Module overview
Sharper focus in ongoing experimentation within your practice, greater ambition, and articulation of a well-defined critical context.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the professional standards, skills, principles and processes specific to your discipline
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Demonstrate connections between purpose, practice, outcome, context and presentation
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Record and document learning achievements to reflect, motivate and self-monitor
Syllabus
•continued development of ideas, applied in the testing of materials and techniques and reflection on results
•wholly self-directed individual practice
•an increasingly strategic approach to your emerging identity as an artist
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
•Briefings, tutorials, group crits, workshop inductions and self-directed studio-practice
•Work in progress and outcomes are discussed individually with tutors, and in group crits and project reviews.
•Jagged Edge sessions
•Learning opportunities include lectures on practice from visiting artists, studio (peer-group) discussion and self-evaluation and participation in the ‘Buddy System’ of assistance with the L3 Degree Show setup.
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Teaching | 48 |
| Independent Study | 252 |
| Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Crow, David (2003). Visible Signs, An Introduction to Semiotics in the Visual Arts. Bloomsbury.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
Assessment is by portfolio: a body of work mainly produced in on-campus workshops and studios, but also including any site-specific and location work, to be submitted with a log of the semester’s studio activity.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 briefs. You will experience formative feedback during the module in different learning situations, for example: tutorials, crits and written feedback.
- 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% |