Professional Planning and Evaluation (Dalian)

Module overview

This module will help you to develop personal and professional skills focussed on gaining employment within the design and creative industries. It will develop your understanding and encourage you to engage with key thinking and examples of employability within your chosen area of design. In your final semester of the final year you will reflect on personal professional aims and objectives and start planning your future career. This module will enhance your ability to look critically at your design work and position yourself within your chosen field and equip you with a strategy for employment.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Knowledge and Understanding

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

how to promote yourself and your work to employers
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

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Learning and Teaching

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

Study time
Type	Hours
Teaching	36
Independent Study	114
Total study time	150

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Harvard citing and referencing support including citethemright online resource.

Study Skills Workshops.

The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support.

Blackboard.

Academic Integrity support.

Textbooks

Koumbis, D. ( (2014)). Fashion Retailing: From Managing to Merchandising (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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Assessment

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Draft piece

Assessment Type: Formative
Feedback: The purpose of formative feedback is to enhance your learning, help you understand how your work is developing and how you can improve it in the future. There are no marks attached to formative assessment and it will not count towards your final mark. You will receive feedback through seminars, tutorials and critiques. You will also receive a Formative Assessment Feedback Sheet with written comments.
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%