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This module will introduce you to a greater level of independence within your working methods. It will enable you to practice proposing, planning and directing an independent project in negotiation with your tutors. You will be asked to realise a project of exhibitable standard which is presented in a format appropriate to your subject area of interest. Tutors and technical teams will support your project progress. You will be expected to engage with regular tutorials to help guide your coursework. Sessions will enable you to demonstrate and present a thorough narrative of your creative process to underpin your project.
This module will focus on introducing you to subject specific approaches to guide your creative thinking and making. It will enable you to start to consider and direct your studies in line with your future progression choices within degree study and career path. You will be asked to select, edit and resolve outcomes to create a cohesive collection of work that represents your growing practice and interests. You will engage with subject specific workshops and seminars that will further develop your skills, awareness and insights within your area of study. Practical workshops will be underpinned through a set of subject specific journal tasks designed to enhance a wider perception of subject discipline and help you make new connections to your subject interest.
This module will introduce you to idea generation techniques and a range of drawing and visual imagery skills using analogue and digital processes. You will practice a range of processes used within visual arts and design subject specialisms in the School of Creative Industries, helping to prepare you for your Level 4 subject area of interest. This module will enable you to practice generating concepts and effectively communicating your ideas. You will try out a range of key and more experimental drawing approaches as a fundamental method of exploring and discussing your ideas. Workshops will allow you to practice and explore a variety of visual techniques during short and more sustained projects. Enabling you to create concepts, test process and resolve your work.
This module is designed to introduce you to key concepts related to creative identity, creative process and subject specific areas of interest within the School of Creative Industries. During this module you will undertake a research based design project to identify, investigate and reflect on your findings in relation to your career aspirations. This project will assist you to develop academic study skills in research, analysis, and referencing. You will be introduced to a range of subject specific ways of working through scheduled workshops and seminars. These sessions will enable you to experience and experiment in a variety of subject methodologies in a practical and contextual basis. This module is designed to guide you in gaining greater insight into the applications, possibilities and career prospects within each subject area.
What is your relationship with art? This module is an introduction to contemporary art, encouraging students to think critically about their personal and cultural relationships with art while exploring a wide range of contemporary issues, theories, and practices.
Reframing Making: This module explore reviewing Artworks through critical reflection and reprising them for modes of professional presentation.
This module introduces you to key making skills. You will develop the confidence to play, to take risks, to tacitly explore materials and unpick the knowledge and ideas that emerge from this. As a studio and workshop-based module, you will be introduced to a range of resources and staff working across the School of Creative Industries to provide you with specialist making methodologies appropriate to your practice. As a Level 4 student in the School of Creative Industries you will be supported to make the leap between your prior educational experiences and independent practice within the studio setting. You will develop time management skills through structured tasks and increasingly you will be expected to make use of independent study hours to further test and progress your work in the studios and workshops. In this module you will also learn to document and record your work effectively and gain confidence in reflecting on your work in sketchbooks, journals, group reviews and tutorials in relation to a range of contextual ideas, practitioners, and projects associated with your work.
In this module, students are invited to explore how they and their peers perceive the world and examine how that fits in with creative practice and the wider context of the Creative Industries. The focus is on empowering voices and refining the articulation of ideas. The module aims to develop students' abilities to critically analyse information and engage in thoughtful, sometimes controversial, discussions on contemporary issues. It provides an opportunity to explore concepts including cultural, social, political, economic, and environmental factors and across various disciplines. Additionally, it encourages the exploration of diverse perspectives and fosters the development of collaborative and inclusive communication skills.
This module examines and develops the critical and contextual engagement within artistic practice. The module explores the relationship between both theory and theoretical research through the impact this has within artistic production and audience.
The Inquisitive Studio will develop your studio practice within contextual frameworks, negotiated study and an understanding of wider audience.
In this module, students will be supported to make the leap between Level 4 studio experiences towards independent and experimental studio enquiries to further test and progress their work. The Experimental Studio module challenges students to push beyond their comfort zones and explore new, interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary studio practice.
This module is about ‘you’ and your place in the world, with a view to refining your specialism as a professional/practitioner and improving your profile. The module will be delivered across specific course groupings that capture the core values of each course. Across this module students will typically undertake at least one major externally facing project (e.g. live brief, placement, virtual placement, etc) or 2-3 smaller projects by negotiation. These projects will support student transferable skills around employment within the Creative Industries.
Making for Display will provide the he opportunity to develop, produce and resolve a significant body of work that will demonstrate professional modes of display for wider audiences.
This module is an opportunity to undertake an in-depth study of a topic of interest related to your individual practice. It provides space to consider a variety of ways to explore writing and critical theory, considering writing for art, writing as art, writing about art and the use of language and theory to develop your practice. Through the dissertation, you will produce an academic study that reflects your understanding of the synergies between theory and practice. The module will allow you to critically assess your work and the work of others in relation to contemporary debates in the art world. You will situate your practice in relation to wider cultural and critical voices that you explore through your research.
The Speculative Studio provides the opportunity to test and explore practice as research for external audiences.
This module is about your 'career' after you complete your formal UG study. It is about the realities of (and preparation for) freelance, entrepreneurial, industry and further study trajectories. This pan-school module will hinge around students creating a personal career strategy plan called ‘28 days later’. The purpose is for students to take accountability and ownership over their future direction by creating a career plan that they activate when leaving the course with a view to maximise their long term employability prospects.
