Module overview
This module is one of the common core modules taken by all students on the Graphic Arts undergraduate programme. It will allow you to develop key thinking skills to construct and resolve your own self-initiated project brief. Within your brief, you be able to define the creative boundaries and methods of concluding the creative challenge and staff will be able to support you in advancing your brief writing knowledge by offering you a framework for brief construction.
This opportunity will allow you to start to define your own direction within your pathway, this brief is seen a pre-cursor to the Final Major Programme in the final year.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the approaches adopted by others working in your discipline;
- ways of developing work which evidences sustained engagement and critical awareness of your ideas in a practical and critical context specific to your discipline;
- how to test, experiment and take risks with a range of methods to manifest your discipline-specific ideas.
- how to apply knowledge gained from a range of sources and contexts to advance your self-initiated projects specific to your discipline;
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- apply iterative process of enquiry to research, experimentation, analysis and critical reflection;
- engage in a productive process of questioning and evaluation with reference to your creative choices;
- select and refine materials, media and process to realise your ideas to a more advanced level;
- evaluate your research and studio work in relation to its contemporary creative, social and cultural contexts.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- manage a self-initiated project to a deadline.
- visually articulate your ideas with increasing confidence;
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- apply increasingly advanced use of media and specialist graphic arts techniques appropriate to the communication of content, and to contemporary contexts;
- resolve final outcomes to a sophisticated level using appropriate media and communication strategies.
- utilise a range of advanced technical workshop skills to visually realise your graphic arts ideas;
Syllabus
•development of a self-selected project from a range of initial starting points with guidance from your tutors;
•A focussing of your ideas and experimentation in the studios, workshops or through other School resources;
•A self-selection and engagement with methods and techniques which will allow you to challenge your thinking and test your ideas thoroughly;
•Development of an increasing confidence through research methodologies to deepen insight into your chosen themes and develop effective and engaging visual outputs.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include:
•seminars;
•technical demonstrations and workshops;
•lectures;
•critical reviews;
•tutorials.
Learning activities include:
•seminars;
•self-selected workshop School resource-based learning;
•peer group learning;
•self-reflection through your reflective journal;
•Study Skills Hub.
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Supervised time in studio/workshop | 50 |
| Practical classes and workshops | 55 |
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 100 |
| Follow-up work | 20 |
| Seminar | 30 |
| Wider reading or practice | 70 |
| Tutorial | 55 |
| Completion of assessment task | 70 |
| Total study time | 450 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Portfolio
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: Feedback on project brief. You will experience formative feedback during the module in different learning situations, for example: tutorials, crits and written feedback, contributing to the written summative feedback given at the end of the module.
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 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.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |