Sustainability in Business and Design

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• articulate complex ideas at an advanced level in a variety of oral, written and presentation formats;
• research and appropriately reference texts and images in a variety of formats relevant to your study.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• analyse theoretical perspectives on topics such as, consumption, sustainable practices and globalisation;
• critically evaluate the competing challenges and debates relating to provenance, Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives and sustainability;
• interpret outcomes of personal research and propose solutions that attempt to address their impact and influence.

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• the overarching principles and theories around current thinking on sustainability;
• a selected range of case studies demonstrating the social, environmental and economic contexts around sustainability and ethical practices.

This module offers students the opportunities to critically analyse at an advanced level, debate and address key issues and principles associated with ethics and responsible design as they relate to your discipline-specific practice.

The concept and meaning of sustainability

The Impact of Consumption

• Seminar discussion
• Heading: CSR
• Seminar Discussion

Ethical Challenges

• Seminar Discussion

Innovation practices

• Seminar Discussion
• Heading: Case Studies and Initiatives
• Seminar Discussion

You will be encouraged to independently access and select material from different research sources to assist in developing appropriate peer group seminar discussions within creative arts and design contexts.

Teaching and learning methods

You will learn through a range of learning activities such as:

Teaching methods include:

• Lectures
• Seminars
• Tutorials

Learning activities include:

• Seminars
• Tutorials
• Independent study: reflect on in class feedback
• Contribute to group discussions
• Online research and reading
• Peer group learning

Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes

This module’s learning and teaching methods are designed to extend the students’ critical understanding of a range of key issues associated with responsible design. The module will encourage students to explore them further as part of their subject-specific practice.

In this module learning and teaching activities focus on helping students to investigate, question and analyse responsible design and associated creative practices, in order to be able to consider how varied responsible approaches influence their own work and the study or professional discipline in which they operate. Feedback on their progress and development will be delivered in group discussions in seminars, as well as during tutorials. Informal feedback by fellow students delivered in seminar will provide opportunities for peer group learning and self-evaluation.

The formal assessment will be conducted by a written essay that locates the students own ideas in the varied theoretical, research-led and practice-led contexts associated with responsible design.

Student-led sessions are intended to extend debates around material examined in lectures and seminars. These sessions, in combination with tutorials, allow students to develop their understanding of the knowledge and methods they have explored in this module. They also help them to evaluate their critical thinking, as well as other transferable skills.

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Blackboard.

Formative

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

Essay proposal

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: There will be a variety of opportunities for formative feedback in the module: - tutor- led seminars - peer-group assessment - self-assessment
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

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