Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25
None
Available as a Free Standing Elective
No
Aims
To prepare students for the workplace by fostering team-working skills based on a common collaborative industry project.To introduce students to intensive group project work in collaboration with students from other disciplines or with other skill-sets and expertise. Students work on a project typically based on an idea from an industrial partner.To enable students to present themselves as industry professionals and to forge interdisciplinary networks.To enable students to plan, prepare, conduct and write up their own original collaborative project, putting project design methods, research techniques and approaches into practice and reflecting critically on and evaluating their project and the research/creation they have conducted.To learn how to organise, gather and analyse data, in preparation for project design, elaboration and evaluation.To nurture critical, reflective and communication skills in creative design and activities.To nurture problem solving in stressful industry situationsTo enable students to balance independent working and planning with team discussions and processes.
Intended Learning Outcomes
recognise and critically assess issues, methods, approaches, perspectives and debates concerning the creative industry: 1,2plan, prepare, conduct, present and write up an original collaborative project, putting methods, research techniques and approaches into practice reflecting on and evaluating own research/creation carried out: 1,2engage with the systematic organisation and analysis of project data: 1,2evaluate and apply abstract ideas in resolving problems ethically: 2work productively as individuals and as a member of a group exercising initiative and personal responsibility;: 1,2evaluate their own individual and group performance while tackling a creative task: 2make decisions and plan actively in uncertain and unpredictable contexts while working on a collaborative project: 2
24 hours of contact time, to include: lectures, seminars, and tutorials:10 hours lectures 6 hours seminars/presentations8 hours small group tutorials Independent study:20 hours of reflection and consolidation of lecture, workshop and individual supervision content and independent or group study work. 36 hours of practical work to carry out project tasks, familiarisation with project/group, reflection of creative process, preparation of group pitch.70 hours of design, preparation, elaboration of the creative project.
Description of Module Assessment
1: Presentation weighted 30%Project Pitch - Collaborative project presentationStudents, in groups of 4 will give an 8-minute pitch on their project. It will emulate a presentation to a prospective client to persuade them to work with you. The pitch should demonstrate the group¿s ability to execute the project to a high standard. Students will receive a collective mark for this assignment. The module tutor will ensure fairness and inclusivity in groupwork by being flexible with group allocations and building in contingencies, such as the ability to change groups. The module marks will be moderated in line with School procedures.
2: Portfolio weighted 70%Submission of a portfolio containing ideas, processes and final product + reflective evaluation of the projectThe portfolio will contain: 1) Student¿s final group product/project (collective mark); 2) A group 2000 word report reflecting on the ideas, processes, evolution of the project from beginning to end. This should reflect independent processes inside a group project framework. This should be done as a group (collective and individual mark); and 3) an individual 1000-word reflective evaluation of the project (final product + process): strengths/ weaknesses / evaluation of individual role, group dynamics and lessons learnt (individual mark). The module tutor will ensure fairness and inclusivity in groupwork by being flexible with group allocations and building in contingencies, such as the ability to change groups. The module marks will be moderated in line with School procedures.