Module overview
In this module you will conduct theoretical research for your Final Project. You will engage with critical issues, contexts and questions, and identify significant practitioners and creative bodies to inform your creative practice. You will develop your project ideas in relation to your career aspirations and industry research, reflecting on – and communicating – your personal practice.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- utilise appropriate, complex methods and technologies in the professional presentation of ideas, processes and outcomes across the physical and the digital, tailored to specific audiences, clients and markets.
Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- the ability to undertake problem identification and analysis to appropriately design, develop, test, integrate or deploy a complex computing system and any associated artefacts; understand the relationship between stages and be able to demonstrate sophisticated problem-solving and evidence-informed evaluative skills
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- reflect and engage with critical feedback to enhance your work for an audience
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- test concepts, strategies and experiments to investigate and problem solve through effectively interacting with others and knowledge exchange
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- how diverse and equitable perspective, relating but not limited to race, ethnicity, age, disability, gender, class, faith and sexual orientation innovate and enhance civic society and social engagement
Syllabus
The module will focus on students’ individual projects and creative development in two main ways:
1. professional development - students will be supported in the development of marketing and communicational materials for their project and their professional profile;
2. theoretical engagement - supported by lectures, talks and seminars, students will identify, research and communicate significant theoretical, social and industrial issues in relation to the development of their Major Project as critical practice.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
This module will be workshop-based and students will pursue their project, professional development and research ideas with support through lectures, tutorials, seminars and visiting speakers. Technical support will be tailored to the needs of particular projects.
Type | Hours |
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Independent Study | 248 |
Teaching | 42 |
Total study time | 290 |
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Digital presentation
- 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.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Critical article and verbal presentation | 50% |
Digital presentation | 50% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Digital presentation | 50% |
Critical article and verbal presentation | 50% |