Lecture and seminar group work
Researching and information gathering
Developing self promotion strategies
Practising professional presentations of work
Interview practice and personal presentation
Tutorials with project supervisors

This module seeks to prepare you for entry into the design profession or postgraduate study, and aims to develop your awareness of the range of career and postgraduate opportunities available. You will be able to make realistic, well informed decisions in relation to your future career intentions,and will develop your ability to cope with the transition from undergraduate study to the next stage in your career. Topics will include the jobs market and employment opportunities, interview techniques, responding to job advertisements, CV preparation, personal promotion, professional presentation of work and the development of contacts. Enterprise issues such as workshops, grants and bids to appropriate organisations will also be included together with funding applications processes.

In addition to this you will produce a thoroughly researched report in which you describe, reflect upon and evaluate the research and processes which you have undertaken in your final year studio project/s. The emphasis will be on reflection and critical analysis. It will be necessary to identify and reflect upon the following areas: contemporary practice including user research, design processes and the influence of practitioners in your specialist area.

You will develop an understanding of your own place in contemporary practice in your area of study and the broad context in which your design work will operate.

You will present for assessment a body of work as outlined in the module information pack. This is likely to include:

Self-promotional material, such as business cards, portfolio, etc. [Learning Outcome 3].
Career action plan [Learning Outcomes 1,2].
Designed CV [Learning Outcome 3].
Presentation Sumarising your research and career planning [Learning Outcome 2,3]
Folders scontaining research material relating to your future profesional practice and career planning [Learning Outcomes 1,2]

Specialist workshop facilities, as appropriate
Library and slide library
Word-processing facilities
Internet access
Data projection facilities

Students will determine their own reading list appropriate to their personal proposal of work, with staff guidance. Students are expected to take advantage of the extensive library facilities within the University, keeping abreast of current developments within the field of ceramics through appropriate periodicals.
a-n magazine ISSN 02613425
a-n web http://.www.a-n.co.uk
Crafts. ISSN0306-610X
Crafts council http://.www.craftscouncil.org.uk
Arts Council http://. www.artscouncil.org.uk
Setting up a Workshop. Basic Buisiness for Craftspeople Crafts Council ed. Price, 1997 ISBN 090379859X
The Persistence of Craft The Applied Arts Today Rutgers University Press 2003 (ed) Paul Greenhalg ISBN0813532647