Professional and Critical Contexts

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• How your discipline integrates and socially engages with communities and the wider civic society

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Analyse, collate and manage sourced data and research to inform and underpin your decisions

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Explore and employ appropriate media, materials and processes when reviewing and refining ideas

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Manage workloads accommodating feedback, change and uncertainty

Indicative content for this module covers:

Presentations by professional practitioners and alumni will enable you to develop an understanding of a variety of contemporary practice models within graphic communication . You will then explore these models to identify specific employability issues in greater depth, such as equility and diversity, disruptive technologies or social engagement and the effects of these within contemporary industry structures. You will then be supported in understanding and processing employability within your chosen career context. This will allow you to focus upon strategies for employment and define a method of engaging with critical issues within professional contexts. Through research intensive tasks and briefs, you will construct written and visual outputs identifying relevant critical employability issues and the implications for your own professional development and industry integration.

Teaching methods include:

• Project Briefings
• Group tutorials and discussions
• One-to-one tutorials
• Critical Reviews
• Seminars
• Creative and technical workshops
• Visual presentations
• Industry insight from guest speakers

Learning activities include:

• Research and concept development workshops
• Creative design 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, contributing to the written summative feedback given at the end of the module.
• 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.