AHT4503 Advanced art theory

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Demonstrate awareness of current discourses in a range of disciplines which bear on contemporary artistic production;

2. 2

   Pursue critical arguments with a sense of their ideological relativity;

3. 3

   Assess the bias of an investigative method, considering gender, class and ethnicity;

4. 4

   Understand methodology as a critique of method and be able to practice criticism in your chosen field;

5. 5

   Identify assumptions inherent in the formulation of critical questions and cultivate caution against prejudicing the outcomes of research by foreclosing on the terms of inquiry;

6. 6

   Explain the basis of art works not merely as the outcome of practical constraints but the expression of cultural values.