Professional and Industry Contexts for Textiles

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• how to locate your work within an appropriate professional and commercial context
• how to target your selected work for future employment or post-graduate study

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• reflect on your learning achievements towards your personal goals
• evaluate and propose a variety of approaches to contextualise your practice

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• communicate and present ideas in appropriate formats
• plan and manage your time effectively

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Identify an individual approach to promote your work in a professional context

This module will support your understanding of employability within your subject.

Indicative content for this module covers:

• Personal career planning and development
• Graduate skills and employability
• Careers advice
• CV writing workshops cover letter workshops
• Professional requirements
• Postgraduate study opportunities

Professional Skills

• Digital/creative content
• Networking and the professional use of social media
• Presentation skills (preparation, presentation style and practice)
• Time management and project planning
• Team work
• Communication
• Thinking and analysis

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

• lectures
• academic study skills sessions
• tutor-led seminars
• tutorials
• visiting lecturers

Learning activities include

• Independent learning, including reflection and evaluation of feedback
• independent research
• online reference material and tutorial notes
• peer group learning
• class discussions
• Study Skills Hub

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Academic Integrity issues. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/what-is-academic-integrity

WSA Creative Services: Students can access a wide range of 2D and 3D printing and laser cut facilities.

Harvard citing and referencing systems, including citethemright online resource. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/referencing

The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash

Digital Learning resource for students to access digital support and tutorials. www.lynda.com

Blackboard. http://blackboard.soton.ac.uk Panopto via Blackboard

Journal Articles

Working Papers in Art and Design: an on-line refereed Journal.

Textbooks

Cottrell, S (2015). Skills For Success : Personal Development And Employability. London: Macmillan Education : Palgrave.

Cottrell, S (2013). The Study Skills Handbook. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

McNiff, Jean & Whitehead, Jack (2009). You and Your Action Research Project. Routledge.

Cohen,Louis, Manion, Lawrence & Morrison, Keith (2007). Research Methods in Education. Routledge.

Gray, C, & Malins, J (2004). Visualizing Research. [Electronic Resource] : A Guide To The Research Process In Art And Design. Aldershot, Hants, England: Burlington, VT : Ashgate.

Schon, Donald A (1991). The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (Arena). Ashgate Publishing Limited.

McNiff, Jean & Whitehead, Jack (2009). Doing and Writing Action Research. Sage Publications Ltd.

Polanyi, Michael (2009). The Tacit Dimension. Chicago University Press.

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.