reader. September 2015 – June 2016 | Creative Writing | Short Courses 35
Find Your Voice 1 Poetry in Practice Write a Short Play Raymond Ross MA DipEd PhD {ILA} James C Wilson MA (Hons) Caroline Dunford MA BSc PG Dip. Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 8.20pm Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Fridays from 2 October 2.10pm – 4.00pm Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Wednesdays from 13 April 2.10pm – 4.00pm 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Holyrood Campus £70 conc 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Want to write a play, but don’t know where to start? Holyrood Campus £70 conc This ten week course introduces the basic premises 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ of playwriting and supports participants to write either Holyrood Campus £70 conc a short play or a first act through teaching, lively Bring a sense of humour, self-discipline and a desire 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ discussions and engaging, practical exercises. to write. From ‘hands on’ stimulating and interactive Holyrood Campus £70 conc experiences to all forms of creative writing, the creative Learn how to write poems that people want to read and process is yours! publish. Have your work assessed constructively by a lively group of fellow poets. Our aim: the best words in the best order. Find out about readings, magazines, competitions. Some knowledge of poetry would be an advantage. New Ripping Scripts 1 students very welcome in January and April. Writing Creative Non-Fiction Raymond Ross MA DipEd PhD Margaret Montgomery BA MLitt PG Dip. Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 8.20pm Writing Children’s Fiction Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Janis Mackay MA Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Holyrood Campus £70 conc
Why not make a drama out of a crisis? This interactive 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ The course aims to give students a good knowledge of Holyrood Campus £70 conc drama-writing class explores the process from page the writing techniques specific to the genre of creative to stage. A chance to monologue, dialogue, scene-set Tired of chasing Gruffalos? Had it with being a vapid non-fiction and the ability to incorporate these into their and develop your all-round script-ability. muggle? Conjure up your own style, spice up your own writing. In particular, it aims to give participants the prose, put dash to your dreams and write children’s opportunity to write an extended piece of commercially fiction. Experiment with genres and age groups. viable creative non-fiction. Create stories, picture books and chapters. 36 Short Courses | Creative Writing | September 2015 – June 2016
Write that Story 2 Find Your Voice 2 Ripping Scripts 2 Colin Mortimer BA Raymond Ross MA DipEd PhD {ILA} Raymond Ross MA DipEd PhD Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm
Tuesdays from 12 April 2.10pm – 4.00pm Fridays from 15 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc Continuation of course 1 but new students very 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ welcome. Why not make a drama out of a crisis? This Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc interactive drama-writing class explores the process Always wanted to write but can’t get started? Even if Continuation of course 1 but new students very from page to stage. A chance to monologue, dialogue, you are a complete beginner this course will stimulate welcome. Bring a sense of humour, self-discipline scene-set and develop your all-round script-ability. you to write, using simple exercises and discussions and a desire to write. From ‘hands on’ stimulating and to reveal techniques of storytelling from construction to interactive experiences to all forms of creative writing, creating characters. New students welcome. the creative process is yours!
Experimental Writing Starting to Write 1 Shut Up & Write! Nicky Melville MA MPhil {ILA} Helen Lamb MA {ILA} Mondays from 11 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc We will explore common problems that writers Kundera often asked how the novel would have This is a course for beginners or those wishing to experience, such as fear, lack of inspiration, developed had Sterne’s Tristram Shandy had more refresh the basics of writing poetry and short stories. perfectionism and the inner critic. This course covers of an influence, instead of realism becoming the The writing exercises are designed to stimulate and practical methods for dealing with these issues dominant style. This course introduces eminent encourage original and lively work. Learn how to revise and ways to stimulate inspiration. It is ideal for both innovative writers and the opportunity to try out a first draft and how to give and take critical feedback beginners and non-beginners who wish to refresh their approaches such as Surrealist techniques and other in a positive, constructive way. approach. experimental fiction devices. September 2015 – June 2016 | Creative Writing | Short Courses 37
Writing Young Adult Fiction Starting to Write 2 Ripping Scripts 3 Caroline Dunford MA BSc PG Dip Helen Lamb MA {ILA} Raymond Ross MA DipEd PhD Mondays from 11 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 14 April 2.10pm – 4.00pm Thursdays from 14 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm
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3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc
Young Adult Fiction is a trending market, enjoying Continuation of course 1 but new students very Continuation of course 2 but new students very explosive growth and new heights of recognition. welcome. This is a course for beginners or those welcome. Why not make a drama out of a crisis? This It is an important category that introduces fresh wishing to refresh the basics of writing poetry and interactive drama-writing class explores the process concepts to burgeoning minds, tackling difficult and short stories. The writing exercises are designed to from page to stage. A chance to monologue, dialogue, often controversial subjects. This course will enable stimulate and encourage original and lively work. Learn scene-set and develop your all-round script-ability. participants to gain an understanding of the genre and how to rework a first draft and how to give and take develop their own writing. critical feedback in a positive, constructive way.
Get Ready to Write Your First Novel Innovative Fiction Find Your Voice 3 Mary Gladstone Dip Speech & Drama {ILA} Helen Lamb MA {ILA} Raymond Ross MA DipEd PhD {ILA} Tuesdays from 12 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 14 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Fridays from 15 April 2.10pm – 4.00pm
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3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc
Got an idea for writing a novel? Well, here’s your An adventurous course which will encourage you to Continuation of course 2 but new students very chance! This course will help you embark on such an experiment with form, language and genre and extend welcome. Bring a sense of humour, self-discipline adventure with advice in character development, plot the possibilities of your fiction. The course is intended and a desire to write. From ‘hands on’ stimulating and structure and synopsis. In a workshop setting with to stretch the imaginative boundaries. It will also interactive experiences to all forms of creative writing, individual feedback provided, you will learn crucial examine how far you can go with innovation and still the creative process is yours! aspects in the art of creating fiction. keep the reader engaged. 38 Short Courses | Design | Jewellery and Glass | September 2015 – June 2016
DESIGN Jewellery and Glass Jewellery and Silversmithing: Foundation Jenny Deans BA {ILA} Course Organiser: Robbie Bushe PG Dip Jewellery and Silversmithing: Etching Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm [email protected] Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Stacey Bentley MA BA BTEC {ILA}
Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm 1 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £230/ College of Art, £172 Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Lauriston Pl conc
1 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £230/ Prerequisites: No previous experience of jewellery and College of Art, £172 silversmithing required. Lauriston Pl conc In this foundation course, you will be taught the Prerequisites: Basic jewellery and silversmithing skills basic jewellery making techniques of saw-piercing, are required. Soldering and saw piercing experience is soldering, texturing, roll-printing and forming. You desirable. will make your own set of simple saw-pierced stud Working with precious and base metals, this course will earrings and a basic ring using these techniques. develop your skills in the use of etching and surface Research and development of design ideas will allow pattern in jewellery and silversmithing. The course will you to confidently design your own unique pieces incorporate the process of research and design, such and develop an individual project during the course. as the relationship between a two dimensional design With tutor guidance, you will use various construction on paper and how it may be realised and developed methods and be introduced to a variety of materials, into a three-dimensional object. Initial projects will such as copper, brass and silver. include various short workshops in etching on sheet metal which leads to developing your own personal project. September 2015 – June 2016 | Jewellery and Glass | Design | Short Courses 39
Jewellery Techniques Introduction to Glass Techniques Jewellery and Silversmithing: Enamelling (Stained Glass) Amy P M Chan BA (Hons) {ILA} Stacey Bentley MA BA BTEC {ILA} Jeffrey M Zimmer MDes BA Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 9.15pm Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 9.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 1 10 Edinburgh 8 10 £230/ 2 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £230/ College of Art, £172 1 10 Edinburgh 8 0 £230/ College of Art, £172 Lauriston Pl conc College of Art, £172 Lauriston Pl conc Lauriston Pl conc Prerequisites: Basic jewellery and silversmithing skills Prerequisites: Basic jewellery and silversmithing skills are required. Prerequisites: No previous experience required. are required. Soldering and saw piercing experience is desirable. This course is suitable for those who wish to expand This course introduces students to the basic skills of their skills and develop jewellery-making techniques working with and designing stained glass panels which Working with precious and base metals, this course such as sawing, forming and soldering. Focus will be will include techniques of cutting, leading, soldering will develop skills in jewellery and silversmithing. placed on an introduction to press forming with sheet and painting on glass with enamels. Attention will The course will incorporate the process of research metal. You will be taught to use riveting and doming be paid to both technical proficiency and to gaining and design, such as the relationship between a two methods to create a pendant or a brooch to utilise awareness and understanding of the use of light in dimensional design on paper and how it may be these skills. Design issues will be explored within your glasswork and the use of glass in architecture. After realised and developed into a three-dimensional individual project, such as the relationship between a an initial series of introductory exercises, students will object. Initial projects will include incorporating two-dimensional design on paper and its realisation as work at their own pace and within tutor-set constraints enamelling leading to developing your own a developed three-dimensional form. to make a series of small sample pieces and one or personal project. more resolved stained-glass works. 40 Short Courses | Design | Jewellery and Glass | September 2015 – June 2016
Jewellery: Wire Jewellery Introduction to Glass Techniques Precious Metals and Sand Casting (Fused and Stained Glass) Jenny Deans BA {ILA} Amy P M Chan BA (Hons) {ILA} Jeffrey M Zimmer MDes BA {ILA} Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 2 10 Edinburgh 8 10 £230/ 2 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £230/ College of Art, £172 2 10 Edinburgh 8 10 £240/ College of Art, £172 Lauriston Pl conc College of Art, £180 Lauriston Pl conc Lauriston Pl conc Prerequisites: Some basic drawing or design Prerequisites: Previous experience of jewellery required. experience is desirable. Prerequisites: Some previous experience of working with stained glass required. This course offers those with experience of jewellery Wire is a great material to use for jewellery making. making at foundation level the opportunity to explore It creates light and flexible pieces and allows much This course builds on previous skills in stained glass the use of precious metals and traditional uses of sand larger and more sculptural results. During this course, design and introduces glass fusing, exploring ways to casting techniques. Focusing on small-scale castings, you will learn how to use basic tools, manipulate integrate fusing into designs. Attention will be paid to you will create unique contemporary jewellery using wire of varying thicknesses, twist wire, make jump both technical proficiency and to building awareness individually hand-made two-part moulds which use rings, chains, catches and ear wires. You will make and understanding of the use of light in glasswork and found objects as the component to be duplicated. The a set of hanging earrings and a bracelet and will potentials of using glass in specific settings. After an designs will be cast using sterling silver. be encouraged to develop a creative approach to initial series of introductory exercises, students will be designing and making your own simple and complex work at their own pace and within tutor-set constraints projects. You will design and produce your own to make a series of small sample pieces and one projects using the techniques covered during the or more resolved works in glass. Students will be remainder of the course. We will explore the potential encouraged to combine techniques in novel ways. of a range of inexpensive metals like copper, brass, silver, silver plate, aluminium or coloured wire to create a variety of results. This course is suitable for beginners and also more advanced students wishing to develop their skills. September 2015 – June 2016 | Jewellery and Glass | Design | Short Courses 41
Creative Rings and Bangles Jewellery: Exploring Materials
Amy P M Chan BA (Hons) Amy P M Chan BA (Hons) Thursdays from 14 April 6.30pm – 9.15pm Thursdays from 19 May 6.30pm – 9.15pm
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3 5 Thomson’s 8 0 £120/ 3 5 Thomson’s 8 0 £120/ Land, Holyrood £90 Land, Holyrood £90 Campus conc Campus conc Prerequisites: Previous experience of jewellery required. Prerequisites: Previous experience of jewellery required. This short workshop-based course enables you to This short workshop-based course enables you to explore your potential as a maker of creative objects explore the possibilities of three-dimensional design by producing an individual, stylish piece of jewellery, through creating jewellery using accessible materials. beginning with the simple band ring. You will explore Time will be spent experimenting with low-tech different techniques used to texture metal using construction and joining methods including knotting/ hand tools and hammers. This course will cover macramé techniques, wire work, image transfer and sawing, filing, soldering and roll printing with further laminating techniques. experiments into bangle making to consider form and After establishing a confident language with the design. materials, you will be encouraged to use this developmental work as a starting point for making a wearable piece of jewellery; from brooches to necklaces using processes which can easily be made in a non-specialist workshop. Send us your Short Course stories so we can celebrate you and your work. Email: [email protected]
To see an overview of our Short Courses programme please go to page 92 42 Short Courses | Design | Textiles | September 2015 – June 2016
Textiles Stitched Textiles 1 Material Spaces, Fibre Structures Fiona R Hutchison BA (Hons) PG Dip {ILA} Fiona R Hutchison BA (Hons) PG Dip {ILA} Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm Tuesdays from 29 September 1.30pm – 4.15pm Introduction to Tapestry Mondays from 11 April 1.30pm – 4.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Fiona R Hutchison BA (Hons) PG Dip {ILA} Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 1 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £230/ Mondays from 28 September 1.30pm – 4.15pm Land, Holyrood £172 1 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £230/ Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Campus conc Land, Holyrood £172 Campus conc Prerequisites: No previous experience required. 1 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £230/ Land, Holyrood £172 3 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £230/ This course will explore the creative potential of fibre Campus conc Land, Holyrood £172 and textile techniques to create and construct three- Campus conc Prerequisites: No previous experience required. dimensional sculptural forms. You will research natural Prerequisites: No previous experience required. This course will introduce you to a range of techniques and man-made structures for inspiration, as well as This course will introduce the creative potential of for weaving tapestry in order to create distinctive art considering a range of artists and designers who work mark-making with textiles and stitch. Experimenting and design works. Exploring the structure of warp and in this way. Utilising a range of material from traditional with traditional and contemporary techniques, you will weft using traditional and non-traditional materials, you domestic fabrics to plastics, papers and industrial develop a creative language using both machine and will experiment with a range of yarns to create surface, materials, the course will encourage you to experiment hand stitches on fabrics, paper, and plastic. During texture and colour blending. The course will encourage and combine techniques to build, coil, mould, bind the course you will produce a range of samples before you to take an individual, innovative and experimental and construct to make a series of developed three- working on a personal project reflecting your own approach to this traditional technique, combining dimensional works which reveal a personal visual interests. it with other constructed textile techniques such as language. knitting and crochet. You will work through a range of samples before developing your own personal project. September 2015 – June 2016 | Textiles | Design | Short Courses 43
Fabricating Fashion Printed Textiles Design Developing Tapestry
Fiona R Hutchison BA (Hons) PG Dip Gemma M C Brown MA (RCA) BA (Hons) {ILA} Fiona R Hutchison BA (Hons) PG Dip {ILA} Tuesdays from 29 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm Mondays from 11 January 1.30pm – 4.15pm
Tuesdays from 12 April 1.30pm – 4.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee
Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 1 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £230/ 2 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £230/ College of Art, £172 Land, Holyrood £172 1 10 Thomson’s 10 0 £220/ Lauriston Pl conc Campus conc Land, Holyrood £165 Campus conc Prerequisites: No previous experience in printed textiles Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of tapestry desirable 3 10 Thomson’s 10 0 £220/ required. but not essential. Land, Holyrood £165 This course introduces you to the basic technical This course will enable you to learn, explore and Campus conc skills necessary to design and print furnishing or practise a range of creative tapestry techniques which Prerequisites: No previous experience required. Some fashion fabric. Using a contemporary colour palette, encourage an ambitious approach to the potential experience of hand and machine sewing desirable. you will become familiar with various screen-printing of the woven structure. You will be shown how to This course will enable you to design and create your techniques and consider the creative process from experiment with the manipulation of warp and weft to own distinctive wearable items using simple garment initial research and drawings through to a printed create exciting and intriguing surfaces, shapes and construction and embellishment techniques. You will fabric. With guidance, you will prepare a screen and structures in woven tapestry and you will develop a learn basic dressmaking skills and a range of creative expose a selection of your own patterns and images body of research to support your creative practice. approaches with stitch and fabric manipulation and onto it. construction. The course will encourage you to explore the creative potential of working with new and recycled textiles as well as non-traditional materials, developing a visual journal of fashion-related ideas, research and drawings to develop and inform a range of investigative samples and finished wearable items. 44 Short Courses | Design | Textiles | September 2015 – June 2016
Stitched Textiles 2 The Whole Cloth Fashion: Drawing, Construction and Embellishment Fiona R Hutchison BA (Hons) PG Dip {ILA} Fiona R Hutchison BA (Hons) PG Dip {ILA} Fiona R Hutchison BA (Hons) PG Dip {ILA} Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Tuesdays from 12 January 1.30pm – 4.15pm Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 2 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £230/ 2 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £230/ Land, Holyrood £172 Land, Holyrood £172 2 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £230/ Campus conc Campus conc Land, Holyrood £172 Campus conc Prerequisites: Some previous experience of working Prerequisites: No previous experience required. Some with stitched textiles desirable. experience of textile manipulation desirable. Prerequisites: Some previous experience of creative fabric manipulation and hand and machine sewing or This course will develop the creative potential of fabric Traditionally, artists and painters used cloth as a the successful completion of ‘Fabricating Fashion’. manipulation. Experimenting with a range of traditional surface or support for colour and pigment, but from This course will introduce you to simple garment and contemporary techniques such as gathering, approx. 1912, cloth came from behind the picture construction, decoration and embellishment taking pleating, tucking, slashing, ripping and piercing, plane and became the chosen medium for many your inspiration from traditional dress. The course will you will explore the versatility of fabric as a creative painters and sculptors. A versatile and expressive encourage you to research a range of global fashion medium. The course will encourage you to investigate medium, it can be planar or pliable. This course will cultures to explore diverse solutions to both making the structure of fabrics through deconstruction and explore the creative potential of cloth and fabrics as an and wearing clothes. You will learn basic dressmaking reconstruction. A range of samples will be worked expressive medium. Students will have the opportunity skills and a range of creative approaches with stitch before developing a personal project reflecting your to explore the creative potential of mixing a range and fabric construction. You will be encouraged to own interests. of fabrics, materials and found objects with textile explore the creative potential of working with new and techniques. Students will be expected to research recycled textiles, recording your ideas and research contemporary art using textiles and textile techniques in a visual journal, leading to a range of investigative and create a body of personal research to support samples and a finished wearable item. their creative development. September 2015 – June 2016 | Visual Communication | Design | Short Courses 45
