Explore, Analyse, Interpret

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• creative engagement with key ideas and debates in Communication Design and their professional contexts and challenges.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Utilize speculative thinking and practice-led research to produce intricate communication design assets

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• design and create an assessment output that demonstrates creative problem-solving and effective communication techniques

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• use inclusive, ethical and sustainable practices to design and evaluate an assessment output evidencing project management techniques and research methods

Proposed Content:

• Design research theory and methods
• Practice-led research
• Critical and speculative design
• Experimental making and explorative making
• Reflective writing

Teaching methods encompass workshops, lectures, tutorials, presentations, and site visits, while learning activities involve design practice, group activities, independent study, reading, and reflective writing.

Formative

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

Feedback Workshop

• Assessment Type: Formative
• 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.