Specialist Principles

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• how practice within the specialisms connects to the broader professional context of the graphic arts.
• an introductory range of methods, materials, techniques and skills specific to the pathways
• some of the contemporary issues, theories and practices maintained by artists or designers associated with a specialist subject

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• select and explore graphic art techniques, materials and processes
• apply practical skills effectively in the development of your work

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• begin to research and evaluate specialist concepts and methods in relation to contemporary practice covered by the scope of your workshops and projects
• evaluate and apply information gained through different research methods including library research
• apply critical enquiry to begin to manifest your ideas using forms relevant to specialist pathways.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate interpersonal skills and the ability to work with your peers
• identify, apply and evaluate a wide range of resources
• study independently and organise your time to produce work to set deadlines

Indicative content for this module normally includes:

An engagement with specialist teaching staff associated with a pathway who will set a series of projects designed to facilitate the development of specialist knowledge related to your chosen pathway.

Studio workshops will help you unpack key working methods and relevant techniques. To support this process, you will be introduced to specialist ways of working and contextual understanding of your chosen specialism.

In addition, workshop inductions will increase your discipline specific skills and enable you to deploy these in future projects. Critique and peer group discussion will allow you to evaluate your progress and adapt your outcomes through critical reflection.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

• project briefings
• lectures
• tutorials
• group critiques
• workshop inductions

Learning activities include:

• proactive engagement and understanding of guidance provided.
• critical reflection on peer group discussion.
• critique
• proactive engagement with tutorials
• peer group discussion
• evaluation and reflection.
• Study skills hub

Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment

methods and the planned learning outcomes

In this module learning and teaching activities focus on helping you to explore a specialist subject relevant to your programme of study. Specific attention will be given to developing an understanding of the particular issues, methodologies and practices of one of your discipline’s specialist subjects. You will explore one or more projects through tutor-led and independent practice in the studio/specialist area and use your experience of workshop inductions to advance your ideas and personalise your work. This level is about establishing a substructure of relevant skills and working methods but we will expect you to explore your creativity to produce exciting and informed responses to your project ideas.

Group critiques will help you develop an understanding of your own work and that of your peer group. You will have tutorials with specialist staff who will help you review your progress. This guidance will help those students who have to make an informed choice of pathway in Part two. Formative feedback in a studio setting will provide opportunities for peer group learning and self-evaluation. There will also be a focus on research and library based study skills in order to equip you for subsequent study.

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Ongoing reading. Preparatory and on-going reading suggested by your tutors will enable you to situate your work within existing literature and contemporary critical frameworks. Your increasing ability to effectively engage with relevant texts is a distinguishing aspect of this module and extends your overall skills development in Part 1.

Internet Resources

Blackboard.

Panopto.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External