Printed Textiles: Disperse Dyes and Papers 21st Century Tapestry: Lines of Enquiry Visual Communication Gemma M C Brown MA (RCA) BA (Hons) {ILA} Fiona R Hutchison BA (Hons) PG Dip {ILA}
Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Mondays from 11 April 6.30pm – 9.15pm Introduction to Graphic Design Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Ian Sharman MA MDes {ILA} 2 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £230/ 3 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £230/ Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm College of Art, £172 Land, Holyrood £172 Lauriston Pl conc Campus conc Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Prerequisites: Some previous printed textiles or screen Prerequisites: Some previous weaving or tapestry Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee print experience desirable. experience desirable. Some art and design experience essential. 1 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £210/ This course explores how to mix colour and paint with College of Art, £157 disperse dyes and create stencils with disperse papers This course starts from the basic assumption that Lauriston Pl conc tapestry can sustain novel forms of expression as a to develop a resolved body of textile designs of your 2 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £210/ own ideas and research. You will learn how to use a visually rich and dynamic medium in contemporary art College of Art, £157 heat press machine to transfer imagery onto fabric practice. As part of a basic design vocabulary, line is Lauriston Pl conc and receive guidance as to which fabrics to use when central to this course. The course begins with a series Prerequisites: No previous graphic design experience printing with disperse dyes. You will combine these of experiments exploring line through drawing and required. techniques with existing screen-printing skills to create weaving. Tapestry experiments interpreting line and The course will introduce you to the building blocks a range of prints for furnishing or fashion fabric. constructing line will enable surfaces to be constructed of graphic design, exploring the principles of visual or to be built up from. An exploration into the specific communication and culminating in the development use of materials and choice of warp will increase of your own graphic language. There will be a mix creative possibilities. of paper based and digital exercises to explore compositional design and the social and cultural context of visual communication which will lead to a more focused project. 46 Short Courses | Design | Visual Communication | September 2015 – June 2016
Introduction to Illustration Developing an Illustration Project Developing Graphic Design
Katarzyna Matyjaszek MA MSc {ILA} Katarzyna Matyjaszek MA MSc {ILA} Ian Sharman MA MDes {ILA} Tuesdays from 29 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm Wednesdays from 30 September 1.30pm – 4.15pm Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 9.15pm Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm Wednesdays from 13 April 1.30pm – 4.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee
Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee 1 10 Thomson’s 12 10 £200/ 1 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £210/ Land, Holyrood £150 College of Art, £157 1 10 Edinburgh 12 10 £200/ Campus conc Lauriston Pl conc College of Art, £150 Lauriston Pl conc 2 10 Edinburgh 12 10 £200/ 2 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £210/ College of Art, £150 College of Art, £157 2 10 Edinburgh 12 10 £200/ Lauriston Pl conc Lauriston Pl conc College of Art, £150 Lauriston Pl conc Prerequisites: Some drawing or illustration experience Prerequisites: Basic practical experience in graphic desirable. design and some experience with Adobe InDesign, 3 10 Thomson’s 12 10 £200/ Illustrator and Photoshop is desirable. Drawing Land, Holyrood £150 This course is designed for those who wish to create experience desirable. Students should also come with Campus conc an ambitious personal illustration project. You can an idea of a project/subject they would like to focus on. Prerequisites: No previous illustration experience adapt a written story or series of poems to develop required. these into an involved illustration project or a non- This course aims to consolidate existing skills in graphic design and develop new ones to enable you to This course introduces you to the visual interpretation narrative series of images and ideas which can be produce outcomes that consider audience, application of themes and texts through drawing and mixed visualized further into a series or a book. This course and professional contexts. The course content will media. During the course, you will have the opportunity will provide the support for you to discuss and test out be driven by your own interests within the framework to explore narrative illustration and, based on literary ideas using a range of traditional and non-traditional of a given brief, and will broaden your practical and sources, investigate how to tell a story through images. techniques, methods and concepts. professional understanding of the discipline. You will be taken through a series of illustration briefs which explore the planning and development stages of illustration as well as the context. This will lead to your own visual interpretation to a given or chosen text to create a more ambitious outcome. September 2015 – June 2016 | Visual Communication | Design | Short Courses 47
Children’s Picture Books: Digital Drawing Digital Animation for Artists The Art of Visual Narrative Richard Strachan {ILA} Michael Mullin mProf BA (Hons) {ILA} { } Katarzyna Matyjaszek MA MSc ILA Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 9.15pm Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 9.15pm
Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 9.15pm Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Wednesdays from 13 January 1.30pm – 4.15pm Wednesdays from 13 April 6.30pm – 9.15pm 1 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £210/ 2 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £210/ College of Art, £157 College of Art, £157 Session Wks Venue Places Credits Fee Lauriston Pl conc Lauriston Pl conc Prerequisites: Some digital arts experience or other art Prerequisites: No previous animation experience 1 10 Edinburgh 10 10 £200/ College of Art, £150 and design practice desirable. necessary. Some experience in any art discipline will be useful. Lauriston Pl conc This course introduces the potential of drawing using 2 10 Thomson’s 10 10 £200/ computer software as a means to develop a visual Many artists use the animated moving image as Land, Holyrood £150 language for more personal and focused work. You will part of their means of expression. This course will Campus conc learn a variety of techniques using Adobe Photoshop, introduce a range of techniques and approaches to 3 10 Thomson’s 12 10 £200/ discovering how to combine new technology with digital animation as an artists’ tool to develop creative Land, Holyrood £150 ideas through the moving image. The focus will be Campus conc traditional techniques. Considering line, tone, colour, layering and composition, you will also import your on learning the basics of 2D digital animation using Prerequisites: Drawing or illustration experience own source material and become familiar with a variety Adobe whilst looking at a range of artists’ animated desirable. Successful completion of an introductory films. Through a range of hands-on exercises, such illustration course will be useful. of digital printmaking techniques. as stop frame, cut paper animation and green-screen, The course introduces you to the art of sequential you will gain experience in using a storyboard and imagery and visual narrative with a particular focus on setting up an environment or composition and working children’s picture books. Through a series of practical with sound, to make short animated sequences. exercises and workshops, you will explore all the aspects of creating a picture book from research and initial concept to the final artwork. You will have the opportunity to develop your own illustrative style and learn to apply it to create a successful and engaging picture book narrative. 48 Short Courses | Film, Media and Contemporary Cultures | September 2015 – June 2016
Writing for Publication: Magnificent Obsessions: FILM, MEDIA AND Freelance Journalism A Century of Film Melodrama CONTEMPORARY Mary Gladstone Dip Speech and Drama {ILA} David M. Wingrove AB (Magna) MA BFI Cert Mondays from 28 September 2.10pm – 4.00pm Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm CULTURES Mondays from 11 April 2.10pm – 4.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Course Organiser: Martine Pierquin MA MSc DPSI 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc [email protected] 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Adored by audiences but often scorned by critics, 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ the melodrama or ‘women’s picture’ may be the most Holyrood Campus £81 conc popular genre in film history. From the divas and Latin Lovers of the silent screen to the glamour of Bette Fancy getting into print? Come and learn how to write Davis and Joan Crawford, from the lush Technicolor for newspapers and magazines. Advice and exercises of the 50s to the Post-Modern pastiche of today, on different genres, style, editing, market analysis melodramas tell stories of suffering, passion and and submission of work. Lively class discussion and heartbreak. Come and explore them with clips from evaluation are encouraged. around the world!
French Cinema Martine Pierquin MA MSc DPSI Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 9.20pm
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1 10 Edinburgh Film 0 £110/ Guild, 88 Lothian £73 conc Road Learn more about the popular stars and innovative directors of French cinema. Together we will examine ten critically acclaimed films, all introduced by a short lecture and followed by a group discussion. In November, we will also attend a screening at the French Film Festival (not included in course fee). September 2015 – June 2016 | Film, Media and Contemporary Cultures | Short Courses 49
Contemporary Documentary Film The Art of Modern US Television Screenwriting 1: An Introduction to Writing Alastair Cole BA MSc {ILA} Pasquale Iannone MA MSc PhD for Film and Television Tuesdays from 29 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Douglas Dougan MA MAIE {ILA}
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 13 January 11.10am – 1.00pm 1 10 50 George Square 10 £121/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ £81 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc Session Wks Venue Credits Fee
Contemporary documentary film has developed Since 2000 we have seen ambitious and intelligent 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ an array of styles and approaches, becoming a television drama from the US, with networks afforded Holyrood Campus £81 conc popular and important form of cinema. This course greater freedoms to push boundaries both thematically 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ will introduce major approaches to documentary and formally. This course will explore the recent Holyrood Campus £81 conc filmmaking from the last 20 years. Students will watch developments in quality US television with lively, wide- This lively and interactive course will explore the five full feature films, as well as receiving lectures and ranging discussion of critically acclaimed programmes process of script development and writing, from idea engaging in group discussion. such as The Sopranos and Breaking Bad. to script. It will show how to generate ideas, write a logline and plot synopsis, flesh out characters, Classical Hollywood: Cliché and Innovation structure the story as a screen drama, create a Rolland Man BA MA MSc compelling narrative for visual drama, and get it all down in professional script format. Tuesdays from 29 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm
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1 10 Edinburgh Film 0 £105/ Guild, 88 Lothian £70 conc Road Stars, glamour, the Production Code, big studios, escapism, the Dream Factory. Clichés abound in our view of Hollywood, just as they do in the films produced there. We will take a closer look at the way Hollywood films recycled, reinvented and even revolutionised their own clichés – and how they reflected the dreams (and nightmares) of American society. 50 Short Courses | Film, Media and Contemporary Cultures | September 2015 – June 2016
Introduction to Film Studies New Iranian Cinema Film Studies (Credit Plus) Anthony McKibbin BA {ILA} Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 9.20pm Martine Pierquin MA MSc DPSI {ILA}
Thursdays from 1 October 2.10pm – 4.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Mondays from 11 January 2.10pm – 5.00pm
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 1 5 50 George Square 0 £55/ £36 conc 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £165/ Holyrood Campus £110 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc This course showcases some of the most critically Learn more about film style, narrative, editing, camera acclaimed Iranian films and film directors from Cinema is rightly called the Seventh Art and this course work and film history. Based around fascinating and the Iranian New Wave of the 1960s/70s to post focuses on films as artistic constructs and cultural often surprising film clips from the early years of -revolutionary New Iranian Cinema. We will see how, manifestations, reflecting social and political concerns cinema to the present day, this course will offer you despite censorship codes, filmmakers have developed such as national or gender identity. Some common new ways of looking at film and allow you to explore a distinctive cinematic language and framed the critical approaches to film studies and the relationship and develop your own ideas through class discussion. tensions that run through Iranian society. between film and other fields screening the past, literary adaptation, are also examined. As one of the ‘Plus’ courses for credit students, the course offers guidance on study skills and practice in essay writing. The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock Adaptation for Film Animated Cinema James Dunnigan MA Douglas Dougan MA MAIE Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 9.20pm Wednesdays from 4 November 2.10pm – 4.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee
2 10 50 George Square 0 £105/ 1 10 Edinburgh Film 0 £110/ 1 5 Paterson’s Land, 0 £53/ £70 conc Guild, 88 Lothian £73 conc Holyrood Campus £35 conc Road This introduction looks at animation as a cinematic We will look at the challenges of turning a short An introduction to the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock from medium in its own right through relevant periods, key story, a novel, even a poem into a story that will work the early British work onwards. The films will be studied animators and institutions that have been instrumental on screen. Whether you’re starting from scratch or with particular reference to genre and the star system. to its development. Particular attention will be paid have an existing project that needs fresh insight The key focus will be an examination of Hitchcock’s to notions of reality and memory and to highlighting and guidance, you will develop some of the skills work in the light of the auteur theory. the specificity of animation as opposed to live-action necessary to turn source material into more powerful, cinema. authentic screen drama. September 2015 – June 2016 | Film, Media and Contemporary Cultures | Short Courses 51
Italian Cinema Unsung Heroes of European Cinema New Hollywood Pasquale Iannone MA MSc PhD Rolland Man BA MA MSc Anthony McKibbin BA {ILA} Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 9.20pm Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 9.20pm Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm
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2 10 Edinburgh Film 0 £110/ 2 10 Edinburgh Film 0 £105/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Guild, 88 Lothian £73 conc Guild, 88 Lothian £70 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc Road Road Many now believe American cinema of the seventies This course offers an exciting overview of one of the Many courses and textbooks on cinema mention only was indeed the golden age of US film. Looking at world’s most important national cinemas, moving from moments of innovation and the main artistic currents. some of the key directors of the period – as well as the the hugely influential 1914 epic Cabiria through post- However, the history of cinema is a continuum and the social questions their work addresses and the stylistic war Neorealism, the great auteur and genre cinema of original work of individual filmmakers (some of them approaches utilised – we will look at what makes the 1960s and 70s and coming right up to date with seen as “minor masters”) often provides the link between this era so fascinating. Through clips and discussion the recent, Oscar-nominated The Great Beauty. different schools and generations. This course explores we will try and tease out why films like Taxi Driver, the work of several such European directors. Manhattan and McCabe and Mrs Miller remain such key works. Cinemas and the Movies: An Exploration of Introduction to Ethnographic Film the History of Film Exhibition Alastair Cole BA MSc Derek Wilson MA BA Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm
Tuesdays from 12 January 2.10pm – 5.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 2 5 50 George Square 0 £55/ 2 10 Edinburgh Film 0 £110/ £36 conc Guild, 88 Lothian £73 conc Road This course is a brief overview of ethnographic The nickelodeon, the picture palace, the movie theater, documentary film. It outlines major themes, issues and the pictures, the flicks; cinemas in their various forms challenges within the form, and will provide students have had a major influence on individuals, societies with an understanding of the potential of visual and cultures since their humble beginnings. Through anthropology within cinema and cultural research. extracts, shorts and feature films we explore the Each week will combine a lecture, film screening, and relationship between film exhibition and film audience. post-film discussion. 52 Short Courses | Film, Media and Contemporary Cultures | September 2015 – June 2016
Screenwriting 2: Script Development Director in Focus: Jean Renoir Talking Pictures Douglas Dougan MA MAIE {ILA} James Dunnigan MA Anthony McKibbin BA Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 9.20pm Mondays from 11 April 6.30pm – 9.20pm
Wednesdays from 13 April 11.10am – 1.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 2 10 Edinburgh Film 0 £110/ 3 10 Edinburgh Film 0 £110/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Guild, 88 Lothian £73 conc Guild, 88 Lothian £73 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc Road Road 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ An examination of the films of Jean Renoir exploring Each week we will focus on a particular film and Holyrood Campus £81 conc the ideology of Renoir’s work, its social and political discuss it. The selection of films will be challenging This fun and practical course guides those with a backdrop and his relationship with French and works that demand ‘speculative probing’, are basic knowledge or experience of screenwriting in Hollywood Cinema. The course seeks to establish how relatively little known, or well-known but where a new more advanced creative writing techniques. It will the social, historical and political context of his films, perspective can be found. Join us as we discuss some explore structure, character, scene writing, dialogue beyond directorial personality, gave his work a distinct of the most interesting films of the last fifty years. and screen forms in detail, and enable you to develop stamp. marketable story concepts. Cinema on the Verge – How Do They Do That? Cinema and Extremity The Films of Pedro Almodovar Understanding Film Techniques Anthony McKibbin BA David M. Wingrove AB (Magna) MA BFI Cert Rolland Man BA MA MSc Thursdays from 18 February 6.30pm – 8.20pm Mondays from 11 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Tuesdays from 12 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm
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2 5 Paterson’s Land, 0 £53/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £35 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc
We see many violent images in cinema but do we Arguably the most famous Spanish artist since When and how did the camera start to move? Why have the vocabulary to explain what these images are Picasso, director Pedro Almodovar has entranced are some films in lurid colour while others are more doing to us? Using film clips, we’ll discuss how we audiences and critics around the world. A highly muted? How has the screen changed shape over the respond to images that we feel are real, realistically sophisticated blend of classic Hollywood, European decades? How and why did special effects evolve? extreme, and unrealistically extreme. We will explore both sex and violence and discuss the different ways art-house and popular Spanish cinema, his work If you have ever asked any of these questions, this is we respond to these areas of cinema. demands a closer look. We’ll explore his films and their the course for you. We will explore film as the supreme roots in film history and Spanish culture. marriage of art and technology. This course is for students aged 18 and over. September 2015 – June 2016 | Film, Media and Contemporary Cultures | Short Courses 53
Modernism and The Cinema Investigative Journalism for Print and Film Pasquale Iannone MA MSc PhD {ILA} Thursdays from 14 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm
Wednesdays from 13 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 3 10 Check website 0 £53/ £35 conc 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc The course aims to provide an engaging introduction Drawing on the work of filmmakers such as Ingmar to the field of investigative journalism through lectures, Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni and Nicolas Roeg, screenings and classroom discussion. Combining this course will introduce students to the theories and theory with practical exercises, it will explore the practices of filmic modernism and investigate the ways journalist’s ability to create multi-platform output while in which modernist filmmakers sought to overturn the examining the vital role the investigative tradition has in naturalistic style of Hollywood. holding those in power accountable.
