Framing Your Practice

Module overview

Locating your adventure. This module enables you to look outwards from your developing studio practice to consider critically and analytically your own selection of other relevant cultural or creative outputs and to reflect on how they bear upon the direction of your work.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

the relationships in your work between contexts, concepts, content and methods.
theoretical and critical themes relevant to your studio practice;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

articulate connections between contextual data to further the development of your studio practice.
evaluate visual and textual information relevant to your ideas;
advance a set of ideas which locate your studio practice;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

organise your material for clarity of thought and communication, observing academic convention;
draw conclusions from reflection to further the development of your ideas.
draw upon a wide range of research sources, printed, electronic and actual;

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include: •lectures; •sign-up tutorials; •on-line support if you are studying the Student Exchange module. Learning activities include: •lectures; •sign-up tutorials; •library research; •on-line research; •Study Skills Hub. Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes Learning in this module is intended to be self-directed and independent, supported by a framework of lectures and tutorials. The module is an opportunity to reflect on your practice in a contemporary context of other artists’ and writers’ work, and to build an argument to support your ideas. If you are studying the Student Exchange module you will receive support via Panopto, Blackboard and by email. The assessed outcome of this module is the essay, which will be marked against the Learning Outcomes of the module.

Study time
Type	Hours
Seminar	6
Lecture	13.5
Tutorial	0.5
Completion of assessment task	80
Independent Study	20
Wider reading or practice	30
Total study time	150

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Blackboard (E:learning).

Library.

Panopto via Blackboard.

Academic Skills ( including AI).

Study Skills.

Textbooks

Polanyi, M. (2009). The Tacit Dimension. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

White, M. and Schwoch, J. (eds) (2006). Questions of Method in Cultural Studies. Oxford: Blackwell.

Calvino, I. (1974). Invisible Cities. Rome: Giulio Einaudi.

Hickey, D. (1997). Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy. Los Angeles: Art Issues Press.

Foster, H. (2017). Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency. New York: Verso.

Kocur, Z and Leung, S. eds. (2012). Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985. Oxford: John Wiley and Sons.

Schon, D. (1991). The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. Ashgate Publishing Limited.

Brett Davis, M. (2007). Doing a Successful Research Project: Using Qualitative or Quantitative Methods. London: Palgrave.

Cohen, L., Manion, L. and Morrison, K. (2007). Research Methods in Education. London: Routledge.

Rose, G. (2011). Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials. London: Sage.

Assessment

Formative

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

Essay proposal

Assessment Type: Formative
Feedback: Spoken feedback is given during an individual sign-up tutorial, at which you may present an outline of your proposed essay.
Final Assessment: No
Group Work: No

Summative

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

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Illustrated essay	100%

Referral

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

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Illustrated essay	100%

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.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Illustrated essay	100%