Module overview
Develop the skills needed as a professional artist beyond the studio, engaging with the key concepts and requirements around employability and position yourself for practice and employment on completion of the programme.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Professional development skills and how to promote yourself and your work to others
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an awareness and application of professional qualities and skills developed for future benefit.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Research current opportunities to situate your current practice and shape your future career
Syllabus
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 includes:
•Artists’ Statements
•Career Strategy
•Commercial Opportunity
•Public Art
•Funding and Applications
•Project-Pitching
•Ethics and Audience
•Social Media and Engagement
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
•lectures, tutorials and one-to-one assignment surgeries
•Interim and formative feedback on your progress will be given
•Learning opportunities include seminars, group discussion and student-led presentations, library research, gallery visits, lectures on practice from visiting artists, studio discussion and self-evaluation.
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Independent Study | 252 |
| Teaching | 48 |
| Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Crow, David (2003). Visible Signs, An Introduction to Semiotics in the Visual Arts. Bloomsbury.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
Assessment is by a submitted portfolio of professional documentsFormative
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 briefs. 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.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 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.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |