Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Plan, manage and bring a substantial studio based research project to resolution

2. develop an experimental and analytical methodology  

3. Critically engage with relevant historical and theoretical debates

4. Evaluate  their own work and the work of others 

5. articulate an investigation's key concerns and contextual framework

Other Information

The progressive outcomes of the studio practice based courses are assessed by periodic critique plus mid-review sessions and end-of-semester presentation to an assessment panel. Critique sessions will provide advice on work in progress in response to approved projects, the mid-semester reviews will provide indicative advice on a student's achievement against the criteria, and the end of semester presentation will assess the final outcomes against the agreed requirements of course projects.

Indicative Assessment

Practice-led research proposal: 10% - [LO 1,2] (due week 2, or end of week 1 of intensive mode), [1800 - 2400 weds]

Studio Practice Project: 70% - (due week 15, or end of intensive mode period) [LO 1,2,3]

Studio Journal and critical reflection: 20% - [LO 4, 5] (due week 15, or 3 weeks after intensice mode period) (reflection: 2400 - 3000wds)

The Critical Reflection analyses and evaluates the project and relates it to its contextual framework.

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Workload

Three hundred and ninety hours in total. Studio Practice courses are conducted at the School of Art in the relevant Workshop studios, or at other locations by agreement between the student and the Course Convenor. Students are expected to spend up to 12 hours per week undertaking the approved Studio Practice project and attend relevant seminars and critiques as specified in each Workshop. Students are also expected to spend up to 18 hours per week on reading and research, visiting galleries or on other visual research.

*China 3 week intensive Topic

Three hundred and ninety hours in total: Forty hours of directed preparatory reading and preparation, fourteen 7-hour days attendance at intensive workshop classes [98hrs] and 7 hours independent in-country study and 245 hours of independent private study and studio research.

Assumed Knowledge

Students are expected to have competence in the processes and techniques of the Workshop in which their project is situated, and a familiarity with Workshop tools and equipment.

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