The GLAADH Initiatives each represent diverse ways of
enacting change across a broad scope of topic areas. Most are concerned with
drawing together resources, some approaching local museums and collections for
access and assistance, as well as reviewing what is available in print, visual
and other material. Many also involve researching unfamiliar topics. All the
Initiatives have focused on innovative strategies for teaching and learning, in
some cases using digitisation and new technologies to make resources more
widely available. Consistent themes across the Initiatives revolve around the
aim to develop and strengthen resources: staff resources and access to
specialists; access to visual resources; and accessibility of supporting
literature. Collaboration between institutions has also been a key aspect.
You will find below, a list of the ten Initiatives together
with a short summary of their project and a link to their case study report.
From there you can access two further background reports as well as feedback
from students and course outlines and bibliographies produced as consequence of
the changes enacted.
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Anglia Polytechnic University
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Project Description: A wide-based
change in the BA (Hons) Art History degree, accommodating a range of African,
American and Asian topics into seven existing modules at levels 1, 2 and 3. The
changes will involve accessing museums, collections and historic buildings in
the Southeast of England.
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Timescale: All modules to be taught
2002-3.
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Contact: Paul Shakeshaft
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Birkbeck College
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Project Description: A project to
develop film resources for teaching World Cinema at postgraduate
level.
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Timescale: Autumn 2002: MA
launch.
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Contact: Michael Allen
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University of Central England, Birmingham
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Project Description: A two-strand
project introducing multi-media applications for one of the school's key
globally-focused courses, whilst developing staff and resources for Chinese and
Japanese art and design at levels 1 and 2.
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Timescale: Feb 2001 - July
2003.
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Contact: Jonathan Day
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De Montfort University, Leicester
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Project Description: A two-strand
project which introduces a focus on South Asian contemporary crafts to an
existing level 2 and 3 module, whilst making accessible the visual archive of
PRASADA (Practice, Research and Advancement in South Asian Design and
Architecture). The project will also access craft expertise and material found
locally in the city of Leicester.
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Timescale: 2003: Present revised
module. 2002/3: Key digital images to be available.
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Contact: Richard Fynes
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University of Edinburgh
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Project Description: Initiating a
level 3 and 4 course on Latin American Modernism, and other lectures at levels
1 and 2, using visual material relevant to modernist architecture and public
art in Mexico. The materials are to be created through a field trip to Mexico
City, and will be disseminated.
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Timescale: Sept 2002: Visit to
Mexico. Spring 2004: New teaching at level 1/level2/Honours.
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Contact: Richard J. Williams
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University of Glasgow, University of St. Andrews and Aberdeen
University
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Project Description: A collaborative
project between the three universities to develop an academic network of
specialists and teaching resources dealing with the material culture of Central
and Eastern Europe. The project involves developing a web-based teaching
resource, and a new team-taught Honours course.
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Timescale: April - Dec 2002:
Curriculum development, scanning and cataloguing images. Jan - June 2003:
Deliver team-taught Honours course.
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Contact: Juliet Kinchin and Shona
Kallestrup
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University of Kingston
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Project Description: A broad-based
project to integrate diversity at all undergraduate levels in AADH and in the
MA Design History, including material drawn from outside Europe, diasporic
spaces and Southern and Eastern Europe. Dissemination of materials and methods
will also take place within the University and beyond.
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Timescale: Feb 2002 - Jan 2004:
Develop courses at levels 1 - 3 HAAD for teaching 2003 - 2004, develop MA
Design History and MA Curating Contemporary Design and present
workshops.
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Contact: Fran Lloyd
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University of Manchester
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Project Description: A strategy to
unlock existing museum resources in the Northwest of England relevant to
African art, develop a resource of images and object documentation, introduce
such material at level 3 and postgraduate level, and to widely disseminate
these teaching resources.
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Timescale: Feb 2004: Pilot teaching
tools in BA and MA classes. June 2004: Internal and external
Evaluations.
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Contact: Thomas Dowson
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University of Plymouth
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Project Description: A two-strand
project to broaden two existing modules (at levels 1 and 3) toward more diverse
topics, and to create a level 2 module using the World Cultures collection at
the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. This new module will emphasise
artistic culture in 19th century Africa, the Pacific and Native North America.
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Timescale: Feb 2002 - Jan 2003:
Development and validation.
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Contact: Stephanie Pratt
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Sheffield Hallam University
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Project Description: A project to
establish an undergraduate module focused on 'transculturation' and the visual
arts, and to develop on-line resources.
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Timescale: Jan-June 2003: Information
goes on-line, new module delivered, evaluation, development of resources
continues. Sept 2003 - Jan 2004: Dissemination, development for level
3.
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Contact: Rose Cooper
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