COURSE IN DEPTH
Modules
In order to complete this course you must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 180 credits):
Design Visualisation
20 credits
This module explores an iterative-design-centred approach to prototyping design artefacts within a contextual setting. This technique is an innovative attempt to combine conventional science and technology with which would enhance the user’s mental and physical delight, aid comfort, and interaction with products or space. In creating this artefact, you will define alternative strategies relating to the construction and deconstruction of design ideas, mechanisms, and processes as part of a skills acquisition towards the learners own design practice.
Design Realisation
40 credits
This module provides you with the opportunities to engage at an advanced level with the perspectives of commercial markets, design processes and models of design management. This inter-related module will be defined by using a combination of theoretical and practical analysis applied to the evolution of contextually specific design sectors. In doing this, you will define alternative theorems and strategies relating to the construction and deconstruction of design ideas, mechanisms, and processes as part of the student’s own design practice.
Major Project
60 credits
The purpose of the module is to enable you to undertake a sustained, in-depth and theoretically informed research project exploring an area that is of personal interest to you. It is important that we can support you appropriately, so you will be guided towards choosing a research topic which is relevant to your discipline and in which your lecturers have expertise. The outcome may take the form of a written dissertation or a practical outcome with accompanying reflective, critical and contextual material. The main consideration when choosing your topic is that it must be relevant to your programme and you should consider the relevance of this topic to your future academic or professional development.
Co.LAB
20 credits
The module is an opportunity to learn and critically reflect on the skills of collaboration. Collaboration is a vital employability skill within the Creative Industries and this module allows you to develop these skills, making use of University facilities, with the support of academic staff. Within this module framework, several kinds of collaborative opportunities are available. Your supervisor may set you a predetermined live project, to enable you to work with other students in a way that is appropriate to your subject area; or there may be opportunities for you to collaborate with staff on research projects. In all cases, you must apply your subject skills to a project which will be agreed in advance with your supervisor.
Competition
40 credits
The module supports the advancement of your professional standing, through engagement with externally generated briefs and ascribed parameters. It will develop your critical awareness of contemporary practice and advance your subject knowledge. You will be required to demonstrate self-direction and originality in undertaking, solving problems and act autonomously in planning and implementing solutions at a professional level.
