Professional Planning and Evaluation (Dalian)

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• analyse your current practice for discipline direction and orientation
• Critically identify the strengths of your own work and evaluate related opportunities

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• employ digital skills to support your learning
• Effectively communicate across visual, oral and written formats using an appropriate range of relevant media

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• How to prepare a professional Curriculum Vitae and career plan for professional practice or further study
• employability and professional practice within the design and creative industries sector
• how to promote yourself and your work to employers

This module will support you in understanding and processing ideas about employability within your subject specific contexts. It will allow you to focus on strategies for gaining future employment and define a method of engagement with a professional context

Indicative content for this module:

Research methods and planning

• Researching employment fields
• Making full use of information and communication technologies

Professional Skills

• Digital /Creative content
• Building a digital CV
• Networking and the professional use of social media
• Presentation skills (preparation, presentation style and practice)
• Digital Portfolio
• Time management and project planning

interview skills

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

• lectures
• seminars
• tutorials
• workshops

Learning activities include

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

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Academic Integrity support.

The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support.

Harvard citing and referencing support including citethemright online resource.

Study Skills Workshops.

Blackboard.

Textbooks

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

Carr, M; Newell, L ((2014)). Guide to Fashion Entrepreneurship: The Plan, the Product, the Process.. Fairchild Books.

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

Koumbis, D. ( (2014)). Fashion Retailing: From Managing to Merchandising (Basics Fashion Management). Fairchild Books.

Bendoni, W ( (2017).). Social Media for Fashion Marketing: Storytelling in a Digital World.. Bloomsbury Visual Arts.

Cotterell, S. ( (2015)). Skills for Success: Personal Development and Employability.. London:: Macmillan Education, Palgrave.

Clazie, I (2010). Creating Your Digital Portfolio: The Essential Guide to Showcasing Your Design Work Online.. How Design Books.

Grose, V. ((2011)). Basics Fashion Management 01: Concept to Customer. AVA Publishing.

Koumbis, D. ((2013)). Fashion Buying: From Trend Forecasting to Shop Floor (Basics Fashion Management).. Fairchild Books.

Chen, D; Liang, G ( (2015)). Design Industry Blue Book: China design industry development report (2014-2015) Social Sciences. Academic Press.

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.