Module notices

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What is this module?

This module builds on the learning experience you have already gained from your professional practice and in semester one. It requires you to engage fully with contemporary, innovative ideas within your specialism, in order to interrogate, and expand further, the conceptual and creative elements of your own practice.

In order to maximise the time spent on your concept development, there will be no formal lectures. Instead, emphasis will be on tutor-supported, self-initiated practice within a context of openness to constructive criticism from your peers and tutor.

What will we do in this module?

In this module, you will build on, and expand, your previous knowledge and practical experience. It is concerned with testing and progressing creative media practice with the aim of confirming direction for the your overall professional practice. There will be an emphasis on evaluation and analyses, risk taking and the consideration of creative failure as a constructive experience – a means of identifying creative objectives.

Effective communication, originality, and professional integrity are important considerations in current digital media practice.  You will be required to engage in the analysis of your own work and reflect on your own processes of thinking, and you will present your concepts to your colleagues for feedback and guidance. Work is produced with the intention of an engagement with the audience. As such, you are encouraged to create work that is commensurate with contemporary professional and creative practice.

Weekly timetable (indicative only)

Week 01, beginning 04.02.13

Short session. Introduction to the module. What will we be doing in this module?

Week 02, beginning 11.02.13

Student presentations: discuss the work of a practitioner whose practice aligns with your own. Compare this with a practice that alienates you.

Week 03, beginning 18.02.13

Primary concept development. Presentation of your initial concept for your project. Tutor and peer feedback.

Week 04, beginning 25.02.13

Individual tutorials: you will be given a time. You don’t have to attend the whole module session, only the time you’ve been allocated.

Week 05, beginning 04.03.13

Study session and tutorials by arrangement.

Week 06, beginning 11.03.13

Intermediate development. Presentation of the work to date on your project. This is an intermediate stage of your project development. Tutor and peer feedback.

Week 07, beginning 18.03.13

Digital Arts Directed Study Week and CareersFest: students to attend CareersFest sessions and arrange tutorials as required

Week 08, 08.04.13

Individual tutorials: you will be given a time. You don’t have to attend the whole module session, only the time you’ve been allocated.

Week 09, beginning 15.04.13

Study session and tutorials by arrangement.

Week 10, beginning 22.04.13

Final development. Presentation of the work to date on your project. This is an intermediate stage of your project development. Tutor and peer feedback.  

Week 11, beginning 29.04.13

Peer assessment

Week 12, beginning 06.05.13

Final tutorials by appointment, following peer assessment.

Week 13, beginning 13.05.13
Submission of finished assignment and critical statement.

Week 14, beginning 20.05.13

Assessment and feedback

Learning outcomes you should achieve

On successful completion of this module, you should be able to:

1)  demonstrate an emerging thematic core to your creative practice; 

2)  make evident an engagement with, and commitment to, an appropriate visual or aural  language;

3)  produce a range of work that reflects informed decision making;

4)  demonstrate an awareness of pertinent current issues and debates to help locate your practice within a contemporary forum;

5)  employ the necessary technical skills and expertise to realise your ideas;

6)  work both independently and as part of a team.

The Assignment and hand-in date

A practical project submission, with a 2,000 word critical statement. In this, you will develop a body of work that demonstrates conspicuous originality, critical resolution, professional competence and a distinctive personal identity.

You will be required to give an oral presentation that outlines the key objectives of, and context for, your creative digital media practice. 

All assignment work must be submitted on a CD/DVD or via a web link. The critical statement should be in Word format.  .

Hand in:

Do not hand your assignment CD/DVD to the module tutor on the day of submission. This is the usual day of the module session. This is:

Friday 31st May.

Instead, place your disk in a plastic sleeve with the cover sheet with the bar code (download this from SOLE). Seal it and submit it to the drop in point at Bredon. In this way, you will have proof of hand in. Note that assignments that miss the submission deadline will score only a maximum of a basic pass. After five days, late submissions will score an automatic fail! You will then have to re-take the entire module. 

Please ensure that your disk, and files, can be opened on a Digital Arts Centre computer. If we cannot open your file, you will score an automatic fail! 

Mitigating circumstances:

If, for good reason, you think you will not be able to submit in time, let the module tutor know immediately. You might be eligible for mitigating circumstances.

Attendance

If, for some unavoidable reason, you are unable to attend a scheduled session, you must send an email to ihcastudentabsence@worc.ac.uk, and the module tutor, and make arrangements to catch up on any work that has been missed. 

 

Non-attendance may significantly affect your ability successfully to complete the module.

Reading list and learning resources

These will depend on your specific area of investigation, in discussion with your module tutor. You are expected to make reference to material in books, journals, websites and other sources in your critical statement.