Screenwriting 3: From Page to Screen Film is Memory: Forgotten Narratives, Douglas Dougan MA MAIE Reminiscence and Personal Archives Wednesdays from 13 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 21 April 6.30pm – 9.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee
3 5 Edinburgh Film 0 £55/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Send us your Short Course stories so Holyrood Campus £70 conc Guild, 88 Lothian £36 conc Road we can celebrate you and your work. Want to see your name in lights? This course takes Why does memory resonate so powerfully through the Email: [email protected] screenwriting students to advanced level with medium of moving image and why is it so fascinating professional techniques, practical tips on how to finish a device for filmmakers? Memory is the central theme and polish a screenplay, and teaches vital market of the course and we will examine how this resource is To see an overview of our knowledge so you can truly start to write what sells, drawn upon by filmmakers, both as a tool to represent Short Courses programme and sell what you write. personal narrative and reflexive autobiographical elements. please go to page 92 54 Short Courses | History | September 2015 – June 2016
HISTORY Scotland’s Railways: A History and Geography Empires: The Achaemenid David Spaven MA MSc (6th Century BCE) to the British
Course Organiser: Sally Crumplin BA PhD Mondays from 28 September 11.10am – 1.00pm Emily Stammiti PhD and {ILA} Marc Di Tommasi PhD FHEA [email protected] Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 8.30pm
1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Holyrood Campus £70 conc
Railways have served Scotland for nearly 200 years, 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc influencing economic and social geography, and creating a distinctive impact on the landscape. The A survey of global history through the lens of some of course will explore the massive changes wrought the most influential empires in world history. From the Achaemenid Empire (6th century BCE) to the British through the development, contraction and later revival Empire, this course looks at the rise and fall of empires of the rail network across the country, from the early to discern commonalties and contrasts and to assess 19th century to the present day. their enduring influence.
The Republic of Venice: Scotland: From the Making of the Kingdom Myth and Reality c. 1400 – 1650 to Renaissance Monarchy Lucinda Byatt MA PhD {ILA} Joyce Miller MA PhD {ILA} Mondays from 28 September 2.10pm – 4.00pm Tuesdays from 29 September 10.30am – 12.30pm
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1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 1 10 National Museum 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc of Scotland, £81 conc Chambers St The course will look at the development of Venice, From earliest times, the Stewart dynasty to the great the city and its mainland and maritime empire, over Renaissance monarchs of the 15th century. Explore how a period from c.1400 to c.1650. Politics and religion, Scotland became a nation state, won her medieval wars trade and industry, printing and, of course, art and and established the Stewarts on the throne. architecture will be examined in an overview of the city’s unique contribution to the development of the This course takes place at the National Museum of Renaissance state and Italian and European culture. Scotland. Please meet at the Information Desk in the entrance hall. September 2015 – June 2016 | History | Short Courses 55
Culture and Society in the Middle Ages Witchcraft and Belief in Scotland, From Khartoum to Sarajevo: Britain and Julie Kerr MA MLitt PhD 1563 – 1736 the British Empire from 1870 to 1914 {ILA} Tuesdays from 29 September 11.10am – 1.00pm Joyce Miller MA PhD {ILA} William Brydon MA MBA PhD
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Tuesdays from 29 September 2.10pm – 4.00pm Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc A lively exploration of daily life and culture in the Middle Holyrood Campus £81 conc Ages that draws on contemporary sources from across This course explores the phenomena of witchcraft and This course explores Britain and its empire at the Europe, but with a focus on Scotland. Topics are wide- witch hunting in early modern Scotland. We will examine height of its power, also assessing the challenges ranging and include marriage and the family, work, the prosecution and persecution of those accused, it was facing: growing unrest in Britain and Ireland, leisure, travel and literature. and consider the significance of belief in witchcraft for a controversial war in Africa, and signs of emerging early modern society. Themes covered include religion, opposition to the British Raj in India. popular culture, law and order, illness and death, Scottish Windows, Eastern Skies: Victorian Edinburgh The Scots and Asia, 1750 – 1950 community tensions and gender differences. Helen Rapport MA PhD {ILA} Ian Wotherspoon MA MBA PhD Scottish Handwriting 1: 1500 – 1700 Thursdays from 1 October 10.30am – 12.30pm Tuesdays from 29 September 2.10pm – 4.00pm Jean M Crawford MA and Pete Wadley MA Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Tuesdays from 29 September 5.30pm – 7.00pm 1 10 National Museum 10 £121/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Session Wks Venue Credits Fee of Scotland, £81 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc Chambers St
Scots played a significant role in the development 1 10 General Register 0 £105/ This course considers the complex challenges and House, Princes St £70 conc of modern China, India and Japan as well as other changes wrought in the period 1837 – 1901 within Scotland’s capital city. It examines examples of parts of Asia. Using original documents and including Copies of original documents from the National Records a visit to the National Museum of Scotland, this of Scotland are used to teach the skill of reading old the economic, social and political context in which course will consider why Scots went east and how handwriting. No previous experience required but some ‘Edinburghers’ lived, and assesses their responses to they responded to and interpreted very different preparation for each class will be necessary. An additional the most important Scottish, British and international societies. The course will examine the response of host £5 fee is to be paid to the NRS for the use of facilities. events. communities, assessing reactions to western concepts This course is held at General Register House, Princes This course takes place at the National Museum of of identity and society, tracing the development of Street. Please report to the side door, located to the west Scotland. Please meet at the Information Desk in the Asian communities in Scotland. side of the building. Please bring identification. entrance hall. 56 Short Courses | History | September 2015 – June 2016
‘The Tounis College’: The University of Resistance and Radicalism: Tsars, Tyrants and Tolstoi: Edinburgh, 1583 – 2013 Scotland, 1700 – 1900 Tales of Old Russia Ian Wotherspoon MA MBA PhD Stuart McHardy MA (Hons) John Tait MA Thursdays from 1 October 2.10pm – 4.00pm Fridays from 2 October 10.00am – 12.00pm Tuesdays from 6 October 6.30pm – 8.20pm
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1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 1 10 Education Suite, 0 £105/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Edinburgh Castle £70 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc
A history of the University of Edinburgh since its Discover how egalitarianism and nationalism An introduction to the history of Russia, from its early foundation in 1583. The course will consider the forged anti-Unionist and radical ideas in Scotland beginnings to the politics of the present day. This curriculum through the centuries, contributions of through the 18th and 19th centuries. From Fletcher course will examine the land, people and soul of teachers and students, and the university’s contribution the Patriot, through Burns and Thomas Muir to the Russia through the lives of some of the most famous to knowledge and to cultural and political life at home radical educators of Victorian times, drawing on figures in Russian history and examine their legacy. and overseas. Class visits will provide a unique Enlightenment ideas and ancient traditions, assess opportunity for students to familiarise themselves with how Scotland’s political discourse developed, and 1 DAY Introduction to Scottish the University’s material culture and heritage. where it might end up. COURSE Genealogy This course takes place at Edinburgh Castle. Bruce Durie BSc PhD OMLJ FSAScot FCollT Please bring your class receipt to gain entrance. FIGRS FHEA Friday 9 October 10.00am – 4.00pm
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1 1 Paterson’s Land, 0 £33/ Holyrood Campus £22 conc Learn the skills and find the resources necessary to research, compile, prove and display your own family trees, or those of others. This course will enable you to learn about the basics of roots research, using genealogical source material available both online and from a variety of archived and published sources. September 2015 – June 2016 | History | Short Courses 57
Gunpowder, Treason and 1 DAY A Day of Scottish Heraldry Introducing Scottish Social History 1 DAY COURSE Plot: The Reign of James COURSE (Credit Plus) VI and I Bruce Durie BSc PhD OMLJ FSAScot FCollT Ann Williams MA (Hons) {ILA} FIGRS FHEA William Brydon MA MBA PhD Mondays from 11 January 2.10pm – 5.00pm Friday 13 November 10.00am – 4.00pm Saturday 7 November 10.00am – 4.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Class Venue Credits Fee Session Class Venue Credits Fee 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £165/ Holyrood Campus £110 conc 1 1 Education Suite, 0 £33/ 1 1 Paterson’s Land, 0 £33/ Edinburgh Castle £22 Holyrood Campus £22 An introduction to the social history of Scotland conc conc from 1830 to the present. Explore family life, work, Celebrate Guy Fawkes’ day in a unique way! This course Heraldry (or, more correctly, Armory) is often dismissed housing, health and leisure, and examine the offers an insight into the reign of James VI of Scotland as mere symbology. But there is a body of laws and a changes in people’s lives. Analyse historical texts, and I of England, exploring the politics and plotting of historical, legal and ceremonial context that makes it a autobiographies, visual material and oral history. Learn the 17th century. For anyone interested in the history of strictly regulated part of modern Scotland. The course how to study for credit on a course with study and Scotland, England, politics, or just plain intrigue. culminates in a heraldic tour of the Royal Mile. essay writing skills built in. This course takes place at Edinburgh Castle. Please bring your class receipt to gain entrance. Saints’ Cults in Medieval Europe, The Scottish Wars of Independence, 300 – 1300 1296 – 1357: The Survival of The Kingdom Sally Crumplin BA PhD {ILA} Joyce Miller MA PhD Mondays from 11 January 6.00pm – 7.50pm
Mondays from 11 January 11.10am – 1.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 2 5 Paterson’s Land, 0 £53/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £35 conc Saints’ cults pervaded every aspect of life in medieval This course offers a detailed look at the Scottish Europe: from the elite church, kingship and politics, to Wars of Independence. The five sessions will address the everyday life of Christendom. This course explores the main events of the Wars of Independence and Christian saints’ cults from their popular origins in Bannockburn in 1314, as well as considering aspects the third century, through to thirteenth-century papal of the subsequent legacy. control, using primary sources to consider topics including pilgrimage, relics, art and architecture. 58 Short Courses | History | September 2015 – June 2016
Scotland: From Reformation to Revolution, The Medieval Mind Scottish Handwriting 2: 1500 – 1700 1560 – 1690 Julie Kerr MA MLitt PhD Jean M Crawford MA and Pete Wadley MA {ILA} Joyce Miller MA PhD Tuesdays from 12 January 11.10am – 1.00pm Tuesdays from 12 January 5.30pm – 7.00pm
Tuesdays from 12 January 10.30am – 12.30pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 2 10 General Register 0 £105/ 2 10 National Museum of 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc House, Princes St £70 conc Scotland, Chambers St £81 conc An opportunity to explore various aspects of belief in the Copies of original documents from the National From the Reformation in 1560 to the revolutions of the Middle Ages and to gain an insight into the medieval Records of Scotland are used to teach the skill of 17th century. Discover some of Scotland’s best known mindset. Topics are wide-ranging and include the medieval reading old handwriting. This course follows on from and influential monarchs – Mary, Queen of Scots, James world view, the concept of Christendom, courtly love and Scottish Handwriting 1, allowing students to develop national identities. Primary sources are discussed – including VI, Charles I – within the context of the social and political the skills established during the first course. An vernacular texts – to bring this period to life. factors which influenced early modern Scotland. additional £5 fee is to be paid to the NRS for the use of facilities. This course takes place at the National Museum of From Peel to Palace: The History, Form and Scotland. Please meet at the Information Desk in the This course is held at General Register House, Princes Function of Castles in Scotland entrance hall. Street. Please report to the side door, located to the Joyce Miller MA PhD west side of the building. Please bring identification. Tuesdays from 12 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm Personalities and Politics at the Court Session Wks Venue Credits Fee of the Caesars 2 10 National Museum of 0 £105/ {ILA} Margaret Williams MA PhD Scotland, Chambers £70 conc Tuesdays from 12 January 11.10am – 1.00pm St
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee This course explores Scottish castle building, from duns and brochs to large castles, palaces, tower houses and 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £53/ Renaissance reconstructions, later castellated mansion Holyrood Campus £35 conc houses and modern day rebuilding. We will consider a An introduction to the Roman Empire in the Julio- variety of source material, including maps, folk tales and Claudian period (c.14-68CE). The course will assess legends. An afternoon field trip will be offered as the final the contributions of emperors from Tiberius to Nero, session. and consider the political and social developments of Please meet at the Information Desk in the entrance hall to the period and the expansion of the empire. the National Museum of Scotland. September 2015 – June 2016 | History | Short Courses 59
The Wars of the Roses: Warfare, Politics Machiavelli and Politics, Culture and From Commodus to Constantine: and Society in Late Medieval England Society in Renaissance Italy Collapse, Chaos and Recovery in the David Santiuste MA MLitt {ILA} Lucinda Byatt MA PhD {ILA} Third-Century Roman Empire { } Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 13 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm Margaret Williams MA PhD ILA
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Thursdays from 14 January 11.10am – 1.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ The Wars of the Roses were a series of civil wars that Niccolò Machiavelli is the most famous political thinker Holyrood Campus £81 conc took place in England during the fifteenth century. of Renaissance Italy and The Prince is still widely read A survey of the Roman world between 180 and These conflicts involved a number of fascinating today. We will look at Italian society, politics and culture 325 CE, a time when through internal and external personalities, including Edward IV, Warwick ‘the during the upheavals of the so-called Italian Wars and pressures the Augustan system of government, the Kingmaker’ and the enigmatic Richard III. This the changes in Machiavelli’s native city, Florence, that Principate, collapsed and was eventually replaced by course will help to explain the causes of the wars, culminated in the rule of Duke Cosimo de’Medici. an entirely new form of government, the Dominate. the outcomes of the fighting and the subsequent impact on society. Students will also be encouraged to consider the international dimensions, exploring A History of Edinburgh from Earliest World War II in North West Europe: the significance of England’s relations with Burgundy, Times to 1914 D-Day and the Battle of Normandy France and Scotland. William Brydon MA MBA PhD {ILA} Richard Cherrie BA Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 14 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm
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2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc A survey of the main economic, social and cultural The course will look at the background to D-Day, issues that shaped Edinburgh’s history. From Stone and the preparation for and events of this famous Age fortress through Auld Reekie to World Heritage military operation. We will explore the role of deception site, the Old and New Towns, and the lives of their and technological developments, and analyse the residents, can be explored and appreciated anew. beachhead battles. We will also consider the political impact, and the human experience of the campaign. 60 Short Courses | History | September 2015 – June 2016
African-American History: The Company that Broke a Food and Society in Early Modern Europe 1 DAY From Slavery to the White House Nation: Scotland and the COURSE Lucinda Byatt MA PhD {ILA} {ILA} Darien Scheme Kirsten Phimister MA PhD Tuesdays from 12 April 2.10pm – 4.00pm William Brydon MA MBA PhD Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Saturday 20 February 10.00am – 4.00pm 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Session Class Venue Credits Fee 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc 2 1 Education Suite, 0 £33/ Food has played a key role in history. This course Looking at pivotal periods and events, this course will Edinburgh Castle £22 examines the diets of rich and poor in Early Modern conc survey the experience of African Americans in ‘the land Europe, effects of famine, patterns of consumption, and of the free’, from the arrival of the first Africans in 1619 A one-day course on the Darien Scheme: a bold the relationship with science and religion. It explores the to the election of Barack Obama in 2008. colonial project to give Scotland mastery over trade wider significance of food, as a valuable commodity, and crossing between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. an instrument of power and social control. The course explores the background to the scheme; its failure, leading to financial ruin for many Scots; and ‘Ye Jacobites by Name’: The History and the later impact on Scotland, including discussion of Classics (Credit Plus) Songs of the Jacobite Risings the union of 1707. John Gordon BA PhD {ILA} Joyce Miller MA PhD This course takes place at Edinburgh Castle. Wednesdays from 13 April 10.10am – 1.00pm Please bring your class receipt to gain entrance. Mondays from 15 February 11.10am – 1.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £165/ 2 5 Paterson’s Land, 0 £53/ Holyrood Campus £110 conc Holyrood Campus £35 conc An introduction to ancient Greek and Roman literature Using a range of sources including poetry and songs, and history. The course will be based on the study this short course covers the dramatic events of the of extracts from key texts. There will also be weekly Jacobite Risings between 1698 and 1746, from the first study skills tuition and associated exercises, covering rejection of the Protestant reign of William and Mary reading and writing skills related to the texts under to the humiliating defeat and aftermath of the battle of consideration. Culloden. September 2015 – June 2016 | History | Short Courses 61
