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- 4]

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 1-4]
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 1-4]

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 available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

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

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

Regular 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.
Development, through tutorials and independent learning, and the undertaking of a placement which will inform project understanding and development.

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 requirments.

The module provides the frame work for development of your project as outlined in your Learning Agreement and amended in the light of learning and knowledge gained in the preceding Negotiated Project 1 module. You will consolidate a working process and develop any cross-disciplinary work you are doing relating to project aims and objectives developed. It will also allow for revision of your project and Learning Agreement at the end of the module. You will also be introduced to any new workshops identified in your amended Learning Agreement including all necessary health and safety requirements associated with them.

You will continue to produce and refine your project work with relevant research supported by regular tutorials and seminars. Again you will be required to present what you do to staff, including your Academic Advisor, your subject mentors and peers during the module. Aims and objectives can be amended in response to critical analysis from staff, peers or any external professional related to a placement undertaken.

Your project Logbook will be developed to conclusion during this module using any recent work and conclusions drawn to inform your proposal for the Masters Project. By the end of the module you will have created a credible infrastructure of practical work, research and critical/theoretical understanding from which to create a cohesive body of work at a level of competence to be shown in a professional context.