Critical Reflection of Specialism

Module overview

This module provides you with the opportunity to broaden your research and develop a deeper critical context related to your own practice. It will allow you to take a structured approach to the documentation of research material, while facilitating a process of reflective engagement with the relationships and connections within your analysis. Reflection within research is a cyclical process and it is important that this reflection feeds back into the actions of your ongoing research.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

a critical, cultural context for the positioning of your work within contemporary practices;
how different facets of your work inter-connect: the relationship between context, concepts, materials and techniques.
key theoretical and contextual themes relevant to your ideas;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

demonstrate organisational skills and time-management;
demonstrate academic integrity appropriate for this level of study.
identify, select and draw upon a wide range of visual, printed and electronic sources;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

identify a range of working methods relevant to your discipline.
reflect on, research and develop ideas in context;
find links between your contextual sources;

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include: •lectures; •seminars; •tutorials; •online tutorials via Lynda.com; •introduction to the module (In Semester 1 for those taking the Student Exchange Module); •face-to-face and/or online electronic support if you are studying the Student Exchange module; Learning activities include: •reflective blog posts; •self-reflection (i.e., what have I experienced?); •independent analysis (i.e., what have I learnt from looking at the work of other artists’ artefacts etc.); •Study Skills Hub.

Study time
Type	Hours
Seminar	4
Follow-up work	8
Lecture	12
Preparation for scheduled sessions	26
Wider reading or practice	30
Tutorial	8
Completion of assessment task	62
Total study time	150

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Blackboard.

Panopto via Blackboard.

Textbooks

Shirky, C. (2009). Here Comes Everybody. Pneguin UK.

Mason, M. (2009). The Pirate’s Dilemma. Simon and Schuster.

Lessig, L. (2004). Free Culture. Penguin.

Tapscott, D. and Williams, A. D. (2008). Wikinomics. Penguin.

Poynor, R. (2007). Obey the Giant: Life in Image World. Berlin: Birkhäuser GmbH.

Rushkoff, D. (2009). Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age. Berkeley: Soft Skull Press.

Stallman. Boston (2009). MA: GNU Press. Free Software Foundation.

Assessment

Formative

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

Blog Post

Assessment Type: Formative
Feedback: Feedback on reflective writing in the blog posts. You will experience formative feedback in different learning situations, for example: •individual tutorials •group tutorials •tutor comments on blog entries
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
Blog Post	100%

Referral

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

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Blog Post	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
Blog Post	100%