A Land Fit for Heroes? Women in American History: From Labour’s Lost Leader: 1 DAY Britain and the British Empire Between Pocahontas to the Presidential Election The Tragic Career of James COURSE the Two World Wars Kirsten Phimister MA PhD {ILA} Ramsay MacDonald { } William Brydon MA MBA PhD ILA Thursdays from 14 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm William Brydon MA MBA PhD
Wednesdays from 13 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Saturday 21 May 10.00am – 4.00pm
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Class Venue Credits Fee 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 3 1 Education Suite, 0 £33/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc From Pocahontas to the 2008 Presidential election, Edinburgh Castle £22 conc Explore Britain and its empire between the wars, from its this course will use case studies to explore the lives of James Ramsay MacDonald was a key figure in the powerful position after the First World War, through social women in their own words, and to assess the changing emergence of Labour as a party of government in and economic challenges at home, growing unrest experience of women in American history. Britain in the early twentieth century, but was later within the Empire and mounting tensions in Europe. expelled from the party. This one-day course explores MacDonald’s life and career, his record as a politician and Prime Minister, and the events that led to his Scotland’s Long 19th Century, The Geomythography of Scotland dramatic break with Labour in 1931. 1815 –1914: Issues, Ideas, Identities Stuart McHardy MA (Hons) This course takes place at Edinburgh Castle. Ian Wotherspoon MA MBA PhD Fridays from 15 April 10.10am – 12.00pm Please bring your class receipt to gain entrance. Thursdays from 14 April 2.10pm – 4.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 3 10 Education Suite, 0 £105/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Edinburgh Castle £70 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc An introduction to the geomythographic process which This course will examine the key issues relating to the combines folklore, history, archaeology, place-name cultural, social, political and economic changes that studies and landscape reading to give new insights took place in Scottish society between 1815 and 1914 into ritual and belief in pre-Christian Scotland and later. and explore how Scottish identity changed during This course takes place at Edinburgh Castle. To see an overview of our this period. We will review the effect both of external Please bring your class receipt to gain entrance. emigration and immigration to Scotland from Ireland Short Courses programme and elsewhere. please go to page 92 62 Short Courses | Literature | September 2015 – June 2016
LITERATURE Shakespeare’s Comedies The Modern History Play R Liz Hare MA GSHDip {ILA} James Ellison MA DPhil and R Liz Hare MA GSHDip
Course Organiser: Rachael King MA Mondays from 28 September 11.10am – 1.00pm Mondays from 28 September 2.10pm – 4.00pm [email protected] Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee
1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc
An introduction to some of Shakespeare’s best-loved Most people think of Shakespeare when they think comedies with extensive video and DVD material of of history plays, but there is a substantial body of different interpretations from early Hollywood to the fine modern drama which handles historical themes present day. Plays will include The Comedy of Errors, A and their relevance to present-day problems of the Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Twelfth Night. individual’s relation to society, politics, and nationalism. Plays will include The Shadow of a Gunman, moving on to T S Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, Brecht’s The Life of Galileo , Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and Liz Lochhead’s Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off. We will conclude with Rhona Munro’s triumphant The James Plays which was a huge hit in last year’s International Festival.
To see an overview of our Short Courses programme please go to page 92 September 2015 – June 2016 | Literature | Short Courses 63
Modern British Poetry Introducing Literature 1 (Credit Plus) Booker Prize Novels 6 Lisa Otty MA MSc PhD {ILA} Anya Clayworth BA (Hons) PhD {ILA} Anya Clayworth BA (Hons) PhD {ILA} Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Tuesdays from 29 September 5.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 30 September 10.00am – 11.50am
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1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £168/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £113 Holyrood Campus £81 conc conc This course explores British poetry from the post-war The Man Booker Prize is a literary prize awarded Do you want to study literature but feel that you lack period to the present. Alternating between broader each year for the best original novel, written in the the skills? Do you need to re-master the fundamentals? surveys and close studies of individual poets, it will English language, and published in the UK. The Combining study skills such as note taking and essay consider how poetry can explore, create and challenge Booker winners list presents a unique opportunity writing with close reading, this course provides strong our sense of identity. The course will introduce different to explore the breadth and variety of literature from foundations for the further study of literature. We kinds of poetic form and technique, and give students 1969 to the present. This course will look at winners begin with Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations before the vocabulary and analytical skills to discuss poetry of this prestigious literary prize and evaluate the merit discussing some key poetry and finish with Oscar with confidence. of judging literature in this way. We consider two-time Wilde’s fun play, The Importance of Being Earnest. winner Hilary Mantel’s fictionalised biography of Come along and discover new ways of reading. Counting the Times: Thomas Cromwell, John Banville’s musings on the Contemporary British Short Fiction nature of memory in The Sea and Anne Enright’s exploration of death in The Gathering. We will also Anthony McKibbin BA explore Ben Okri’s take on magical realism and Tuesdays from 29 September 2.10pm – 4.00pm Richard Flanagan’s account of the effects of being a Session Wks Venue Credits Fee POW on the Burma railway.
1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc
This course provides an opportunity to examine British short fiction in some detail. In each session we will take a contemporary, post-war story and look at its form and its content, as well as address other issues and ideas pertinent to the texts. Conversation-based, as much as tutor led, this class is ideal for people who have something to learn and also something to say. 64 Short Courses | Literature | September 2015 – June 2016
20th Century European Drama Larkin’ Around – The Rise of the Anti-Hero Rolland Man BA MA MSc The Poetry of Philip Larkin James Ellison MA DPhil {ILA} Wednesdays from 30 September 2.10pm – 4.00pm Joyce Caplan Dip CommEd Fridays from 2 October 11.10am – 1.00pm
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Thursdays from 1 October 11.10am – 1.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Holyrood Campus £70 conc 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 1 5 Paterson’s Land, 0 £53/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc This course aims to complement other short courses Holyrood Campus £35 conc Disillusionment, alienation, existential purposelessness, in drama and offer a broader understanding of the A journey through the poetry of Philip Larkin illuminated the search for an alternative morality and many other development of European drama in the 20th century. by his letters, his notebooks and his friends. characteristic troubles and discontents of 19th century By studying examples from different currents and European culture form the basis of this course. We will cultures as well as theoretical texts of the time, begin with one of the finest French novels, Benjamin students will be better able to understand the The Contemporary American Novel Constant’s tale of introverted, destructive sexuality, transformations in the concept and practice of drama {ILA} Adolphe. We then move on to the archetypal brooding during the 20th century. Roxana Preda PhD Byronic hero in Manfred, his Russian re-incarnation in Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 8.20pm Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time, the first of the French Divine Decadence: Session Wks Venue Credits Fee ‘outsider’ novels in Stendhal’s The Red and the Black, Dark Fantasy in 19th Century Fiction the first truly existentialist novel in Dostoevsky’s Notes 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ David M. Wingrove AB (Magna) MA BFI Cert Holyrood Campus £81 conc from the Underground. We finish with Franz Kafka’s paranoid Metamorphosis and Camus’s great study of Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm This course explores the varied landscape of alienation in French Algeria, The Outsider. Session Wks Venue Credits Fee contemporary American fiction, seeking to showcase 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ representative works and achieve a balance between Holyrood Campus £70 conc innovative prose and good traditional storytelling. The novels we study will be an opportunity to meet Most readers see the 19th century as the age of the important American writers of today like Morrison, great realist novel. Yet the same era saw an explosion of Roth, and Doctorow, study their ideas, their style and fantasy, exploring the wildest realms of the imagination the various ways in which they relate to contemporary and the darkest depths of the human soul. We’ll explore American society, moral dilemmas and the literary this ‘other’ tradition from the Romantics to the Decadents tradition. – with works by Coleridge, Hoffmann, Balzac, Gautier, D’Annunzio, Wilde, Henry James and others. September 2015 – June 2016 | Literature | Short Courses 65
Russian Literature: An Introduction D H Lawrence and E M Forster Modernist Fiction 2 Elena Moore PhD Cert Russian FL R Liz Hare MA GSHDip {ILA} Tara Thomson BA MSc PhD {ILA} Fridays from 2 October 2.10pm – 4.00pm Mondays from 11 January 11.10am – 1.00pm Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm
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1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc
The course introduces the fascinating world of This course will explore works by two great writers This course focuses on some of the most exciting medieval and classic Russian literature in a historic of fiction who were personally aquainted and made developments in early 20th century writing. It explores and social context. Starting with the 12th century illuminating and provocative comments on each works by modernist authors such as James Joyce, literature, it will examine important stages of its other’s work. Students will learn about the impact of William Faulkner and Jean Rhys, who developed formation and development. You will explore the E M Forster and D H Lawrence’s childhoods, social radical new styles, challenging formal and social greatest pieces of writing created by both the most class, and education on their writing; and will also conventions, and creating innovative works that influential Russian authors, such as Turgenev, Tolstoy become acquainted with their theories about literature reshaped our understanding of literature. and Dostoevsky, and those whose names are hidden and the extent to which these shed light on their under the layers of history. practice as writers. Small Flat Items: We will discover more about the two writers’ The Modern Scottish Short Story comparative struggles against what they perceived Anthony McKibbin BA as repressive and hypocritical in the attitudes of their Tuesdays from 12 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm contemporaries, especially to social class and sex; the way travel and personal relationships enabled both Session Wks Venue Credits Fee to achieve a measure of sexual fulfilment and artistic 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ integrity, which finds expression in their mature works Holyrood Campus £70 conc of fiction. A look at the rich possibilities available in the modern Scottish short story, the course will look at how a small country can nevertheless produce big literature. From Alasdair Gray to James Kelman, from Ian Crichton Smith to Douglas Dunn, we’ll examine the interior and exterior landscape that happens to be contemporary Scottish writing. 66 Short Courses | Literature | September 2015 – June 2016
Introducing Literature 2 (Credit Plus) The Great Detectives 6 European Fiction in Translation Anya Clayworth BA (Hons) PhD {ILA} Anya Clayworth BA (Hons) PhD {ILA} Rolland Man BA MA MSc Tuesdays from 12 January 5.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 13 January 10.00am – 11.50am Wednesdays from 13 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm
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2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £168/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £113 Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc conc Detective fiction is a fascinating genre because of the This course explores some of the key texts in European This course examines some well-known texts including sheer multiplicity of novels within it. This course aims to fiction from established classics such as Theodor Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde, John tease out the differing approaches that detective fiction Fontane’s Effi Briest and Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and Shakespeare’s writers have used. We will study Fyodor Dostoevsky’s of the Finzi-Continis to Georges Simenon’s The Blue King Lear as well as a selection of poetry. Students will meditation on the morality of murder in the name of a Room and José Saramago’s Blindness. Join us as we be encouraged to read in depth and discuss the texts higher purpose and Graham Greene’s exploration of explore some Europe‘s finest writing. in small groups and as a class. Study and essay- sin and damnation in the gangland world of Brighton. writing skills will be further developed. New students We will explore how the narration of the crimes of two welcome. Angels and Androgynes – Fantastical sociopathic murderers affects our engagement with Beings in Modern Fiction these cold-blooded criminals and look at the first David M. Wingrove AB (Magna) MA BFI Cert ‘tartan noir’ novel, William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw. Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm
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2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc
Modern readers and writers desire characters that break the rules - defying categories of gender and age, nature and sexuality. From the early Modernists to the Urban Goth fantasists of today, we’ll explore this richly subversive theme. Authors include Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Truman Capote, Isak Dinesen, Graham Greene, James Purdy, Manuel Puig, Angela Carter and Tanith Lee. September 2015 – June 2016 | Literature | Short Courses 67
Vampire Fiction Dickens and Balzac – Vive la Différence! Shakespeare and the Tragedy of Love David M. Wingrove AB (Magna) MA BFI Cert David M. Wingrove AB (Magna) MA BFI Cert and James Ellison MA DPhil {ILA} Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Rolland Man BA MA MSc Fridays from 15 January 11.10am – 1.00pm
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc From prehistoric legends to contemporary pop culture, Some of the greatest Elizabethan and Jacobean the world has been in thrall to the myth of the vampire. Charles Dickens and Honoré de Balzac were the tragedies revolve around conflicts between love and Now is a chance to explore the rich literary heritage of the defining literary geniuses of the 19th century and the duty, accepted forms of sexuality versus transgressive undead. Authors include Bram Stoker, Théophile Gautier, creators of the modern novel. Yet their radically different ones, and between jealousy and trust. The writers Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Anne Rice and styles say a lot about the contrasting cultures of Britain of the period created a number of superb tragedies Tanith Lee. We’ll also take a look at vampires on film, and France, a ‘culture war’ that persists today. Examining focusing on the unruly passion of love: we will study from Bela Lugosi to Twilight. four of their major works, we’ll explore what made them Marlowe’s Edward II, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet different and what made them great. (c.1596), Othello and Anthony and Cleopatra. We will Robert Burns: A Celebration conclude with one of the finest Jacobean tragedies on this theme, Middleton’s The Changeling (1622). Joyce Caplan Dip CommEd Thursdays from 14 January 11.10am – 1.00pm
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2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc
The course aims to deepen students’ understanding and appreciation of Burns’ poems and songs through detailed study of the richness and relevance of his work. We shall explore his songs and poems and consider the huge impact and enduring popularity of his writing. 68 Short Courses | Literature | September 2015 – June 2016
20th Century Russian Literature: The Unreliable Narrator 2 Literature of the 1920s An Introduction Anya Clayworth BA (Hons) PhD {ILA} James Ellison MA DPhil and R Liz Hare MA GSHDip Elena Moore PhD Cert Russian FL Wednesdays from 13 April 10.00am – 11.50am Wednesdays from 13 April 2.10pm – 4.00pm
Fridays from 15 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc Wayne C. Booth first identified the difference between Literature of this period marks the heyday of Modernism, The course focuses on the analysis of famous and a reliable and unreliable narrator as part of his reader- a fragmentary, ironic and alienated response to the less well known short stories and novellas of Russian centred approach to critical thinking in the 1960s. The horrors of the Great War. Texts will include Pirandello’s literature, and their place in the context of the ideological unreliable narrator has, however, been around for a absurdist masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an struggles of 20th century Russia. The realist and the great deal longer than that in literature. We will study a Author, T S Eliot’s neurasthenic The Wasteland, Noel fantastic, revolution, war and peace, years of terror and number of examples of the unreliable narrator from a Coward’s account of drug abuse and sexual deviance “thaw” are explored through the texts of Pilnyak, Babel, number of different genres including the Gothic short among the English aristocracy, The Vortex, F. Scott Bunin, Solzhenitsyn and other well-known Russian writers. story, a ghost novella, a dystopian novel and a realist Fitzgerald’s great anatomization of the Jazz Age, The novel set at the time of the Glasgow International Great Gatsby and Ernest Hemingway’s brilliant account Fearsome Triviality: Ten Novellas Exhibition of 1888. Our discussions will focus on how of the ‘Lost Generation’ in Europe, The Sun Also Rises. Anthony McKibbin BA the reader builds a relationship with an unreliable narrator and whether or not our bond of trust with our Tuesdays from 12 April 2.10pm – 4.00pm touchstone in a novel is finally compromised by their Session Wks Venue Credits Fee unreliability. 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc
The novella might be the ideal form to explore a topic without stretching it to the narrative sprawl of the novel. Whether it is reflections of a priest in By Night in Chile, a country hotel visit in Slowness, or the “fearsome triviality”, as one critic proposed, of a man’s peace of mind crumbling when confronted by a bird in The Pigeon, great themes can come out of minimal narrative exploration. September 2015 – June 2016 | Literature | Short Courses 69
