University of Edinburgh

This course uses notable historical and contemporary case studies from art schools as the basis for a series of workshops and seminars. During the course students work with peers to collectively investigate what you learn in art school and how you learn it. You are asked to critically reflect on your own experiences in art school in relation to the educational turn in art practice and the contemporary visual culture theories that have supported it. The course culminates in you proposing your own new art education models.

This course introduces the foundational concepts of Western music theory, providing basic skills needed to read and write conventional staff music notation, as well as to analyze musical notation and sounds. The rudiments of music theory describes a set of concepts and skills widely used to communicate about musical ideas. This course covers such fundamentals, from the absolute basics to some more advanced concepts, including material such as pitches and scales, intervals, clefs, rhythm, form, meter, phrases and cadences, and basic harmony. While the concepts and skills that generally define music theory are useful ones to interrogate many forms of music, the area of study as a whole has most commonly been developed to explain compositions of Western European art music. However, students are encouraged to value and draw upon their prior experiences in music listening and performance to contextualize their learning, as they acquire this particular set of skills.

This course helps students to understand how principles of human rights and social justice underpin social work today. The course introduces students to international human rights frameworks and legislation relevant to social work law and policy. There is a focus on law and policy as it affects social work practice in the UK, particularly in Scotland, and students also consider examples from a wider international field. The course forms a substantial part of the social work degree program and reflects the Standards in Social Work Education set for social work qualifying programs in Scotland. The course welcomes students who are not registered for the social work program but who are interested in how law and policy work together in this important area of social welfare.