Module overview
This module focusses on employability and will allow you to research key industry practitioners, their ways of working and offer the opportunity to analyse and define an area of the creative industry which you feel will become relatable to your future career pathway. It will offer the opportunity to engage with key concepts and skills around employability with your chosen area within your programme. The first semester of the final year is a critical juncture for thinking and planning your future career as you are about to undertake your final project on the programme. This module will enhance your ability to position yourself with your chosen field of work and equip you with a strategy to aim at employment.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- analyse your current practice for discipline direction and orientation;
- evaluate and apply a variety of academic approaches to contextualise your practice.
- select appropriate methods for a professional standard of research;
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the recruitment process, including specifics of the application process.
- the current job market of your subject specific industry sector;
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- solve problems independently in a creative and innovative way.
- develop and manage your time effectively to set deadlines;
Syllabus
This module will support you in understanding and processing employability within your subject specific contexts. It will allow you to focus upon strategies of employment and define a method of engaging within a professional context
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 the graphic arts, alongside potential avenues for further study. After analysing contemporary practice within graphic arts you will evaluate disciplinarity within creative industry structures.
Through the Identifying key areas of practice, you will construct an essay identifying critical contexts of the creative industries.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include:
- lectures;
- academic study skills sessions;
- tutor-led seminars;
- tutorials;
- visiting lecturers.
Learning activities include:
- Independent learning, including reflection and evaluation of feedback;
- independent research;
- online reference material and tutorial notes;
- peer group learning;
- class discussions;
- Study Skills Hub.
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 10 |
| Lecture | 14 |
| Seminar | 3 |
| Tutorial | 7 |
| Completion of assessment task | 60 |
| Follow-up work | 16 |
| Wider reading or practice | 40 |
| Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
Journal Articles
Working Papers in Art and Design (This journal can be accessed through the TDNet Journals Gateway on the WSA Library Webcat)..
Textbooks
Cottrell, S. (2015). Skills For Success: Personal Development And Employability. London: Macmillan Education.
Gray, C, & Malins, J. (2004). Visualizing Research. A Guide To The Research Process In Art And Design. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Cottrell, S. (2013). The Study Skills Handbook. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion and Keith Morrison (2007). Research Methods in Education. Routledge.
Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead (2009). You and Your Action Research Project. Routledge.
Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead (2009). Doing and Writing Action Research. Sage Publications Ltd.
Michael Polanyi (2009). The Tacit Dimension. Chicago University Press.
Donald A Schon (1991). The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (Arena). Ashgate Publishing Limited.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Essay
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: Feedback on your essay. You will experience formative feedback in different learning situations, for example: •individual tutorials •group seminars
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Essay | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Essay | 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 |
|---|---|
| Essay | 100% |