Art History MLitt
Making Time: performing and thinking temporalities in the creative arts HISTART5122
- Academic Session: 2026-27
- School: School of Culture and Creative Arts
- Credits: 20
- Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
- Typically Offered: Either Semester 1 or Semester 2
- Available to Visiting Students: Yes
- Collaborative Online International Learning: No
- Curriculum For Life: No
Short Description
Time is a common denominator in the creative arts, and most particularly in music, film and television, theatre and in forms of performance art and artist's film. This course offers students interested in any of these disciplines a detailed critical account of how specific exemplary practices (whether artistic or theoretical, and drawn from across the subject specialisms of SCCA) have shaped and delineated different temporalities. The course will demonstrate that although the creative arts have time in common, that time is far from homogenous.
Timetable
10 x Lecture (1hr) / 10 x seminar (1hr), taught weekly
Excluded Courses
None
Co-requisites
None
Assessment
The standard assessments for this course are:
■ Written assignment of 4,000 words - 80%
■ Short class presentation (12-15 minutes) - 20%
If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available:
■ There is no alternative to the written assignment, but a flexible deadline can be offered as reasonable adjustments (students should follow the usual process for extensions)
■ There is no alternative to the presentation (as already recorded), but a flexible deadline can be offered as reasonable adjustments (students should follow the usual process for extensions)
Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.
Course Aims
This course aims to:
■ introduce key critical concepts pertinent to the understanding of time and temporality in creative arts
■ consider detailed case studies which demonstrate how time is performed or theorised
■ consider the historical transformations affecting a contemporary understanding of temporality in relation to culture
Intended Learning Outcomes of Course
By the end of this course students will be able to:
■ use key critical concepts and frameworks in the study of time and temporality
■ advance individual research informed by models of in-depth knowledge of specific case studies of cultural, creative and critical practices pertaining to time
■ conceptualise and critically discuss shifting historical conceptions of time in cultural contexts