Specialist Practice and Skills

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• visually communicate decision making processes;
• document how contextual research informs idea development;
• develop and manage a project through to a resolved final outcome.

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• evidence a critical contextual engagement with your subject discipline.
• demonstrate knowledge of the practical methods and concepts specific to your pathway discipline;
• identify key technical and craft skills to underpin specialist practice;

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• apply increasingly sophisticated and experimental methods to idea development;
• use appropriate specialist technical and craft skills to develop your work;
• resolve final outcomes with higher production values.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate contextual knowledge to inform idea development and problem solving;
• develop an experimental approach to specialist practice.
• critically interrogate ideas through research and identify potential creative approaches;

Indicative content for this module normally includes:

• Builds upon the introduction to technical and craft skills from Part 1 of the programme and extends these within your chosen specialist pathway.
• The development of increasingly sophisticated working methods, that facilitate the transition from the more defined parameters of Part one to the independent initiatives expected in the second semester of Part two.
• An independent critical engagement with specialist industry practice through contextual research and studio discussion. Your growing contextual subject knowledge will inform the progression of your work and begin to develop a more self-critical, analytical approach to your decision making processes.
• A development of your key skill set through a series of specialist projects, supported by relevant technical workshops, that build towards a coherent set of methods relevant to your chosen pathway. You will draw together these skills and working methods, and begin to visually articulate ideas through specialist media. Alongside the consolidation of this skill set, you will also be encouraged to challenge established conventions with experimentation and innovation within your emerging creative strategies.
• You will assemble a portfolio of work that evidences an engagement with the full range of specialist projects and demonstrates how you integrate these skills and working methods, and begin to visually articulate ideas through specialist media.

Teaching methods include:

• technical demonstrations;
• lectures;
• seminars;
• tutorials;
• critical reviews.

Learning activities include:

• technical demonstrations;
• seminars;
• workshop-based learning;
• peer group learning;
• Study Skills Hub.

Formative

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

Portfolio

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Feedback on project brief. You will experience formative feedback during the module in different learning situations, for example: tutorials, crits and written feedback, contributing to the written summative feedback given at the end of the module.
• 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.