Great Irish Drama Understanding Poetry War and Peace: R Liz Hare MA GSHDip {ILA} Roxana Preda PhD {ILA} A Study of the Great Russian Epic Thursdays from 14 April 11.10am – 1.00pm Thursdays from 14 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Elena Moore PhD Cert Russian FL
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Fridays from 15 April 2.10pm – 4.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc 3 5 Paterson’s Land, 0 £53/ A fresh look at some of the much-loved plays from This course is an introduction to the theory of poetry. It Holyrood Campus £35 conc 19th and 20th century Ireland, including Wilde’s The provides an overview of the key categories of poetry, This course will closely examine one of the world’s Importance of Being Earnest, Synge’s The Playboy of aiming to give students a theoretical and critical toolkit greatest epic novels. Written by Leo Tolstoy in the 19th the Western World, O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock necessary in the analysis of poems. The course uses century, War and Peace offers an incredible opportunity and McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane. This selected examples and seeks to provide a combination to investigate society during the Napoleonic War survey course will explore the plays’ dark humour, of theoretical principles and close reading. era in Russia. Through this novel we can discover the richness of their language and will draw out their various facets of human nature and see how society is cultural and political significance. Jacobean Drama reflected in Tolstoy’s writing. Heroes, Gods and Monsters: James Ellison MA DPhil {ILA} An Introduction to the Classics Fridays from 15 April 11.10am – 1.00pm
Rolland Man BA MA MSc Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Thursdays from 14 April 2.10pm – 4.00pm 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Session Wks Venue Credits Fee The Jacobean period saw the production of some of the 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc greatest plays ever written in English, encompassing a rich diversity of genres and styles, from Shakespeare at Thrilling adventures, battles with monsters, the wrath the height of his rhetorical complexity, to the plainer and of the Gods, passions larger than life – sound familiar? more direct styles of city comedy and Jacobean tragedy. These can be the ingredients of pulp fiction or a This course will explore the Jacobean writers and how vital part of Classical texts. Figures such as Ulysses, their anxieties about the court and government of James the Cyclops or Medea have crossed centuries and I, and the way their society and culture was rapidly continents and still inspire artists today. We will explore changing, were powerfully reflected in their tragedies and how they are still relevant to our world. comedies. 70 Short Courses | Music | September 2015 – June 2016
MUSIC Practical Musicianship Favourite Composers I Ciara Coleman BA MA Ron Butlin MA Dip
Course Organiser: Rachael King MA Fridays from 18 September 2.10pm – 4.00pm Mondays from 28 September 2.10pm – 4.00pm [email protected] Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee
1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 1 6 Paterson’s Land, 0 £63/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £42 conc
This course aims to demystify reading music. Pitch, This six-week course will be of interest to general rhythm and metre will feature, and participants will be music lovers who would like to gain an overview of the taught to read and write the building blocks of Western history of western classical music from the Baroque notation, through practical exercises and using Kodály period to Classical and early Romantic. CD excerpts methodology. A typical class will include singing, reading and lots of discussion. Non-technical. and writing exercises, rhythmic clapping and improvisation.
1 DAY COURSE Jazz in Scotland The Blues
Dick Lee BMus Dick Lee BMus Friday 25 September 10.00am – 4.00pm Tuesdays from 29 September 11.10am – 1.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Class Venue Credits Fee
1 1 Paterson’s Land, 0 £33/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £22 Holyrood Campus £70 conc conc Covering the history and a musical analysis of the The history of jazz in Scotland up to the present day, Blues, from its beginnings in the 19th century to the covering early recordings and the technology used to play present day. Illustrated with plentiful recorded audio To see an overview of our them, visiting artists, home grown artists and festivals etc., and visual clips, and live examples played by Dick. with plentiful examples both recorded and played live by Short Courses programme Dick Lee. please go to page 92 September 2015 – June 2016 | Music | Short Courses 71
300 Years of Piano Music A Scottish Songbook Scottish Chamber Orchestra 1 DAY COURSE Iain Matheson BMus (Hons) Wendy Carle Taylor MA PGCE Explore: Wagner Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 8 October 2.10pm – 4.00pm Places on this course should be booked via the link below or telephone: 0131 557 6800 Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Saturday 31 October 10.30am – 4.30pm 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 1 6 Paterson’s Land, 0 £63/ This is a one-day course taking place at the Reid Hall. Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £42 conc £30.00 (no conc).
An overview of classical piano music, from the Sing the songs of Scotland and savour their stirring This Explore day will look at Wagner’s Wesendonck invention of the instrument, to the latest compositions. melodies and significance! This course is designed Lieder and Siegfried Idyll, two of Wagner’s most How the fortepiano became the pianoforte; piano to promote an enjoyment of the Scottish oral tradition. performed non-operatic works. Both inspired by music for royal patrons, or public concerts; music We shall explore the melody and lyrics of a selection of Wagner’s personal relationships, the two works offer for amateurs and virtuosi; music for living rooms, or traditional and contemporary songs and discuss their fascinating insights into how Wagner’s private life fed concert halls by Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Chopin, origins and historical, economic, political and social into his compositional output. Over the course of the Brahms and many more. context. No previous experience of singing is required day, we will examine the compositional history of the and there is no need to read music. two works; we will look at some of their most striking musical features, their autobiographical content, and Popular Music 1950 – 2000: Tchaikovsky in the Opera Theatre their relationship to Wagner’s operas. Karen Cargill will join us for part of the day to discuss the role of the Ten Landmark Albums James (Stuart) Campbell BMus PhD ARCM soprano in Wagner’s works. Pasquale Iannone MA MSc PhD Fridays from 30 October 2.10pm – 4.00pm Delivered by Dr Elaine Kelly from the University Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee of Edinburgh in partnership with the University of Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Edinburgh Short Courses; this Explore day links to the 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ SCO performance of Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc and Siegried Idyll with Robin Ticciati and Karen Cargill The theatre was a significant place in Tchaikovsky’s on 5th November at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall and 6th From Sinatra to The Smiths, Elvis to Stevie Wonder, this life and career. We explore the composer’s operatic November at Glasgow’s City Halls. course will examine ten era-defining albums spanning ideals and consider how they were realised, both in five decades of popular music. The ideas and the often performed Eugene Onegin and some of the www.sco.org.uk/performances/524-wagner- concepts behind each record will be explored in depth, other works, which use subjects from Joan of Arc to explore-day together with their ground-breaking sonic textures. Ivan the Terrible and draw on sources from Gogol’ to historical novels. 72 Short Courses | Music | September 2015 – June 2016
1 DAY COURSE Singing Burns! More of Larkin’s Jazz Ten Centuries of Classical Music
Wendy Carle Taylor MA PGCE Dick Lee BMus Iain Matheson BMus (Hons) Friday 27 November 10.00am – 4.00pm Tuesdays from 12 January 11.10am – 1.00pm Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Class Venue Credits Fee
2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 1 1 Paterson’s Land, 0 £33/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £22 conc Between 1961and 1971 the celebrated poet and jazz Ten centuries of classical music in ten weeks, Celebrate the forthcoming anniversary of Andrew, lover Philip Larkin wrote a monthly column of critical beginning at the time music notation was invented, the patron saint of Scotland, by singing the world- evaluations of jazz recordings. Each illustrated talk is around 1000CE. A bird’s-eye view of 1,000 years of renowned songs of our national bard, Robert Burns! based on a different column, one from each year, with classical music; medieval to modern, Perotin to Part. We shall explore the melody and lyrics of a selection of both the actual recordings and live examples played The beginnings of written music; changing styles for his work ranging from beautiful love ballads to stirring by Dick. voices and instruments; how does recording affect our political anthems. This follows on from last year’s very successful Larkin’s view of music history? No previous experience of singing is required and there Jazz* course; with 12 columns from each year to is no need to read music. choose from, there is a wealth of source material. Practical Musicianship 2 * Not a prerequisite. Ciara Coleman BA MA Favourite Composers II Fridays from 15 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm Ron Butlin MA Dip Opera Afternoons Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Mondays from 11 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm Stuart Campbell BMus PhD ARCM 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Wednesdays from 13 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm Develop your musicianship skills from a basic 1 6 Paterson’s Land, 0 £63/ Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Holyrood Campus £42 conc understanding of western notation. Using Kodály methodology, students will improve their reading and This six-week course will be of interest to music lovers 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc writing skills through song, rhythmic clapping and who would like to gain an overview of the history of improvisation, dictation, and composing. Building western classical music from the Romantic period This course examines operas performed in Scotland on previous knowledge of simple time signatures to the early 20th century. CD excerpts and lots of during season 2015 –16, principally by Scottish Opera and pentatonic and major tonalities, students will be discussion. Non-technical. No previous knowledge and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. One or two introduced to compound and irregular time signatures, required. weeks will be devoted to each opera. and minor tonalities. September 2015 – June 2016 | Music | Short Courses 73
Music and Politics The Life and Music of Claude Debussy 1 DAY Scottish Chamber Orchestra Iain Matheson BMus (Hons) Stuart Campbell BMus PhD ARCM COURSE Explore: Bach Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 13 April 11.10am – 1.00pm Places on this course should be booked via the link below or telephone: 0131 557 6800 Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Saturday 23 April 10.30am – 4.30pm 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc This is a one-day course taking place at the Reid Hall. £30.00 (no conc). The relationship between music and politics is an Debussy is one of the most influential composers Even by Bach’s standards, his Magnificat is an enormous field with many interesting facets. This of the early 20th century. This course considers exceptional work. The version we usually hear today is course introduces some of the key political concepts a selection of his compositions in the context a revision made by Bach 10 years after its Christmas by drawing on examples from classical, folk and of the artistic climate of his time, referring to the Day performance in 1723, so how did he revise it? It popular music. poets and painters he most admired. Through was written for the Protestant Lutheran church, and abundant illustrations in sound and vision, possible intended for the service of Vespers, so why is it in Latin? correspondences across art forms are explored. How does Bach respond to this traditional text, the Song of Mary from the Gospel according to St Luke? What instrumental resources are involved, and how many Around the World in Song singers participated in the early performances? Join Icons of Jazz John Kitchen and hear this masterwork discussed, with Dick Lee BMus Wendy Carle Taylor MA PGCE excerpts performed by SCO musicians. Tuesdays from 12 April 11.10am – 1.00pm Thursdays from 21 April 2.10pm – 4.00pm This Explore day links to the SCO performance of Bach’s Magnificat 28th April at Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall and Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 29th April at Glasgow’s City Halls. 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £63/ www.sco.org.uk/performances/548-js-bach-explore- Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £42 conc day This course offers some technical insight and a look This course will explore the melody and lyrics of a at the historical contexts of some of the jazz main Instruments of the Orchestra selection of beautiful songs from around the world and innovators. We hope this course will enable deeper Iain Matheson BMus (Hons) discuss their origin and cultural context. appreciation of familiar players, as well as introducing Wednesdays from 27 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm some new names and also some analysis of their work. No previous experience of singing is required and there Session Wks Venue Credits Fee is no need to read music. All welcome! 3 6 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc A lively and informative introduction to the instruments which make up the orchestra, from 17th century to the present day. 74 Short Courses | Personal Development | September 2015 – June 2016
PERSONAL Life Coaching Foundations of Counselling and Michele Armstrong BA Dip Com Ed ILM L5 Psychotherapy 1 Mngt Coaching Janis Abernathy BA MFA {ILA} DEVELOPMENT Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm
Course Organiser: James Mooney MA (Hons) Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee [email protected] 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc
Experience Life Coaching tools, tips and techniques This course aims to survey the many different theories for yourself and learn how to create positive change in and approaches of counselling and psychotherapy. your life/work. Participants will be invited to apply the The emphasis is on theory and learning with some coaching processes – goal setting, vision creation, opportunities for practical work and exploring personal and taking action – to their own lives so they can experience (within appropriate boundaries). experience the value of coaching for themselves. Course 1 covers: the work of Rogers, interpersonal psychotherapy, cognitive-analytic and cognitive behavioural theories, and an overview of Jung. Confidence in Public Speaking Leadership Skills Jacqueline Whymark BEd (Hons) MA Voice Michele Armstrong BA Dip Com Ed ILM L5 Tuesdays from 29 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Mngt Coaching Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Taking your thoughts and ideas ‘off the page’ and engaging people, in often time-limited situations, What does it mean to be a good leader? What are the are learned skills. Being able to control and harness essential characteristics required? This experiential and the power of your voice is crucial to inspiring an hands-on course will allow students to analyse and audience of one or of many. This course offers you an reflect on current leadership performance and develop opportunity to develop new confidence in your abilities and utilise new skills, tools, and models to improve as a persuasive communicator. leadership (and self-leadership) practice. September 2015 – June 2016 | Personal Development | Short Courses 75
Positive Psychology Learning Afresh Foundations of Counselling and Angela Jackson BA (Hons) MA PGCE Stephen Watt MA (Hons) PhD and Psychotherapy 3 Ann Williams MA (Hons) { } Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Janis Abernathy BA MFA ILA Thursdays from 18 February 9.45am – 1.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Wednesdays from 13 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £78/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £52 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc Positive psychology is the study of the means by which people can live happier and more fulfilling lives. This This specially-designed short course aims to give you This course aims to survey the many different theories course will introduce the various elements of positive the study skills you need to make a success of any and approaches of counselling and psychotherapy. psychology, and work with students on ways to future study. If you are planning to apply for an Access The emphasis is on theory and learning with some incorporate them into their everyday lives. course, this is the perfect starting point to refresh your opportunities for practical work and exploring personal study skills. experience (within appropriate boundaries). Foundations of Counselling and Course 3 covers Humanistic approaches: Gestalt Alexander Technique: Psychotherapy 2 therapy, transactional analysis, Yalom, Art therapy, Helping You Help Yourself Janis Abernathy BA MFA {ILA} transpersonal therapy, group and family therapy. Linda Wyman DipEd STAT Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 13 April 2.10pm – 4.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc 3 6 Paterson’s Land, 0 £63/ Holyrood Campus £42 conc This course aims to survey the many different theories and approaches of counselling and psychotherapy. The Alexander technique is widely recognised as a tool The emphasis is on theory and learning with some for personal change and improvement. This course opportunities for practical work and exploring personal will provide participants with the tools to improve the experience (within appropriate boundaries). quality of their performance and artistic expression, their effectiveness and efficiency, their standard of Course 2 covers the psychodynamic underpinnings To see an overview of our well-being and quality of life. A way of thinking that of counselling and psychotherapy: the theories Short Courses programme can bring more freedom and ease of movement into of Freud, Klein, Fairbairn, Erikson, Winnicott and everything you do. please go to page 92 Mahler; psychoanalytic revisionists; controversies in psychoanalysis. 76 Short Courses | Philosophy and Religion | September 2015 – June 2016
PHILOSOPHY AND Philosophy of Art Arguing About Religion John Gordon BA PhD {ILA} Stephen Watt MA (Hons) PhD {ILA} RELIGION Mondays from 28 September 11.10am – 1.00pm Tuesdays from 29 September 2.10pm – 4.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Course Organiser: James Mooney MA (Hons) [email protected] 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc
A historical approach to the philosophical problems Questions about religion fill the media. Should the which are presented by art: its production and its government finance faith schools? Should Muslim appreciation. Commencing with the ancient Greeks, women be discouraged from wearing veils? Has the course proceeds, via the 18th and 19th centuries, science disproved the existence of God? We will be to key 20th century ideas on the nature and role of art. considering what philosophy has to say concerning some current controversies about religion and its place in the modern world.
