{"id":54,"date":"2011-09-10T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.ace.ed.ac.uk\/mediaandculture\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2017-08-30T10:22:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T10:22:50","slug":"about-this-handbook","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/mediaculturehandbook\/about-this-handbook\/","title":{"rendered":"About this Handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 160%\">This handbook presents\u00a0information about the\u00a0<strong>MSc by Research in Digital Media and Culture <\/strong>and\u00a0is intended to provide students with basic information on the programme content, aims and objectives, teaching and assessment, support and other issues. It indicates what is expected of you, and will help you to make the most of your time on the Programme. It should be read carefully and frequently, and used in conjunction with other material provided by the University and the School (Edinburgh College of Art), especially the<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 160%;font-size: 13px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/academic-services\/policies-regulations\/research-students\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"line-height: 160%\">Code of Practice for Supervisors and Research Students<\/span><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 160%;font-size: 13px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 160%;font-size: 13px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eusa.ed.ac.uk\/activities\/postgraduate\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Students Association Postgrad Handbook<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 160%;font-size: 13px\"> (also known as the &#8220;EUSA Postgrad Guide&#8221;)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 160%\">Note that this handbook also references pages in the Handbook for the <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 160%\">MSc in Design and Digital Media<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 160%\">, with which it shares a number of courses and options.\u00a0Questions or problems should be addressed in the first instance to the Programme Director, Richard Coyne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 160%\">Note: This handbook is published by the Edinburgh College of Art to give information to candidates about the MSc\/Diploma programme. This programme handbook does not supersede the University regulations, and the formal requirements for the programme are as set out in the<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 160%;font-size: 13px\" title=\"DEGREE REGULATIONS &amp; PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2013\/2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drps.ed.ac.uk\/17-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University&#8217;s Postgraduate Study Regulations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 160%;font-size: 13px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/files\/atoms\/files\/pgrasstregs2017-18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Postgraduate Research Assessment Regulations 17\/18<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"line-height: 160%\">The <a title=\"Degree Programme Table describing the course structure and options\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/mediaculturehandbook\/degree-programme-table-tpt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Degree Programme Table (DPT)<\/a> entry for this programme\u00a0shows\u00a0its\u00a0structure and options. Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this handbook is correct at the start of the session. However, details are subject to change during the course of the year, and will then be notified to students as appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This handbook presents\u00a0information about the\u00a0MSc by Research in Digital Media and Culture and\u00a0is intended to provide students with basic information on the programme content, aims and objectives, teaching and assessment, support and other issues. It indicates what is expected of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/mediaculturehandbook\/about-this-handbook\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About this Handbook<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/mediaculturehandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/mediaculturehandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/mediaculturehandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/mediaculturehandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/mediaculturehandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/mediaculturehandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/mediaculturehandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/mediaculturehandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}