Final Project (Digital Media Practices)

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• Engagement with current ideas, debates, theoretical perspectives and contexts related to critical digital media studies to construct new insights
• Application of inclusive, ethical and sustainability responsibilities for future developments related to critical digital media studies

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate critical reflection on inclusive, ethical and sustainable professional development opportunities
• Create a final research project that demonstrates creative problem-solving, appropriate structure and effective communication techniques

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate advancement of critical awareness of inclusive, ethical and sustainable practices related to critical digital media studies
• Synthesise and create a final research project that creates original outputs through critical and creative engagement with data, information, methods and techniques

On this module you will put into practice the research and analytical skills that you have learned on the programme. Through lectures, seminars, workshops, group tutorials, and one-to-one personal supervision you will engage with the Final Project research process:

• Identify an issue relating to Digital Media and undertake independent research
• Develop appropriate research design
• Analyse your findings with reference to relevant theoretical perspectives
• Present your research in an appropriate way

Teaching methods will include:

• Tutor guidance
• Tutor-led workshops

Learning activities include:

• Reflection on verbal or written feedback
• Independent research and investigation

Formative

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

Tutor evaluation

• 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.