Course Delivery
The course will utilise a range of teaching strategies that provide opportunities for students with varying learning styles to develop skills, knowledge and employability throughout the course. Assessment strategies and deliverable types also support students with different educational experiences.
The studio environment fosters creativity, teamwork and communication as well as providing a great base for a cohort to become a community.
Our visiting lecturer series will ensure students meet designers from diverse backgrounds and of different ages, gender, ethnicity and background. New course content will also be developed that considers the decolonisation of the curriculum, ensuring that the students we teach study work of designers from a range of backgrounds, nationalities and cultures. Students will also be encouraged to bring their own cultural experience to their work and project their own identity onto projects.
To support inclusive learning and flexibility of working location, a number of the modules taught on this course will utilise blended learning, with some sessions taking place online. Digital content for 24/7 streaming will also be accessible to allow students to work on-campus, or remotely at their own pace.
Approach to Assessment and Feedback
Module grades are achieved through formative and summative assessment strategies, which use a variety of modes that are designed to be exploratory and experiential, and to reflect the process of accumulating the ranges of knowledge, skills and understanding through the award. The integrated approach to teaching outlined above favours a continuous process of assessment, as opposed to exam-based assessment.
Most modules carry single assessment tasks/activities, based on the submission of coursework, the nature of which is determined by the project/s or assignment/s set within the module, but which may consist of any one or a combination of the following components:
- Sketchbooks or logs, documenting the process of generating, developing and resolving thoughts and ideas and demonstrating the influence of research on practical work.
- Studio concept development boards and portfolios.
- Research files, documenting the gathering, sorting and presentation of research material.
- Creative output professionally presented in the format required by the assignment, project or brief.
- A report, written according to given guidelines as to word count and illustrated as required by the assignment.
- The script for a seminar presentation, and the presentation itself.
Assessment Feedback is provided in two main ways; orally in tutorial, critique and studio situations, and in writing, via a feedback form at the end of the module. Most modules have single assessment tasks based on the submission of a presentation and folder of design work. The precise nature of the submission deliverables is governed by the specific brief. Throughout modules students are encouraged to critically evaluate and reflect on practical and contextual issues, resulting in the ability to exercise autonomy, initiative and self-direction in preparation for professional life.