Professional Engagement

Module overview

Looking to the future. This module will help you demonstrate the skills you will need as a professional artist beyond the studio, engaging you with key concepts and skills around employability. The first semester of the final year is a critical juncture for thinking and planning your career prior to undertaking your final project on the programme. This module will enhance your ability to position yourself for practice and employment on completion of the programme.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

the process of making applications for work and project support.
issues relating to employment and professional practice in Fine Art;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

analyse your current practice for direction and professional context;
select appropriate methods for presenting your professional practice;
recognise the professional opportunities relevant to your practice.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

produce written materials with direct application in the development of your career.
manage information about yourself and your work with professional relevance;

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include: •lectures; •sign-up tutorials. Learning activities include: •lectures; •sign-up tutorials; •Independent learning, including reflection and evaluation of feedback; •independent research; •online reference material and tutorial notes; •peer-group learning.

Study time
Type	Hours
Seminar	6
Lecture	13.5
Wider reading or practice	50
Completion of assessment task	80
Tutorial	0.5
Total study time	150

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Study Skills.

Library.

Blackboard (E:learning).

Academic Skills ( including AI).

Journal Articles

(2009/10). Collective Curating. Manifesta Journal, 8.

Textbooks

Cottrell, S (2015). Skills for Success: Personal Development and Employability. London: Intellect or Journal of Curatorial Studies.

Thea, C. (2009). On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, Inc..

Adamson, G. (2007). What Makes a Great Exhibition?. London and Philadelphia: University of the Arts.

Smith, T. (2012). Thinking Contemporary Curation. New York: Independent Curators Inc..

Martinon, J.-P. (ed) (2013). The Curatorial: A Philosophy of Curating. London: Bloomsbury.

Steedman, M. (ed) (2012). Gallery as Community: Art, Education, Politics. London: Whitechapel Gallery.

O’Neill, P. (2012). The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s). Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press..

Obrist, H. (2008). A Brief History of Curating. London: JRP Ringier.

Barker, E. (1999). Contemporary Cultures of Display. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press.

Obrist, H. (2014). Ways of Curating. London: Allen Lane.

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: Spoken feedback is given during an individual sign-up tutorial, at which you may present drafts of task documents completed to date. Feedback will be given on the basis of an outline inspection of these and any issues you raise.
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
Portfolio	100%

Referral

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

Breakdown
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.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Portfolio	100%