Module Information
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Assignment Portfoli | 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Assignment 1 Portfolio | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Produce a coherent self-directed project, demonstrating the development of an initial idea through research, experimentation, refinement, and final realisation
Employ appropriate techniques, processes, concepts and terminology specific to their self-directed project
Demonstrate an advanced understanding of how creative practitioners communicate and innovate through creative practice
Identify their project within the context of contemporary and historical traditions of art practice and to communicate those ideas through tutorials and seminars
Articulate clearly how to intervene with a public site and situation when proposing, pitching and staging a public exhibition of a self-directed project
Demonstrate independence, sustained working and a coherent resolution of ideas to prescribed deadlines
Brief description
Students can work in any medium—such as painting, textiles, video, photography, or installation—and are encouraged to explore imaginative approaches to the set theme. The module supports each stage of the creative process, from concept development and research to testing materials and techniques, reflecting on outcomes, and refining the final work.
By the end of the module, students will plan, propose, and present their completed project either in the Project Room or at a site of their choice, demonstrating their ability to manage and realise a self-directed project to completion.
The module encourages Fine Art students and Creative Arts students to draw on their unique skills, expertise and experiences across media and disciplines gained from their chosen module options.
Aims
The aim of this module is to enable students to develop and realise a self-directed creative project that explores a thematic focus through research, experimentation, and reflective practice.
Content
This module comprises weekly seminars and workshops exploring methods, materials, conceptual and critical debates common to the historical and contemporary contexts of art practice. A theme set by the module coordinator provides a unifying focus for the syllabus and guides students’ creative exploration.
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | Where appropriate students will engage with number in relation to developing their projects, their presentations, their research and their exhibition. |
| Communication | This module encourages and includes weekly group communication in workshops, presentations and group tutorials. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | This will take place continually throughout the suite of 6 modules, taught through lectures/ seminars, workshops, presentations and individual tutorials. |
| Information Technology | Practically in relation to completing powerpoint presentations and digital portfolio submitted for assessment |
| Personal Development and Career planning | This will take place continually throughout the suite of 6 modules, taught through lectures/ seminars, workshops, presentations and individual tutorials. |
| Problem solving | Creative approaches to problem solving include identifying personal/professional/creative strengths and weaknesses, workshop designing, workshop management, project management, tailoring self-evaluation to a given specification and staging and installing a completed project |
| Research skills | Students undertake artist research relevant to their self-directed project throughout the semester |
| Subject Specific Skills | Students will gain specific knowledge of their practice and the context for their practice |
| Team work | In group workshops and when engaging critically with student presentations, providing informal oral and written feedback |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6