Promotion and Showcase

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 and outcomes across physical and digital, tailored to specific audiences, clients and markets

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Apply appropriate rules and conventions in academic writing.

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• How your practice relates to the professional and global context of your discipline

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Apply reflection and critically evaluate to formulate your ideas and thinking from extensive research and investigation

Indicative content for this module normally includes:

A process of identification of specific areas of industry where your potential career could be situated related to you as a interdisciplinary or specialist practitioner. There will also be group and self-reflection strategies to help identify key developments and strengths within the work you have produced on the course so far. Further teaching and learning activities will help you map a potential future trajectory and edit and prepare material that will equip you to communicate your potential to employers, clients, customers or for further study. You will also undertake research and report the promotional activities and outcomes used by practitioners, including analysing the messages and meanings of the visual and written language within promotion of practice. You will utilise both digital and analogue formats, and promotional deliverables such as CV, portfolio, showreel or a website will be developed out of insight into the specific characteristics of your emerging practice interests.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

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

Learning activities include:

• Research and concept development workshops
• Creative and technical workshops
• School resource based learning
• Seminars
• Peer group learning
• Group critiques
• Self-assessments

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Shaughnessy, Adrian (2012). How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul. Laurence King.

Barton G. (2016). Don't Get a Job… Make a Job: How to make it as a creative graduate. Laurence King.

Cottrell, S. (2015). Skills For Success: Personal Development And Employability. London: Macmillan Education.

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:
• 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.