Professional Contexts

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• select appropriate methods for a professional standard of research.
• analyse your current practice for discipline direction and orientation;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• evaluate and apply a variety of academic approaches to contextualise your practice;
• employ digital literacies to support your learning.
• develop and manage your time effectively to set deadlines;

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• the current job market within games design and related creative industries.
• the recruitment process, including specifics of the application process;

This module will run as a series of industry and professional body talks related to employment within the games and creative industries introducing you to a wide range of activities you could undertake after graduation. Talks will also cover basic careers advice and the journeys from graduation to employment. You will be asked to reflect upon these talks in a series of reflective blog posts and consider how you own working practice could be applicable in the field described and reflect upon the processes you wish to undertake to secure employment, freelance activities or stand a business on successful graduation. This reflective process should also help you to consider your work within Project Proposal and Major Project GDA.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

• lectures;
• seminars.

Learning activities include:

• discussion;
• blog writing;
• independent research and reflection;
• industry 1-1 discussions;
• Academic Skills Hub;
• Careers Service.

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Panopto Recordings (via Blackboard).

Lynda.com (via Blackboard).

Blackboard.

Academic Skills Hub.

Working Papers in Art and Design.

Textbooks

Cottrell, S. (2013). The Study Skills Handbook. Macmillan International Higher Education.

Cottrell, S. (2015). Skills for Success. Macmillan International Higher Education.

Polanyi, M. & Sen, A. (2009). The Tacit Dimension. University of Chicago Press.

Cohen, L., Manion, L. & Morrison, K. (2017). Research Methods in Education. Routledge.

McNiff, J. & Whitehead, J. (2009). Doing and Writing Action Research. SAGE.

Schön, D.A. (2017). The Reflective Practitioner. Routledge.

Gray, C. & Malins, J. (2016). Visualizing Research. Routledge.

McNiff, J. (2016). You and Your Action Research Project. 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.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External