Last modified: 05 Oct 2023 08:46
Petroleum is everywhere and yet seemingly invisible. This course offers students in Europe’s ‘energy capital’ (until recently its ‘oil and gas capital’) a space to critically explore how artists and filmmakers have visualised this elusive substance.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 3 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Crude oil is toxic, yet it is also one of humanity’s most primal and addictive objects of desire and dependency. It has given shape to visual culture, yet it has also wrought geopolitical and environmental chaos. From the oil rushes, booms and busts of the last 150 years to our current age of climate catastrophe, energy crisis and transition, how have filmmakers and artists visualised this omnipresent yet most elusive of substances? This interdisciplinary course engages students in the historical context and key theoretical discourse in the emerging fields of energy humanities and petroculture and may include works by Robert Flaherty, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Werner Herzog, Sue Jane Taylor, Herwig Turk and George Osodi, among others.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 32 | Feedback Weeks | 35 | |
| Feedback |
Students will be able to create a short video essay (5-8 minutes) or a portfolio project accompanied by a short reflective report (1,200 words). Portfolio project: details will depend on students' interests in working in different media (creative writing, photography, drawing, painting, new media, etc). Depending on the media, this might be equivalent to 5 A4 pages Feedback will be provided within 3 weeks of submission. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | To enhance the ability to identify core issues, ask pertinent questions, and engage in (oral and written) critical and comparative analysis, supported by pertinent evidence. |
| Conceptual | Understand | To develop knowledge and critical and contextual understanding of theories and key issues relating to the ways that crude oil has been visualised in film and visual culture. |
| Reflection | Create | To create a video essay or portfolio project (plus reflective report) in response to a critical prompt. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 36 | Feedback Weeks | 39 | |
| Feedback |
Word Count: 2,000-words. Feedback will be provided within 3 weeks of submission. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | To enhance the ability to identify core issues, ask pertinent questions, and engage in (oral and written) critical and comparative analysis, supported by pertinent evidence. |
| Conceptual | Understand | To develop knowledge and critical and contextual understanding of theories and key issues relating to the ways that crude oil has been visualised in film and visual culture. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38 | Feedback Weeks | 41 | |
| Feedback |
Feedback will be provided within 3 weeks of completion of the course. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | To enhance the ability to identify core issues, ask pertinent questions, and engage in (oral and written) critical and comparative analysis, supported by pertinent evidence. |
| Conceptual | Understand | To develop knowledge and critical and contextual understanding of theories and key issues relating to the ways that crude oil has been visualised in film and visual culture. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Feedback will be provided within 3 weeks of submission. |
Word Count | 3000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Understand | To develop knowledge and critical and contextual understanding of theories and key issues relating to the ways that crude oil has been visualised in film and visual culture. |
| Conceptual | Analyse | To enhance the ability to identify core issues, ask pertinent questions, and engage in (oral and written) critical and comparative analysis, supported by pertinent evidence. |
| Reflection | Create | To create a video essay or portfolio project (plus reflective report) in response to a critical prompt. |
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