The World’s Religions: Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment A Comparative Introduction John Gordon BA PhD {ILA} Liam Sutherland MA MSc Tuesdays from 29 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm
Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc 18th century Edinburgh was described by Smollet as What is religion? How have different religions ‘a hotbed of genius’. This course will utilise extracts developed? How are the boundaries and contents of from primary sources written by some of the greatest religious traditions decided? This course will provide philosophical thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, to a historical overview of the major fields of religious establish the truth of this claim. studies, providing an insight into how religious scholars go about their work and present their findings. September 2015 – June 2016 | Philosophy and Religion | Short Courses 77
Concepts of the Self Learning to Philosophise (Credit Plus) An Introduction to Philosophy David Allan MSc MA Stephen Watt MA (Hons) PhD {ILA} James Mooney MA (Hons) Tuesdays from 29 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 30 September 10.10am – 1.00pm Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 8.20pm
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1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £165/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £110 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc
This course explores the philosophical history of Is abortion wrong? How do I know that you have a What can we know? Does God exist? Do I have free personal identity and the ‘self’. It will draw from both mind? Is there anything special about science? As well will? How should I act? Does life have meaning? This the western and continental philosophical traditions as an introduction to a broad range of philosophical course offers an introduction to the main areas of and aims to show the difficulties and complexities questions such as these, this course focuses on the philosophy through discussion of some of the most involved in attempting to define the self in purely development of study skills such as essay writing and interesting questions in each field. factual terms. As such, we will also consider the note taking. qualitative aspect of experience as well as the social setting of language, culture and context. Existentialism The New Testament: An Introduction Steven Martz BA MTh PhD David G. Robertson BA (Hons) MSc PhD {ILA} Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 8.20pm
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3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £105/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc
This course will examine key features of existentialist What is the New Testament? What’s in it, and how philosophy - despair, alienation, religion, identity, did it become the canon of scripture we see today? freedom, and selfhood – through a chronological This course seeks to answer these questions through study of central thinkers in the field. Students will a comparative look at its texts in their historical and gain an appreciation and understanding of how literary context, identifying its major themes and the existentialist thought developed, the problems to which problems it poses for scholars. it is responding, and the ability to critically reflect on how existentialism remains relevant to contemporary concerns. 78 Short Courses | Philosophy and Religion | September 2015 – June 2016
Moral Philosophy Medieval Philosophy Cities of God: John Gordon BA PhD {ILA} Stephen Watt MA (Hons) PhD {ILA} Religion and Political Thought Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Steven Martz BA MTh PhD
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc A historical survey of the key moral thinkers and their The course will provide an introduction to medieval theories, from the ancient Greeks to the present day. philosophy through an examination of the ideas This course will examine the development of political Extracts from classic texts will be studied, and placed of a selection of key figures and a number of key philosophy in the western tradition by paying particular in their historical and philosophical contexts. themes, such as: the tension between Platonism attention to the role that ‘God’ and religion have and Aristotelianism, the relationship of religion played in that evolution. We shall focus on notions and philosophy, and the question of realism in of individual rights, debates surrounding how best metaphysics. to organise society and the nature of government, the perennial tension between church and state, and questions relating to the concept of human nature. Introduction to Christian Theology Contemporary Philosophy Stephen Watt MA (Hons) PhD {ILA} John Gordon BA PhD Thinking Through Film Tuesdays from 12 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm Thursdays from 14 January 11.10am – 1.00pm James Mooney MA (Hons) Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm
2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ The course is intended to provide an introduction This course will discuss ten influential philosophy texts Holyrood Campus £70 conc to Christian theology through an examination of the published since 2000, covering topics ranging from ideas of a selection of key figures and a number ethics and free will to critical thinking, aesthetics and An introduction to philosophy through the medium of key themes. During the classes, students will be politics. We shall discover how today’s philosophers of film. Using a diverse range of films, we will explore introduced to an overview of the theologians and address traditional problems in philosophy. some of the most interesting issues in philosophy. themes, as well as being encouraged to engage in In doing so, we will learn what film can contribute to detail with specific primary sources in translation. philosophy, and how philosophy can contribute to our enjoyment and understanding of film. September 2015 – June 2016 | Philosophy and Religion | Short Courses 79
20th Century British Philosophers Alternative Religions An Introduction to Atheism and Non-Religion Stephen Watt MA (Hons) PhD {ILA} David G. Robertson BA (Hons) MSc PhD Christopher Cotter MA (Hons) MSc Tuesdays from 12 April 11.10am – 1.00pm Wednesdays from 13 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 18 May 6.30pm – 8.20pm
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3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 3 5 Paterson’s Land, 0 £53/ 3 5 Paterson’s Land, 0 £53/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £35 conc Holyrood Campus £35 conc
British philosophy in the 20th century presents a rich This course presents a overview of alternative forms From Ancient Greek ‘atheoi,’ to contemporary ‘New variety of approaches to central questions such as of religion since the Victorian period. We consider the Atheists’ and religious ‘nones’, being ‘non-religious’ the nature of ethics, how to run society, and what growth of New Age, Scientology, Wicca and other has a complex cultural, social, and intellectual history. knowledge is and how we can achieve it. Learn about traditions in their historical and sociological context, This course will historically contextualise a variety of philosophy through studying the lives and thoughts of and outline the various strategies they have used to positions in interaction with established academic key figures in its development. seek legitimacy. How are new traditions created, and theories of religion, providing an interdisciplinary what can they tell us about ‘World Religions’? and cutting-edge introduction to a controversial phenomenon. Applied Ethics Reason and Passion John Gordon BA PhD {ILA} Steven Martz BA MTh PhD Tuesdays from 12 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 14 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm
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3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc Send us your Short Course stories so Are we controlled by reason? Does passion dictate A study of a range of moral issues of topical concern we can celebrate you and your work. our motives and actions? What is the relation between – from terrorism to world poverty. We will examine the two – complimentary aspects of the self or warring Email: [email protected] current philosophical thinking on these issues, and its faculties? This course examines these questions implication for public policy choices. and others through engagement with the Western philosophical tradition. Through close readings To see an overview of our of primary texts we will discuss the ways in which Short Courses programme conceptions of reason and passion have shaped please go to page 92 descriptions of morality, freedom, identity and selfhood in the past and present. 80 Short Courses | Psychology and Language Sciences | September 2015 – June 2016
PSYCHOLOGY AND An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology Linguistics: Michael Craig BSc MRes {ILA} The Science of Language {ILA} LANGUAGE SCIENCES Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Tuesdays from 29 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Course Organiser: James Mooney MA (Hons) 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ [email protected] 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc
Cognitive psychology is the scientific investigation of Linguistics, the scientific study of the human human thought and the processes that govern it. This language faculty, is a hugely broad topic, with strong course will offer an introduction to the main areas of connections to psychology, philosophy, and cognitive the field including sensation and perception, attention, science. This course will present an overview of memory, language, and problem-solving. This class linguistic analysis, including the study of human will use practical examples and specific case studies. speech sounds and how they interact, the structure of words, phrases and sentences, and the study of word and sentence meaning.
Introduction to Clinical Psychology
Kenneth Dobson CPsychol BA MBA BSc MSc {ILA} Tuesdays from 29 September 9.00am – 10.50am
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1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc
What do clinical psychologists do and what can their research tell us about the nature of the psychological concerns that people face? This course looks to answer these questions and examines the psychotherapeutic approaches clinical psychologists employ in helping people with differing psychological and emotional problems. September 2015 – June 2016 | Psychology and Language Sciences | Short Courses 81
Criminal Psychology Psychology: An Introduction Psychology of Language {ILA} Jason Frowley MA PhD Jason Frowley MA PhD {ILA} Thursdays from 1 October 11.10am – 1.00pm Wednesdays from 30 September 6.10pm – 8.00pm Wednesdays from 30 September 2.10pm – 4.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Wednesdays from 13 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm Wednesdays from 13 January 6.10pm – 8.00pm 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Holyrood Campus £81 conc
An examination of the psychological and 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc neurobiological factors that enable humans to learn, use, and understand language. We will examine 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc language development and acquisition, language comprehension and production, and language and This course will model itself on the criminal process, Why do people behave as they do? How can we study cognition. Throughout, these topics will be illuminated from the formation of ‘criminals’ and ‘criminal minds’, the mind? Explore the influences of the unconscious, through reference to their representation in the brain, through issues of who takes responsibility for a crime, our biological make-up, social groups, rewards and various pathologies that impede normal language eyewitnessing, police investigation, jury decision- punishments – and how all of these influences interact. function, and comparative structures in other animals. making, and punishment. It will also address the Discover how psychologists have investigated topics important issue of how criminologists have gone about as diverse as child development, human memory, and creating their models of criminality, and how and why criminal behaviour. these models have changed over time. 82 Short Courses | Psychology and Language Sciences | September 2015 – June 2016
Memory Sociolinguistics: The Science of Attraction Language and Society {ILA} Michael Craig BSc MRes {ILA} Mairi Macleod BSc (Hons) MSc PhD Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 13 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee
2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 3 5 Paterson’s Land, 0 £53/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £35 conc This course offers an introduction to the study of the An insight into the operation of human memory with What influences who we are attracted to? Scientists relationship between language and society. It will cover practical exercises, demonstrations, and case studies. have uncovered ways in which faces, voices, topics such as: language variation according to class, Topics covered include short and long-term memory behaviour, and even odour can affect who we ethnicity, and gender; language interaction and issues and learning, every day and applied issues of memory, find attractive. This short course aims to offer an of identity and ideology; multilingualism, language memory across the lifespan, retrieval and forgetting introduction to this field. It will examine contemporary policy and linguistic rights. from memory, memory disorders, and improving findings in the science of attraction and will provide an memory. insight into current scientific debates. History of English: From its Origins to the Present Day {ILA} Educational Psychology Tuesdays from 12 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Developmental Psychology
Colin Smith BSc MEd PhD {ILA} Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Niki Power MA MSc PhD Cpsychol Tuesdays from 12 January 11.10am – 1.00pm Thursdays from 14 April 9.00am – 10.50am 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Holyrood Campus £81 conc Session Wks Venue Credits Fee
2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ This course will be an overview of the history of the 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc English language from its Indo-European past until the Holyrood Campus £70 conc present day with its many global varieties. The course What makes us educable? What factors are involved in This course will offer an insight into how and why will analyse both the external historical and cultural education? What are the barriers - personal and social children think, feel and behave in the way they do. factors that affected the evolution of English, as well as – to attainment? What are the forms and purposes You will learn about physical, perceptual and cognitive language-internal systemic changes in its phonology, of assessment? These are some of the questions development of children from conception through morphology, syntax and lexicon. Students will be addressed in this introductory course about the theory to adolescence and will examine whether nature or introduced to concepts and methods from linguistics, and practice of psychology in education. nurture is responsible for how children develop. historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. September 2015 – June 2016 | Psychology and Language Sciences | Short Courses 83
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SCIENCE AND Cracking the Genetic Code: Human Exploring the Solar System Genetics in the 21st Century Alastair Bruce MSc NATURE Frances Parry PhD Tuesdays from 29 September 7.00pm – 8.30pm Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Course Organiser: Martine Pierquin MA MSc DPSI Session Wks Venue Credits Fee [email protected] 1 10 The Royal 0 £80/ 1 5 Paterson’s Land, 0 £53/ Observatory, £54 conc Holyrood Campus £35 conc Blackford Hill This lecture-based course covers areas in astronomy Assuming no prior knowledge of genetics, we will relating to the solar system and the bodies within it. consider the benefits and limitations of genetic tests Topics range from initial formation of the solar system, currently available and those just over the horizon. latest information on the planets and minor bodies On the way we will provide you with the language and such as moons, asteroids and comets; solar system understanding to make some sense of the debates exploration, ground-based observations and human/ over these issues. robotic spaceflight; an introduction to astrobiology.
Scotland’s Volcanoes Earth Science: An Introduction (Course 1) Angus D Miller BSc PhD Fiona McGibbon BSc PGCert Tuesdays from 29 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 1 October 11.10am – 1.00pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee
1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 1 6 Paterson’s Land, 0 £63/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £42 conc Geology is a broad subject covering the spectrum of Volcanoes are a fascination for people, and past scale, from the whole planet down to a grain of sand volcanic eruptions have had a significant role in and even into the atomic in the ages of rocks and shaping Scotland’s landscape, creating for example To see an overview of our minerals. This course takes us from Earth’s cosmic the rocks of Glencoe and Skye. By exploring modern neighbourhood to the planet’s interior and back Short Courses programme eruptions around the world we can develop an up on to its surface via plate tectonics, volcanism, please go to page 92 understanding of the volcanic activity in Scotland’s metamorphism and sedimentary processes to develop geological past. an understanding of how the Earth works. September 2015 – June 2016 | Science and Nature | Short Courses 85
The Development of Medical Botany from Marine Biology and Ecology The Distant Universe Ancient Greece to the Renaissance Iain Reid BSc PhD Derek McLeod MPhys Gavin Hardy BSc MSc MLitt PhD Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Tuesdays from 12 January 7.00pm – 8.30pm
Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 2 10 The Royal 0 £80/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Observatory, £54 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc Blackford Hill Starting on the shoreline and ending up in the open This lecture-based course covers astronomy topics From the botanical literature of Ancient Greece, ocean, come and learn about the marine environment. relating to the most massive and most distant objects through the wonderful world of illuminated manuscript Study a variety of habitats including coral reefs and in the Universe. A team of astronomers will teach you herbals, to the development of botanic (or ‘physic’) deep sea vents as well as the biology of fish and other about galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and the gardens during the Renaissance, the development of a sea creatures. Universe itself, as well as the technology which makes knowledge of the use of plants for medical purposes is our understanding possible. a study of great fascination and interest.
