Module overview
Continued, intensive experimentation within an increasingly defined practice which is starting to yield ambitious, professionally organised and audience-oriented outcomes.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Reflect and engage with critical feedback to enhance your work for an audience
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Test concepts, strategies and experiments to investigate, and problem solve through effectively interacting with others and sharing of knowledge
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- How diverse and equitable perspectives, relating but not limited to race, ethnicity, age, disability, gender, class, faith and sexual orientation innovate and enhance civic society and social engagement
Syllabus
•continued development of ideas, applied in experimentation with materials and techniques and reflection on results
•the pursuit of a dialogue with materials
•an increasingly organised and professionalised strategic framework for practice
•increasing individuality of practice and an awareness of issues of presentation and audience
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
•Briefings, tutorials, group crits, workshop inductions and self-directed studio-practice
•Work in progress and outcomes are discussed individually with tutors, and in group crits and project reviews.
•Jagged Edge sessions
•Learning opportunities include the Shared Drive project, lectures on practice from visiting artists, studio (peer-group) 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 portfolio: a body of work mainly produced in on-campus workshops and studios, but also including any site-specific and location work, to be submitted with a log of the semester’s studio activity.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 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% |