Professional and Academic Skills 2 | ARTD6114

Module overview

This module is one of the compulsory modules on your programme that provide you with a deeper engagement with the academic and professional skills to support the preparation of your Final Project work.

The module encourages you to engage directly with the range of physical and online library resources necessary to promote advanced level research skills. The module will provide opportunities to develop your academic literacy and proposal writing skills through planned workshops/lectures/seminars.

Additionally the teaching helps you develop the personal and professional organisational and self-management attributes that are associated with professional practice.

You will be able to participate in arranged English language sessions, as part of the University’s mission to enhance academic student support.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

good academic practice underpinning the research process from design to completion;
contemporary issues relevant to the creative industries.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

design and deliver work of a professional standard that considers relevant ethical obligations.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

engage in advanced critical thinking to prepare for and plan a research project;
conduct research and enquiry applying appropriate research methods to data collection and reporting.

Syllabus

Academic and Information Literacy

Engaging with discipline-specific literature
Library catalogues and databases
Internet gateways and portals
Reading and writing critically
Structuring an argument
Editing your work
Referencing and academic integrity
Research ethics and using ERGO

Research Design

Designing a research question
Methodologies to test the question
Synthesising your findings
The structure of a research proposal
Designing and implementing your proposal
Timelines and task management

Professional skills

Self evaluation
Self-direction

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

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

Learning activities include

independent learning, including reflection and evaluation of feedback
group projects and formative collaborative tasks
problem-solving activities
optional study visits
independent research
using online reference material and tutorial notes
peer-group learning
class discussions

Study time
Type	Hours
Independent Study	174
Teaching	26
Total study time	200

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Blackboard.

Textbooks

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

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

Easterby-Smith, M., Thorpe, R. and Jackson P. R. (2015). Management & Business Research. London: SAGE.

Bilton, C. and Cummings, S (2014). Handbook of Management and Creativity. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

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

Assessment

Formative

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

Research outline

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Research proposal	100%

Referral

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

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Research proposal	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
Research proposal	100%

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External