As appropriate to your individual proposal and identified in the Learning Agreement.

Students are expected to take advantage of the extensive library facilites available within the University; keeping abreast of current developments through appropriate peridoicals and being aware of the work of major practitioners in their subject.

Negotiated access to studios and workshop facilities and technical support appropriate to the representational resources you employ.
Slide Projection facilities and suitable accommodation for the presentation of work.
Access to library and slide library.

Non-specialist computing facilities for email, internet access, word processing, database, spreadsheet and basic presentations will be available through LLRS/ITS facilities on campus, not from within the School itself - the exception being the School's Student Browsers based in studios which will support email and internet access.

Specialist skills for Art and Design modules are delivered, at the appropriate level, within dedicated workshop units. These skills packages have been developed to be offered to all students across awards to enhance and develop their abilities and also to underpin workshop use with the necessary health and safety training.

The blackboard virtual learning environment will be availabel (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

This module provides the framework for initiation of your project as outlined in your Learning Agreement. It will help to establish a working process, across disciplines if appropriate, and begin to test ideas relating to project aims and objectives set by you in your Learning Agreement. It will also allow for revision of your project and Learning Agreement.

You will execute a body of project work and relevant research supported by regular tutorials and seminars. You will be required to present what you do in your project to staff, including your Academic Advisor, your subject mentors and peers at the beginning and end of the module and revise aims and objectives in response to critical analysis and your developing thoughts.

A Project Logbook will be produced to accompany your main project. It will document your work, research, thoughts and critical analysis of what you are doing. It will provide evidence that your study is relating to your set aims and objectives. It should also include analysis of the relationship between what you learn in your option modules and your main project work done in this and the next project module. The Project Logbook can take a number of forms including portfolio, written diary or other areas of visual/audio presentation.

You will also be introduced to the specific workshop/studio/learning methodologies and protocols used in the appropriate areas and workshops as identified in your Learning Agreement including all necessary health and safety requirements.

Portfolio to be negotiated with the supervisor will consist of:-

Coursework (100%)
The exact nature and content being identified by the student, with appropriate staff help, in the Learning Agreement. It will probably take the form of experimental and other practical work relating to artefacts and images plus associated research that underpins the project. {Learning Outcomes 1- 3]

OR

Coursework (75%)
The exact nature and content being identified by the student, with appropriate staff help, in the Learning Agreement. It will probably take the form of experimental and other practical work relating to artefacts and images plus associated research that underpins the project. {Learning Outcomes 1-3]
AND
Project Logbook
(25%) This should demonstrate the use of an appropriate logbook form and set out your project ideas in relation to your aims and objectives. It should identify your practical and research methods and demonstrate how you are using them to inform your project. It should also begin to evidence your ability to critically evaluate, over a period of time, your ideas and concerns. [Learning Outcomes 1-3]

The module will employ a range of learning strategies, including:

Tutor or student led tutorials addressing issues and concerns pertinent to the development of the individual project. These will be timetabled between the student, the Academic Advisor and Subject Mentors. Dates of events will be included in the individual Learning Agreements.
Group seminars focusing on the work, and associated research, of a range of students generated within the module.
Workshop training including health and safety issues.

In practice-based modules, appropriate student supervision beyond the stated contact learning hours is determined by the number of students enrolled on the module per semester, and will be in accordance with current health and safety requirements.