The Local Universe Geology of Scotland’s Hills Earth Science: An Introduction (Course 2) David Nisbet MPhys BSc Angus D Miller BSc PhD Fiona McGibbon BSc PGCert Thursdays from 1 October 7.00pm – 8.30pm Tuesdays from 12 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 14 January 11.10am – 1.00pm
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1 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £80/ 2 6 Paterson’s Land, 0 £63/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £54 conc Holyrood Campus £42 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc
This lecture-based course covers astronomy topics Scotland is renowned for its beautiful and varied What do fossils, rocks, faults and folds tell us about relating to the celestial objects we see within our mountain scenery. Look beneath the surface to the Earth in the past? This follow-on course continues own galaxy. A team of astronomers will teach you discover a long and complex geological history that to provide a gentle introduction to Earth science and about planets, stars and the Milky Way, as well as the has produced a wide range of rock types in different looks at geological time and Earth’s history and future. technology which makes our understanding possible. locations. From the Northwest Highlands to the Course includes a Saturday visit to the National A basic understanding of mathematical concepts at Southern Uplands, we’ll explore Scotland’s hills and Museum of Scotland. Standard Grade, GCSE, O level or equivalent would be discover the geological stories that make them unique. useful but this is not an essential requirement. Please note there will be no class on Tuesday 16 February. 86 Short Courses | Science and Nature | September 2015 – June 2016
Geology of Scotland’s Coast Quarks to Quasars – Forensic Science and Classic Crime Fiction Angus D Miller BSc PhD A Beginner’s Guide to Physics Laura Sinfield HND BA MSc Thursdays from 14 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm Edmund J M Farrow BSc (Hons) Wednesdays from 13 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Mondays from 11 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 2 6 Paterson’s Land, 0 £63/ 3 5 Paterson’s Land, 0 £53/ Holyrood Campus £42 conc 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £35 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc Scotland has an amazing coastline of cliffs and This course uses three classic British crime authors to beaches, firths and sea lochs, headlands and islands. Explore the wonders of modern physics, from the explore how forensic fiction of the past compares with This coastline reflects Scotland’s geological history, stupendously big to the mind-blowingly small. Learn forensic fact; it will look at the development of British which has resulted in a varied range of rock types about chaos, the universe, Einstein and the private forensic medicine and forensic science, through the formed at different times. We’ll explore the coast from lives of atoms without any complicated maths. works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers Shetland to southwest Scotland, including several and Agatha Christie. case studies from all parts of the country. Please note there will be no class on Thursday 18 February. Genetics and Behaviour The Earth in the Anthropocene The Temple of Flora: Frances Parry PhD Nikolaos Kourampas BSc PhD Exploring the Biology of Plants Tuesdays from 12 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Wednesdays from 13 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm Gavin Hardy BSc MSc MLitt PhD Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee 3 5 Paterson’s Land, 0 £53/ 3 6 Paterson’s Land, 0 £63/ Holyrood Campus £35 conc Holyrood Campus £42 conc
2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Nature and nurture work in concert to create the Looking at global environmental change over the Holyrood Campus £70 conc plethora of diversity we see in life. This course will last 12,000 years and its acceleration over the later Without plants no life could exist on Earth. Why is this, look at how genes in concert with the environment part of the 20th century, this course discusses the and what is are these important organisms? Come and learned experience can influence our behaviour, Anthropocene, the geological epoch we live in, and learn about the wonderful world of plants - what choices, interactions and reactions in the day to day and explores links between human societies and they are, how they function, where they live, and much, world. other components of the earth system (geomorphic much more! processes, ecosystems etc.). September 2015 – June 2016 | Science and Nature | Short Courses 87
Exploring Rocks in the Field: Igneous Rocks of Arthur’s Seat Fiona McGibbon BSc PGCert Thursdays from 14 April 11.10am – 1.00pm
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This course offers an opportunity to explore igneous rocks on Arthur’s Seat, learning to decipher the clues Send us your Short Course stories so that hint at dramatic past events. Sessions are largely we can celebrate you and your work. classroom based with lectures and practical activity. Included is a visit to Arthur’s Seat, a spectacular Email: [email protected] natural laboratory in the heart of Edinburgh. I have been taught by some exceptional tutors “ who have really brought the subjects to life and have been interesting to spend time with. 88 Short Courses | Society and Politics | September 2015 – June 2016
SOCIETY AND Understanding Social Policy Understanding International Relations Richard Brodie MA (Hons) MSc {ILA} Richard Brodie MA (Hons) MSc {ILA} POLITICS Mondays from 28 September 2.10pm – 4.00pm Mondays from 28 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Course Organiser: James Mooney MA (Hons) [email protected] 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc
Social policies impinge on many aspects of our lives. This course is an introduction to the major principles, This course aims to show how contemporary social concepts, actors, and theories of the international policy issues are constructed and contested. We will system and their application to current issues in world consider current theoretical debates on needs, rights, affairs. The course is divided into two parts. Part one and responsibilities and will examine different policies examines a number of theoretical approaches drawn and perspectives on areas including poverty, child from different intellectual traditions in the discipline, abuse, criminal justice and unemployment. including classical and contemporary realism, liberalism, and radical approaches to international relations, as well as contemporary debates on power and globalisation. The second part discusses a number of current policy issues such as terrorism and security, human rights, governance and global institutions, the environment and poverty and development. September 2015 – June 2016 | Society and Politics | Short Courses 89
Scottish Politics International Human Rights Law Understanding Africa Coree Brown BA MA MScR Jennifer Ang BA JD Isabella Soi PhD {ILA} Wednesdays from 30 September 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 1 October 6.30pm – 8.20pm Mondays from 11 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm
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Join us as we attempt to unravel some of the This course will provide an introduction to international This course will examine the fundamental issues complexities and intrigues of politics in Scotland. human rights law and how human rights are protected and problems faced by Africa from a socio- This course aims to contextualise modern Scottish and enforced. We will start with a look at the history political perspective. We will consider: the history politics by drawing lessons from recent political and philosophy that led to the development of and institutions of pre-independent Africa; the history, comparative and theoretical perspectives, international human rights treaties in the 20th century, characteristics of different African states; the post-Cold and decision-making processes. It will cover the 2014 and also provide a brief introduction to the institutions War era and crisis of the 1990s; and contemporary referendum on Scottish Independence and consider involved in the development and enforcement of issues such as the collapse of states, natural the SNP’s role at Westminster in the wake of the 2015 human rights internationally. Students will then explore resources, and globalisation. UK elections. a range of specific rights in greater detail, through the use of case studies, discussion and debate. Introducing Social Science (Credit Plus) An Introduction to Political Theory Brian McGrail MA PhD {ILA} Richard Brodie MA (Hons) MSc {ILA} Thursdays from 1 October 5.30pm – 8.20pm Mondays from 11 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm
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1 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £165/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ Holyrood Campus £110 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc
Develop the skills to read social science texts, apply The course aims to explore some of the central key concepts, and interpret and use social science concepts analysed by both classical and statistics. This course provides an ideal starting point contemporary political thinkers (e.g. liberty, democracy, for your study of sociology, social policy, politics, or equality etc.) as well as more recent developments economics. Learn how to study for credit on a course in political theory (e.g. international justice and the with study and essay writing skills built in. politics of difference). 90 Short Courses | Society and Politics | September 2015 – June 2016
An Introduction to Criminological Thought The Welfare State in Global Perspective Politics and Literature Nick Currie BA (Hons) MA MSc Richard Brodie MA (Hons) MSc {ILA} Professor Stephen Ingle Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 14 January 2.10pm – 4.00pm Tuesdays from 12 April 2.10pm – 4.00pm
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2 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £70 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc
What is crime? How has our understanding of ‘the This course aims to provide a comparative This course will examine – through the use of key criminal’ changed over time? Why are some activities understanding of welfare states across the world. texts – the relationship of literature to politics. In doing regarded as criminal and others not? This course will Different models of welfare will be examined and so, it will provide an awareness of the breadth of explore the various ways in which crime and the criminal students will be introduced to a range of welfare understanding that the study of literature can bring have been conceptualised, from early ‘scientific’ notions policies from the USA, Europe, Australasia and to political analysis and will allow students to enjoy of individual and social abnormality and pathology to countries across the OECD. We will also consider and discuss literature from a more informed political current attempts to regulate and control what is often current challenges to welfare and how different states viewpoint. regarded as merely rational opportunism. are attempting to address these.
Economics: An Introduction Political Economy and the World of Work Dealing with Statistical Data Douglas Marchbanks BA MEd {ILA} Brian McGrail MA PhD {ILA} Bing Wu Berberich BA MA MBA Wednesdays from 13 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Thursdays from 14 January 6.30pm – 8.20pm Tuesdays from 12 April 6.10pm – 8.20pm
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2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 2 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ 3 8 Paterson’s Land, 0 £99/ Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £81 conc Holyrood Campus £67 conc
Learn about basic micro-economics in a way that Is free trade ever free? Are wages ever fair? Does This course will provide an introduction to interpreting uncovers the connection between individual action technology replace, deskill, or simply displace labour and understanding data, data types and methods for and wider changes. Learn to predict the effects of to other activities? This course will guide you through summarising and presenting data. It will use software others’ decisions and maximise your own influence. An two infamous works in the history of ‘classical’ political rather than asking students to perform manual introduction to the way the market operates and to the economy, namely, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and calculations, allowing the focus to be on meaning, factors involved in the creation of wealth. Karl Marx’s Capital. Understand what these thinkers interpretation and understanding, rather than algebra really had to say on such questions, and why their and mathematics. works remain relevant to our times. September 2015 – June 2016 | Society and Politics | Short Courses 91
Introducing Sociology (Credit Plus) Contemporary Social Theory Brian McGrail MA PhD {ILA} Nick Currie BA (Hons) MA MSc Wednesdays from 13 April 2.10pm – 5.00pm Thursdays from 14 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm
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3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £165/ 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 0 £105/ Holyrood Campus £110 conc Holyrood Campus £70 conc
Sociology looks behind surface appearances to help This course will provide an introduction to work of five us understand ourselves and the societies we live in, contemporary social theorists (Foucault, Agamben, how we both shape and are shaped by society. We will Negri, Rancière and Žižek). It will also examine what look at the many social influences on our identity and these theorists can contribute to some of the key social question taken for granted explanations of inequality, and political issues of our time, for example: What is the family, crime, and educational achievement. Learn the relationship between law and violence? What is to study for credit on a course with study and essay meant by the idea of ‘security’? How democratic is the writing skills built in. state? What are the possibilities of social and political change today? An Introduction to the European Union Richard Brodie MA (Hons) MSc {ILA} Thursdays from 14 April 6.30pm – 8.20pm
Session Wks Venue Credits Fee Send us your Short Course stories so 3 10 Paterson’s Land, 10 £121/ we can celebrate you and your work. Holyrood Campus £81 conc
The EU now plays a central role in all our lives but Email: [email protected] is little understood. This course examines this role, exploring the controversies and myths that surround this important political entity. It introduces the workings To see an overview of our of the EU, by analysing its history, institutions and Short Courses programme policies. Debate the role of the EU now and in the please go to page 92 future. A highly topical course. 92 Short Courses | Session 1 – Various Venues | September – December 2015
Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays 9:00 - Introduction to Clinical Psychology pg 80 10:00 - Booker Prize Novels 6 pg 63 10:50 11:50 10:30 - Scotland: From the Making of the Kingdom to 10:10 - Learning to Philosophise (Credit Plus) pg 77 12:30 Renaissance Monarchy pg 54 1:00 11:10 - ‘Drawing-Room Gods’: Classical Tradition and 11:10 - Anglo-Saxon Illuminated Manuscripts pg 26 11:10 - The Art of 15th Century Italy pg 27 1:00 1:00 1:00 Historical Genre Painting in Victorian Britain pg 26 Fiction Workshop pg 34 Morning Twenty Artists of the 20th Century pg 26 Culture and Society in the Middle Ages pg 55 Scotland’s Railways: A History and Geography pg 54 The Blues pg 70 Shakespeare’s Comedies pg 62 Philosophy of Art pg 76 1:00 - Discovering French Painting at the 1:00 - 2:00 Masterpieces of Modern Art pg 27 2:00 National Galleries of Scotland I pg 27 2:10 - Writing for Publication: Freelance Journalism pg 48 2:10 - The Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age pg 4 2:10 - 4:00 World Textiles pg 27 4:00 4:00 The Republic of Venice: Scottish Windows, Eastern Skies Adaptation for Film pg 50 Myth and Reality c.1400 –1650 pg 54 The Scots and Asia, 1750 – 1950 pg 55 20th Century European Drama pg 64 Afternoon The Modern History Play pg 62 Witchcraft and Belief in Scotland, 1563 –1736 pg 55 Psychology: An Introduction pg 81 Favourite Composers I pg 70 Counting the Times: Contemporary British Short Fiction pg 63 Understanding Social Policy pg 88 Arguing About Religion pg 76 5:30 - How Art Works (Credit Plus) pg 26 5:30 - Scottish Handwriting 1: 1500 –1700 pg 55 6:10 - 8:00 Criminal Psychology pg 81 8:20 7:00 5:30 - Introducing Literature 1 (Credit Plus) pg 63 8:20 6:30 - Archaeology of Scotland: 6:30 - Pre-Raphaelites Reviewed pg 27 6:30 - 8:20 The Vikings of the North Atlantic pg 4 8:20 8:20 Stone and Bronze, the Early Prehistory pg 4 Write that Story 1 pg 34 Find Your Voice 1 pg 34 Improve your Fiction pg 34 Classical Hollywood: Cliché and Innovation pg 49 Short Story Writing pg 34 Magnificent Obsessions: A Century of Film Melodrama pg 48 Contemporary Documentary Film pg 49 Screenwriting 1: Modern British Poetry pg 63 Tsars, Tyrants and Tolstoi: Tales of Old Russia pg 56 An Introduction to Writing for Film and Television pg 49 Life Coaching pg 74 Confidence in Public Speaking pg 74 The Art of Modern US Television pg 49 The World’s Religions: A Comparative Introduction pg 76 Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment pg 76 From Khartoum to Sarajevo: An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology pg 80 Concepts of The Self pg 77 Britain and the British Empire from 1870 to 1914 pg 55 Evening Cracking the Genetic Code: Linguistics: The Science of Language pg 80 Divine Decadence: Dark Fantasy in 19th Century Fiction pg 64 Human Genetics in the 21st Century pg 84 Scotland’s Volcanoes pg 84 Understanding International Relations pg 88 300 Years of Piano Music pg 71 Foundations of Counselling and Psychotherapy 1 pg 74 Existentialism pg 77 Scottish Politics pg 89 6:30 - Empires: The Achaemenid 6:30 - Arts and Architecture in Europe I: 8:30 (6th Century BCE) to the British pg 54 8:30 From Ancient Greece to the Middle Ages pg 27 6:30 - French Cinema pg 48 7:00 - Exploring the Solar System pg 84 9:20 8:30 September – December 2015 | Various Venues – Session 1 | Short Courses 93
