Final Major Project

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• independently select and utilise techniques and processes to develop outcomes with professional levels of detailing and refinement

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• The implications and the potential of key social, sustainable, and technological developments in your discipline to inform an influential final project

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Communicate your ideas, research and proposals in a professional manner appropriate to the method, chosen topic or assessment

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Be resourceful, ethical and entrepreneurial to innovate and realise independent concepts and proposals to final conclusion

This module represents the culmination of the knowledges and skills of three years of study. It enables you to develop your work from experimentation, iteration and testing to the production of consolidated outcomes. This module provides realisation to the body of planning which was undertaken within semester ones situating and expressing practice module. You will direct and realise your ideas through the concepts and practical requirements of your professionally planned project. This module focuses on planning and producing a career specific body of work that is critically informed with regard to the ideas that you wish to communicate and who you wish to communicate to.

Students will present their final submission, supported by a professionally presented portfolio, in a format that is reflective of current practice in the graphic communication industries.

Teaching methods include:

• Project Briefings
• Group tutorials and discussions
• One-to-one tutorials
• Critical Reviews
• Lectures
• Seminars
• Creative and technical workshops
• Visual presentations

Learning activities include:

• Research and concept workshops
• Creative and technical workshops
• School resource based learning
• Seminars
• Peer group learning
• Group critiques
• Self-assessments

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.
• 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.