Professional Engagement

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• issues relating to employment and professional practice in Fine Art;
• the process of making applications for work and project support.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• select appropriate methods for presenting your professional practice;
• analyse your current practice for direction and professional context;
• recognise the professional opportunities relevant to your practice.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• produce written materials with direct application in the development of your career.
• manage information about yourself and your work with professional relevance;

This module will support you in understanding and processing employability within your subject specific contexts. It will allow you to focus upon strategies of employment and define a method of engaging within a professional context

Indicative content for this module covers:

• Artists’ Statements
• Career Strategy
• Commercial Opportunity
• Public Art
• Funding and Applications
• Project-Pitching
• Ethics and Audience
• Social Media and Engagement

Teaching methods include:

• lectures;
• sign-up tutorials.

Learning activities include:

• lectures;
• sign-up tutorials;
• Independent learning, including reflection and evaluation of feedback;
• independent research;
• online reference material and tutorial notes;
• peer-group learning.

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: Spoken feedback is given during an individual sign-up tutorial, at which you may present drafts of task documents completed to date. Feedback will be given on the basis of an outline inspection of these and any issues you raise.
• 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.