Final Major Project (Graphic Arts)

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• a range of methods and creative strategies for project development;
• the creative, social and cultural contexts related to your pathway.
• the principles and practices necessary to work at a professional level in your discipline;

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• select and communicate ambitious ideas through appropriate visual means.
• select appropriate media and materials within a professional subject context;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• critically evaluate key methods and decisions to develop your final major project from conception to final outcomes.
• apply a critical approach to your work and its relationship to contemporary contexts and practices;
• select and refine materials, media and processes to realise your ideas to a sophisticated level;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• select, plan, organise and realise your major project to a professional standard;
• bring together new and previously acquired skills in the realisation of your project;
• identify and resolve practical and theoretical problems.

This module represents the culmination of your three years of study. It enables you to develop your work from experimentation to the production of consolidated outcomes. You will direct and realise your ideas through the concepts and practical requirements of your professionally planned project. In helping you evaluate a selection of your work for exposure to an audience, this module focuses on planning and producing a pathway specific body of work that is critically informed with regard to the ideas that you wish to communicate.

Students will present their final submission, supported by a professionally presented portfolio, in a format that reflects current practice in the graphic industries.

Teaching methods include:

• seminars;
• tutorials;
• group critiques.

Learning activities include:

• seminars;
• group critiques;
• tutorials;
• peer group learning;
• study skills hub.

Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes

In this module learning and teaching activities focus on helping you to bring your ideas and practice to synthesis and conclusion. You will address preparation and management of your project toward its exposure to an audience, for example, curators, employers and clients.

Alongside this module, you will keep a detailed Reflective Journal, which will enable you to understand the parameters of your specialist practice and focus your thinking. It will assist you in applying insights drawn from enquiry into your practice in the development of work for this module. The Reflective Journal will be assessed separately.

Feedback on your progress and development will be given in group critiques, tutorials or informal feedback in a studio setting. The formal assessment will be based on the presentation of an exhibition of practical work.

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.