Reflective Journal (Dalian)

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• how different facets of your work inter-connect: the relationship between your discipline, context, concepts, materials, techniques and audience.
• Ways of communicating an informed and critical understanding of your work in the context of the subject you are studying
• an appropriate selection of material for the Reflective Journal supported by relevant analysis of the ideas it encompasses.
• the relevance of key discipline-specific theoretical and contextual themes to your work

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• develop useful links between your contextual data suitable to advance your work in the Final Major Project
• formulate an idea and broadly research its context in a sophisticated way, for example using search methods and / or abstract association
• formulate a creative profile based on your chosen context.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• identify, select and draw upon a wide range of visual, printed and electronic sources
• demonstrate organisational skills
• work independently on the analysis and evaluation of your ideas

This module will facilitate reflection on ideas and practice, including any professional experience you have gained, to enable an understanding of the development of your work undertaken during your undergraduate study and specifically for your Final Major Project.

You will produce a reflective account of your learning experiences that looks back over your development as a design student , in the context of your vision for, and implementation of, your Final Major Project work.

The module will also encourage you to increasingly focus your thinking on your design career after graduation. Your assessment will include elements related to selecting and presenting your work in portfolio form suitable for postgraduate study and professional career purposes.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

• Introductory Lectures
• Tutorials

Learning activities include

• Self-reflection
• Independent analysis
• Peer Learning

Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes

Learning in this module builds on the skills you developed through the previous year’s Reflective Journal. It is intended to be highly independent and self-directed, supported by a framework of tutorials. The approach encourages you to reflect on your specialist skills in a contemporary, discipline-focused context; on the development of your ideas in Specialist Practice 3 and on-going work in the Final Major Project. A self-reflective approach is essential, as you consider your now highly independent working practices.

The assessment of this module will consist of:

a reflective portfolio 2,500 word equivalent showcasing your design work with written reflection on your development as a design practitioner during your undergraduate study period in the context of your work on your Final Major Project.

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

resources. Academic Integrity support http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/what-is-academic-integrity Blackboard Blackboard http://blackboard.soton.ac.uk Harvard citing and referencing support including citethemright online resource http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/referencing Study Skills Workshops http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/workshops/ The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash

Textbooks

Clarke, M. (2007). Verbalising the visual: translating art and design into words. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing.

Potter, N. (2002). What is a designer: Things, places, messages. London: Hyphen Press.

Davis, M. (2012). Graphic design theory (Graphic Design in Context). London: Thames & Hudson.

Rawsthorn, A. (n.d.). (2013). Hello world: Where design meets life. Hamish Hamilton.

Lupton, E., & Miller, J. (1999). Design Writing Research: Writing on graphic design. London: Phiadon.

Armstrong, H. (2009). Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the field. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

McCarthy, S., & Venezky, M. (n.d.). (2013). The designer as author, producer, activist, entrepreneur, curator & collaborator: New models for communicating. Bis Publishers.

Benjamin, W. (2008). The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. London: Penguin.

Braun-Feldweg Förderpreis. W. (2010). Slow Fashion: Alternative Fashion Concepts. Niggli Verlag.

Bourdieu, P. (1984). Distinction: A social critique of the Judgement of Taste. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.

Mootee, I. (2013). Design Thinking for Strategic innovation. Canada: John Wiley & Sons.

Sudjic, D. (2009). The language of things. London: Penguin.

Black, S. (2012). Eco Fashion- the Fashion Paradox. Routledge.

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.