Module overview
This module will help you to develop personal and professional skills focussed on gaining employment within the design and creative industries. It will develop your understanding and encourage you to engage with key thinking and examples of employability within your chosen area of design. In your final semester of the final year you will reflect on personal professional aims and objectives and start planning your future career. This module will enhance your ability to look critically at your design work and position yourself within your chosen field and equip you with a strategy for employment.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- How to prepare a professional Curriculum Vitae and career plan for professional practice or further study
- how to promote yourself and your work to employers
- employability and professional practice within the design and creative industries sector
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Critically identify the strengths of your own work and evaluate related opportunities
- analyse your current practice for discipline direction and orientation
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Effectively communicate across visual, oral and written formats using an appropriate range of relevant media
- employ digital skills to support your learning
Syllabus
This module will support you in understanding and processing ideas about employability within your subject specific contexts. It will allow you to focus on strategies for gaining future employment and define a method of engagement with a professional context
Indicative content for this module:
Research methods and planning
- Researching employment fields
- Making full use of information and communication technologies
Professional Skills
- Digital /Creative content
- Building a digital CV
- Networking and the professional use of social media
- Presentation skills (preparation, presentation style and practice)
- Digital Portfolio
- Time management and project planning
interview skills
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include
- lectures
- seminars
- tutorials
- workshops
Learning activities include
- independent learning, including reflection and evaluation of feedback
- independent research
- online reference material
- tutorial notes
- peer group learning
- class discussions
- Study Skills support
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Independent Study | 114 |
| Teaching | 36 |
| Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support.
Harvard citing and referencing support including citethemright online resource.
Textbooks
Koumbis, D. ((2013)). Fashion Buying: From Trend Forecasting to Shop Floor (Basics Fashion Management).. Fairchild Books.
Clazie, I (2010). Creating Your Digital Portfolio: The Essential Guide to Showcasing Your Design Work Online.. How Design Books.
Grose, V. ((2011)). Basics Fashion Management 01: Concept to Customer. AVA Publishing.
Cotterell, S. ( (2015)). Skills for Success: Personal Development and Employability.. London:: Macmillan Education, Palgrave.
Chen, D; Liang, G ( (2015)). Design Industry Blue Book: China design industry development report (2014-2015) Social Sciences. Academic Press.
Gray, C & Malins, J ((2004)). Visualizing Research. (Electronic Resource): A Guide To The Research Process In Art And Design.. Aldershot, Hants, England: Burlington: Ashgate.
Cottrell, S ( (2013)). The Study Skills Handbook.. Basingstoke:: Palgrave Macmillan.
Carr, M; Newell, L ((2014)). Guide to Fashion Entrepreneurship: The Plan, the Product, the Process.. Fairchild Books.
Bendoni, W ( (2017).). Social Media for Fashion Marketing: Storytelling in a Digital World.. Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
Koumbis, D. ( (2014)). Fashion Retailing: From Managing to Merchandising (Basics Fashion Management). Fairchild Books.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Draft piece
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: The purpose of formative feedback is to enhance your learning, help you understand how your work is developing and how you can improve it in the future. There are no marks attached to formative assessment and it will not count towards your final mark. You will receive feedback through seminars, tutorials and critiques. You will also receive a Formative Assessment Feedback Sheet with written comments.
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 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 |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |