Outline
MAIS 752 will be studied over the course of 13 weeks:
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Where is Research-Creation?
Week 3: Art and / as Research
Week 4: Neurodiversity, Disability, and Knowledge
Week 5: The Anthropocene and COVID-19
Week 6: Planning week
Week 7: The Ethical Dilemmas of Participatory Art
Week 8: Food and Digestion
Week 9: The Textual, Thinking, and Literacies
Week 10: Media Ecologies
Week 11: On Failure
Week 12: Practices
Week 13: Conclusion
Learning outcomes
MAIS 752 has three major learning outcomes. After completing this course, students should be able to
- Write critically about Research Creation.
- Examine Research Creation projects and assess their methods, successes, and failures.
- Produce a proposal and Research Creation project.
Evaluation
To receive credit for MAIS 752, students must complete and submit all of the assignments, and achieve a minimum grade of C− (60 percent) for the course.
Students will be evaluated on their understanding of the concepts presented in the course and on their ability to apply those concepts. The final grade in the course will be based on the marks achieved for the following activities.
| Activity | Weight |
| Digital Presentation | 25% |
| Response Postings (2 at 10% each) | 20% |
| Project Proposal | 10% |
| Final Project | 35% |
| Presentation of Final Project | 10% |
| Total | 100% |
Materials
Digital course materials
Links to the following course materials will be made available in the course:
Loveless, Natalie, editor. Knowing & Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation. University of Alberta Press, 2020.
Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric. Graywolf Press, 2014.
All other course materials are available online.