AH4192 Images of Empire

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Module coordinator

Dr S O'Rourke

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Module Staff

Dr S O'Rourke

This information is given as indicative. Staff involved in a module may change at short notice depending on availability and circumstances.

Module description

This course examines the visual culture of the French and British empires, from roughly 1720 to 1870. Throughout the course, we consider a diverse range of image-making practices in North America, the Caribbean, India, North Africa, and Australia. Although the module is primarily concerned with art produced within colonial territories, we will also consider how certain aspects of imperial visual culture were displayed and consumed in Western Europe. Rather than offer a survey, the module is organised around a series of themes that will enable us to look across different geographical contexts and time periods. We will consider how power, identity, and politics were constructed as well as contested within these colonial image economies.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST ( PASS AH1001 OR PASS AH1003 ) AND PASS AH2001 AND PASS AH2002

Assessment pattern

100% continuous assessment

Re-assessment

100% Coursework

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

2-hour lecture (x10) and 1h seminar (x10)