Visual Research and Study Skills for Textiles

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• how to locate and translate your visual and contextual research in written form to communicate and express your ideas effectively.
• an introduction to a research informed broad based appreciation of the wider cultural perspectives available in the development of your practice.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• present and communicate ideas effectively into written formats
• identify, select and draw upon a wide range of subject specific, printed and electronic sources to inform, communicate and challenge your thinking
• cite references and sources using the appropriate Harvard style referencing system
• study independently, manage your time and produce work to deadlines

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• generate and realise ideas through your analysis, evaluation and evidence the contextual connections of your research
• how to apply methods of enquiry, critical evaluation, selection and analysis of your research to your writing

• methods and approaches to Library skills, etc.
• research skills development
• academic writing
• critical thinking
• academic integrity
• source and information management
• time management
• critical analysis and evaluation

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

• lectures
• seminars
• tutorials
• peer discussion

Learning activities include

• lectures
• peer group learning
• seminars
• using, comparing and evaluating the specialist resources available
• Study Skills Hub

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash

Harvard citing and referencing systems, including citethemright onlineresource. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/what-is-academic-integrity http://www.studyskills.soton.ac.uk/integrity/

EdShare. http://edshare.soton.ac.uk

Blackboard. http://blackboard.soton.ac.uk(This will house most of your teaching materials, subject notes and information, videos, slides and documents) Panopto via Blackboard

The library provides comprehensive advice on researching and referencing material. http://www.soton.ac.uk/library/infoskills/index.html You will be guided by your tutors to preparatory and ongoing relevant texts whether in print or available online. These will enable you to gain an appreciation of the contemporary theoretical and practical framework in which you are working and promote discipline-specific critical thinking.

Textbooks

Barnard, Malcolm (2002). Fashion as Communication. London: Routledge.

Davis, Fred (1992). Fashion, Culture and Identity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Bruzzi, Stella and Church Gibson, Pamela (2000). Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations and Analysis. London: Routledge.

Wilson, Elizabeth (2003). Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity. London: I. B Tauris.

Cottrell S (2005). Critical Thinking Skills. Developing Effective Analysis and Argument. Palgrave Macmillan.

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