Thursdays Fridays One Day Courses 10:30 - Victorian Edinburgh pg 55 10:00 - Resistance and Radicalism: Scotland, 1700 –1900 pg 56 Friday 25 September 12:30 12:00 10:00 - Jazz in Scotland pg 70 11:10 - Larkin’ Around – The Poetry of Philip Larkin pg 64 11:10 - The Rise of the Anti-Hero pg 64 4:00 1:00 1:00 Psychology of Language pg 81 Friday 9 October Earth Science: An Introduction (Course 1) pg 84 10:00 - Introduction to Scottish Genealogy pg 56 4:00 Morning Saturday 24 October 10:30 - Victorian Photography pg 28 4:30
Saturday 31 October 1:00 - Discovering the National Collections 1 pg 28 10:30 - SCO Explore: Wagner pg 71 2:00 4:30 Saturday 7 November 2:10 - Introduction to Film Studies pg 50 2:10 - Find Your Voice 1 pg 35 4:00 4:00 10:00 - ‘The Tounis College’: Russian Literature: An Introduction pg 65 Gunpowder, Treason and Plot: 4:00 The Reign of James VI and I pg 57 The University of Edinburgh, 1583 – 2013 pg 56 *Practical Musicianship pg 70 Afternoon A Scottish Songbook pg 71 *Please note: This class begins on 18 Sept Friday 13 November Tchaikovsky in the Opera Theatre pg 71 10:00 - A Day of Scottish Heraldry pg 57 4:00 Friday 27 November 5:30 - Discovering the National Collections 1 pg 28 6:30 10:00 - Singing Burns! pg 72 5:30 - Introducing Social Science (Credit Plus) pg 89 4:00 8:20 6:30 - Poetry in Practice pg 35 8:20 Ripping Scripts 1 pg 35 The Contemporary American Novel pg 64 Popular Music 1950 – 2000: Ten landmark albums pg 71 An Introduction to Philosophy pg 77
Evening The New Testament: An Introduction pg 77 The Development of Medical Botany from Ancient Greece to the Renaissance pg 85 International Human Rights Law pg 89
7:00 - The Local Universe pg 85 8:30
6:30 - New Iranian Cinema pg 50 9:20 The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock pg 50 94 Short Courses | Session 2 – Various Venues | January – March 2016
Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays 10:30 - Scotland: From Reformation to Revolution, 1560 –1690 pg 58 10:00 - The Great Detectives 6 pg 66 12:30 11:50
11:10 - The Art of Rembrandt and Vermeer pg 28 11:10 - Personalities and Politics at the Court of the Caesars pg 58 11:10 - Scottish Art in the Age of Change 1945 – 2000 pg 29 1:00 1:00 1:00 The Scottish Wars of Independence, 1296 –1357: The Medieval Mind pg 58 Screenwriting 1: An Introduction to Writing for The Survival of the Kingdom pg 57 More of Larkin’s Jazz pg 72 Film and Television pg 49
Morning ‘Ye Jacobites by Name’: Educational Psychology pg 82 The History and Songs of the Jacobite Risings pg 60 D H Lawrence and E M Forster pg 65
2:10 - Favourite Composers II pg 72 2:10 - The Last Hunters and First Farmers of Europe pg 4 2:10 - 4:00 A History of Modern Fashion pg 29 4:00 4:00 Understanding Africa pg 89 Write that Story 1 pg 34 Machiavelli and Politics, Culture and Society From Peel to Palace: The History, Form and in Renaissance Italy pg 59 Function of Castles in Scotland pg 58 European Fiction in Translation pg 66 Small Flat Items: The Modern Scottish Short Story pg 65 Opera Afternoons pg 72
Afternoon Introduction to Christian Theology pg 78 Criminal Psychology pg 81
2:10 - Film Studies (Credit Plus) pg 50 2:10 - Cinemas and the Movies: An Exploration of the 5:00 5:00 Introducing Scottish Social History (Credit Plus) pg 57 History of Film Exhibition pg 51 6:00 - Saints’ Cults in Medieval Europe, 300 –1300 pg 57 5:30 - Scottish Handwriting 2: 1500 –1700 pg 58 6:10 - 8:00 Psychology: An Introduction pg 81 7:50 7:00 5:30 - Introducing Literature 2 (Credit Plus) pg 66 8:20 6:30 - Archaeology of Scotland: 6:30 - Arts and Architecture in Europe II: 6:30 - 8:20 Rock Art in Context pg 5 8:20 8:20 Iron Age, the Romans and Early Historic Period pg 4 The Renaissance to the Reformation pg 28 Experimental Writing pg 36 Write a Short Play pg 35 Cross-Currents: French and British Painting 1860 –1914 pg 28 Find Your Voice 2 pg 36 Writing Children’s Fiction pg 35 Writing Creative Non-Fiction pg 35 New Hollywood pg 51 Animated Cinema pg 50 Write that Story 2 pg 36 Screenwriting 2: Script Development pg 52 Modernist Fiction 2 pg 65 The Wars of the Roses: Warfare, Politics and A History of Edinburgh from Earliest Times to 1914 pg 59 Leadership Skills pg 74 Society in Late Medieval England pg 59 Angels and Androgynes – Fantastical Beings in Moral Philosophy pg 78 Positive Psychology pg 75 Modern Fiction pg 66 Evening Memory pg 82 Medieval Philosophy pg 78 Vampire Fiction pg 67 Marine Biology and Ecology pg 85 Sociolinguistics: Language and Society pg 82 Ten Centuries of Classical Music pg 72 An Introduction to Political Theory pg 89 Geology of Scotland’s Hills pg 85 Foundations of Counselling and Psychotherapy 2 pg 75 An Introduction to Criminological Thought pg 90 Economics: An Introduction pg 90 6:30 - Italian Cinema pg 51 6:30 - Introduction to Ethnographic Film pg 51 9:20 9:20 Unsung Heroes of European Cinema pg 51 7:00 - The Distant Universe pg 85 8:30 January – March 2016 | Various Venues – Session 2 | Short Courses 95
Thursdays Fridays One Day Courses 9:45 - Learning Afresh pg 75 10:30 - Colour, Pattern and Texture at the National Saturday 20 February 1:00 12:30 Museum of Scotland pg 30 10:00 - The Company that Broke a Nation: 11:10 - Masters of the High Renaissance: 11:10 - Shakespeare and the Tragedy of Love pg 67 4:00 Scotland and the Darien Scheme pg 60 1:00 1:00 Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael pg 29 Friday 26 February From Commodus to Constantine: Collapse, Chaos and 10:00 - Bring Your Own Archive pg 30 Recovery in the Third-Century Roman Empire pg 59 4:00
Morning Robert Burns: A Celebration pg 67 Contemporary Philosophy pg 78 Earth Science: An Introduction (Course 2) pg 85 1:00 - Discovering the National Collections 2 pg 29 1:15 - Discovering the National Collections: 2:00 2:15 Jewellery from Antiquity to Present Day pg 30
2:10 - World War II in North West Europe: 2:10 - Find Your Voice 2 pg 36 4:00 4:00 D-Day and the Battle of Normandy pg 59 20th Century Russian Literature:
Afternoon Geology of Scotland’s Coast pg 86 An Introduction pg 68 The Welfare State in Global Perspective pg 90 Practical Musicianship 2 pg 72
5:30 - Discovering the National Collections 2 pg 29 6:30 6:30 - Archaeology of the Near East pg 5 8:20 Early 20th Century Avant-garde in Cinema and Other Visual Arts pg 29 Poetry in Practice pg 35 Ripping Scripts 2 pg 36 Starting to Write 1 pg 36 Cinema and Extremity pg 52 African-American History: From Slavery to the White House pg 60 Dickens and Balzac – Vive la Différence! pg 67
Evening Music and Politics pg 73 Cities of God: Religion and Political Thought pg 78 Thinking Through Film pg 78 Political Economy and the World of Work pg 90
6:30 - Director in Focus: Jean Renoir pg 52 9:20 The Temple of Flora: Exploring the Biology of Plants pg 86 96 Short Courses | Session 3 – Various Venues | April – June 2016
Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays 10:00 - The Unreliable Narrator 2 pg 68 11:50
10:10 - Classics (Credit Plus) pg 60 1:00 11:10 - Screenwriting 2: Script Development pg 52 11:10 - Icons of Jazz pg 73 11:10 - A History of Scottish Art pg 31 1:00 1:00 1:00
Morning 20th Century British Philosophers pg 79 The Life and Music of Claude Debussy pg 73
2:10 - Writing for Publication: Freelance Journalism pg 48 2:10 - Write that Story 2 pg 36 2:10 - 4:00 Japanese Art, Design and Visual Culture pg 31 4:00 4:00 Food and Society in Early Modern Europe pg 60 Poetry in Practice pg 35 Fearsome Triviality: Ten Novellas pg 68 Literature of the 1920s pg 68 Politics and Literature pg 90 Alexander Technique: Helping You Help Yourself pg 75 Afternoon 2:10 - 5:00 Introducing Sociology (Credit Plus) pg 91
6:30 - Beyond the Empire: The Romans in Scotland pg 5 6:10 - Dealing with Statistical Data pg 90 6:30 - 8:20 Neanderthals and Archaeology: 8:20 8:20 Shut Up & Write! pg 36 New Research Developments pg 5 6:30 - Etruscan Art and Archaeology pg 5 Modernism and The Cinema pg 53 Writing Young Adult Fiction pg 37 8:20 Arts and Architecture in Europe III: Cinema on the Verge – Screenwriting 3: From Page to Screen pg 53 The Early Modern to the Contemporary pg 30 The Films of Pedro Almodovar pg 52 A Land Fit for Heroes? Britain and the British Empire Victorian Painting: A Panorama pg 31 Quarks to Quasars – A Beginner’s Guide to Physics pg 86 Between the Two World Wars pg 61 Get Ready to Write Your First Novel pg 37 Instruments of the Orchestra pg 73 How Do They Do That? Foundations of Counselling and Psychotherapy 3 pg 75 Understanding Film Techniques pg 52 Alternative Religions pg 79 Applied Ethics pg 79 An Introduction to Atheism and Non-Religion pg 79 History of English: The Science of Attraction pg 82 From its Origins to the Present Day pg 82 Forensic Science and Classic Crime Fiction pg 86
Evening Genetics and Behaviour pg 86 The Earth in the Anthropocene pg 86
6:30 - Talking Pictures pg 52 9:20 April – June 2016 | Various Venues – Session 3 | Short Courses 97
Thursdays Fridays One Day Courses 9:00 - Developmental Psychology pg 82 10:10 - The Geomythography of Scotland pg 61 Saturday 23 April 10:50 12:00 10:30 - SCO Explore: Bach pg 73 4:30 10:30 - Understanding Colour pg 32 12:30 Friday 6 May 10:00 - Edinburgh’s Photographers: Hill and Adamson pg 33 5:00 Morning 11:10 - The Art of 16th Century Venice pg 29 11:10 - The Civic Statues of Edinburgh pg 32 1:00 1:00 Great Irish Drama pg 69 Jacobean Drama pg 69 Saturday 21 May Exploring Rocks in the Field: 10:00 - Labour’s Lost Leader: The Tragic Career Igneous Rocks of Arthur’s Seat pg 86 4:00 of James Ramsay MacDonald pg 61 1:00 - Discovering the National Collections 3 pg 31 1:15 - Discovering the National Collections: 2:00 2:15 Sculpture of the World pg 32
2:10 - Starting to Write 2 pg 37 2:10 - Find Your Voice 3 pg 37 4:00 4:00 Scotland’s Long 19th Century, 1815 –1914: War and Peace: A Study of the Great Russian Epic pg 69 Issues, Ideas, Identities pg 61 Afternoon Heroes, Gods and Monsters: An Introduction to the Classics pg 69 Around the World in Song pg 73 5:30 - Discovering the National Collections 3 pg 31 6:30 6:30 - Myths, Monarchs and Monuments of Ancient Egypt pg 5 8:20 Scottish Architecture: From Scara Brae to the Present pg 31 Innovative Fiction pg 37 Ripping Scripts 3 pg 37 Investigative Journalism for Print and Film pg 53 Women in American History: From Pocahontas to the Presidential Election pg 61 Understanding Poetry pg 69
Evening Reason and Passion pg 79 An Introduction to the European Union pg 91 Contemporary Social Theory pg 91
6:30 - Film is Memory: Forgotten Narratives, 9:20 Reminiscence and Personal Archives pg 53 98 Art & Design Courses | Session 1: Monday 28 September – Sunday 6 December 2015 | Assessment Week: Monday 14 – Friday 18 December
Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays Fridays Saturdays Sundays 9:45 - Painting: Landscapes pg 6 Foundation Drawing Creating Images pg 9 Painting the Figure pg 10 Painting with Portfolio *The Sunday Draw 12:30 for Beginners pg 7 Expression pg 13 Preparation: (4 Oct – 1 Nov) Art pg 22 pg 13
Portfolio *Painting: Preparation: Studio Practices Design pg 22 (1 Nov – 6 Dec) pg 13
1:30 - Patterns in Nature: Static pg 6 Foundation Painting for Beginners Contemporary Watercolour pg 9 *The English Modern Romantics *Both 9.45am – 4:15 Introduction to Tapestry pg 42 pg 8 Developing an Revisited (1 Oct – 29 Oct) pg 11 4.15pm Material Spaces, Illustration Project pg 46 *The Surrealists Revisited Fibre Structures pg 42 (5 Nov – 3 Dec) pg 11 *Both 1.30 – 4.30pm Contemporary Art Research: Developing a Project pg 12
Thomson’s Land, Holyrood Campus Thomson’s Land, 6:30 - Painting: Drawing: Developing a Sketchbook pg 9 Beginners Drawing 9:15 Towards Mixed Media pg 7 Language and Expression 1 pg 8 Painting Pictures pg 10 and Painting pg 12 Stitched Textiles 1 pg 42 Fabricating Fashion pg 43
6:30 - Drawing: Head Life Study pg 7 Life Drawing: Introduction to Introduction to Drawing pg 12 9:15 Beginners Darkroom Structure and Form pg 8 Life Drawing pg 10 Digital Photography Photography pg 20 Introduction to Advanced Darkroom Project pg 21 Video for Artists pg 20 Digital Photography pg 20 Photography pg 21 Contemporary Printmaking: Jewellery and Silversmithing: Introduction to Introduction to Traditional Techniques pg 23 Etching pg 38 Printmaking pg 22 Artists Books pg 23 Wood Sculpture pg 24 Introduction to Introduction to Jewellery and Silversmithing: Introduction to Glass Techniques Graphic Design pg 45 Illustration pg 46 Foundation pg 38 (Stained Glass) pg 39 Printed Textiles Design pg 43 Jewellery Techniques pg 39 Developing Children’s Picture Books: Graphic Design pg 46 The Art of Visual Narrative pg 47 Digital Drawing pg 47 Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place Campus Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Assessment Week: Monday 28 March – Friday 1 April | Session 2: Monday 11 January – Sunday 20 March 2016 | Art & Design Courses 99
Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays Fridays Saturdays Sundays 9:45 - Painting: Cityscapes pg 14 Foundation Drawing Images and Ideas pg 16 Painting: Expression and Portfolio *The Sunday 12:30 for Beginners pg 7 Figure Composition pg 17 Abstraction pg 18 Preparation: Draw Art pg 22 (17 Jan – Portfolio 14 Feb) pg 13 Preparation: *Painting: Design pg 22 Studio Practices 1:30 - Patterns in Nature: Foundation Painting for Contemporary Watercolour pg 9 *St Ives Revisited (21 Feb – 4:15 20 Mar) pg Dynamic pg 14 Beginners pg 8 Children’s Picture Books: (14 Jan – 11 Feb) pg 11 13 Developing Tapestry pg 43 The Whole Cloth pg 44 The Art of Visual Narrative pg 47 *The Scottish Colourists Revisited (18 Feb – 17 March) pg 11 *Both 9.45am – 4.15pm *Both 1.30 – 4.30pm Understanding Contemporary Art Practice pg 17 Thomson’s Land, Holyrood Campus Thomson’s Land, 6:30 - Painting: Exploring Drawing: Developing a Sketchbook pg 9 Beginners Drawing 9:15 Mixed Media pg 14 Language and Expression 2 pg 15 Large Scale Painting pg 16 and Painting pg 12 Stitched Textiles 2 pg 44 Fashion: Drawing, Construction and Embellishment pg 44 6:30 - Painting: Portraiture pg 15 Life Drawing with Developing Life Drawing pg 16 Developing Drawing pg 17 9:15 Beginners Darkroom Photography Anatomy pg 15 Advanced Darkroom Digital Photography pg 20 Introduction to Photography pg 21 Project pg 21 Video for Artists pg 20 Digital Photography pg 20 Developing Artists Books pg 24 Intaglio Printmaking: Contemporary Approaches pg 24 Jewellery and Silversmithing: Developing Printmaking Jewellery: Precious Metals Enamelling pg 39 Techniques pg 23 and Sand Casting pg 40 Wood Sculpture pg 24 Developing Introduction to Printed Textiles: Wire Jewellery pg 40 Graphic Design pg 46 Illustration pg 46 Disperse Dyes & Papers pg 45 Introduction to Glass Techniques: (Fused and Stained Glass) pg 40 Introduction to Lauriston Place Campus Lauriston Edinburgh College of Art, Graphic Design pg 45 Developing an Illustration Project pg 46 Digital Animation for Artists pg 47 6:30 - Contemporary Sculpture pg 25 9:15 Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Newhaven Workshop, 100 Art & Design Courses | Session 3: Monday 11 April – Friday 19 June 2016 | Assessment Week: 27 June – 1 July
Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays Fridays Saturdays Sundays 9:45 - Painting Edinburgh pg 18 Foundation Drawing *Large Scale Drawing Painting: Portraiture pg 15 Foundation Painting 12:30 for Beginners pg 7 (13 April – 11 May) pg 18 for Beginners pg 8
*Working with Nature (18 May – 15 June) pg 19
*Both 9.30 – 12.30pm
1:30 - Painting: Foundation Painting for Drawing: Language and Painting on Location pg 19 4:15 Towards Mixed Media pg 7 Beginners pg 8 Expression 1 pg 8 Art and Environment pg 19 Stitched Textiles 1 pg 42 Painting: Studio Practices pg 13 Introduction to Fabricating Fashion pg 43 Illustration pg 46
6:30 - Patterns in Nature: Static pg 6 Painting Pictures pg 10 Introduction to Contemporary Watercolour pg 9 9:15 Life Drawing pg 10 Thomson’s Land, Holyrood Campus Thomson’s Land, 21st Century Tapestry pg 45 Introduction to Creative Rings and Bangles Artists Books pg 23 Children’s Picture Books: (14 April – 12 May) pg 41 The Art of Visual Narrative pg 47 Jewellery: Exploring Materials (19 May – 15 June) pg 41 101
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